Bramanti Armando, Kraus Nicholas L., Notizia Palmiro (Eds.). Current Research in Early Mesopotamian Studies: Workshop Organized at the 65th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Paris 2019

Zaphon, 2021. — 268 p. — (dubsar: Altorientalistische Publikationen/Publications on the Ancient Near East 21).The present volume brings together articles concerned with diverse aspects of the Early Mesopotamian documentation – i.e. texts dating to the Archaic, Early Dynastic (ED I–II, IIIa, IIIb), Sargonic, and Gutian periods, and extending geographically to include Ebla and its royal archives. Early Mesopotamia has recently attracted the attention of Assyriologists thanks to the enormous amount of new epigraphic material – mostly clay tablets – which appeared in the last decades. As a result of the sudden publication of thousands of texts, the Archaic, Early Dynastic, Sargonic, and post-Sargonic periods have assumed new relevance in the general landscape of research on third millennium Mesopotamia, which was until recently dominated by the Neo-Sumerian studies. Among others J. N. Postgate re-investigates the Dynamic Mode of Gudea’s Sumerian; N. Rudik continues her studies on Early Dynastic incantations from the Schøyen collection; G. Benati & C. Lecompte take into consideration the political institutions in Early Dynastic Ur and X. Wang those of the city of Uruk. The volume is supplemented by extensive indices.Armando Bramanti / Nicholas L. Kraus / Palmiro Notizia: Early Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium CE: The Last Two Decades of Research (2000–2020)
Kathryn Kelley: More Than a Woman? On Proto-cuneiform SAL and the Archaic “Tribute List”
Xianhua Wang: How Many Priest-Kings in Town? A Glance at the Political Structure of the City of Uruk at the Dawn of Civilization
Giacomo Benati / Camille Lecompte: The Scale and Extent of Political Institutions in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia: The Case of Archaic Ur
Nadezda Rudik: Herumtreibende Kinder, bewaffnete Kälber und Götter in Aufruhr: die frühdynastischen Beschwörungen aus CUSAS 32
Alfonso Archi: Ebla(itologists) and Sumer(ologists): Reasons for a Dialogue
Marco Bonechi / Ryan Winters: Ebla through Huwawa’s Gaze: Inner and Outer Perspectives on Early Syria, between Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Anatolia
Nicholas L. Kraus: An Addition to the Early Dynastic Lexical Tradition: Early Dynastic Personal Names A (Word List Z)
Armando Bramanti: The Making of a Sign List: Toward a Paleography of Early Dynastic Umma
J. Nicholas Postgate: More Points of Grammar in Gudea: Resuscitating the Dynamic Mode