Notizia Palmiro, Rositani Annunziata, Verderame Lorenzo (Eds.). d.Nisaba za3-mi2: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Francesco Pomponio

Zaphon, 2021. — 394 p. — (dubsar: Altorientalistische Publikationen/Publications on the Ancient Near East 19).The volume collects twenty-three essays in English, Italian, French, and German offered to the Assyriologist Francesco Pomponio (University of Messina) from pupils, friends, and colleagues on the occasion of his 70th birthday. In accordance with his scholarly interests, the contributions in the present volume cover a wide range of topics in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies and present the edition of new textual sources from third to first millennium BC Mesopotamia.Pierluigi Ciocca: Omaggio a Francesco Pomponio
Sergio Alivernini: A New Text Belonging to the Collections of the British Museum
Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo: Le dieu de Phrangissa (Chypre)
Maria Giovanna Biga: Francesco Pomponio and His Place in the History of Eblaite Studies
Noemi Borrelli: Symbolic and Economic Institutions in 3rd Millennium Southern Mesopotamia: The Household of the ereš-diĝir of Bau
Odoardo Bulgarelli: La Mesopotamia: commercio, strumenti economico-finanziari e mezzi di pagamento (fine IV – inizi II millennio a.C.)
Franco D’Agostino: Stealing Barley in Ur III: a Detective Story?
Benjamin R. Foster: When the Phoenicians Came to Cornwall
Angela Greco: Neglected Source of Prosperity: Marsh Resources and the Role of the enku in Third Millennium BC Southern Mesopotamia
Massimo Maiocchi: Current Approaches towards Ancient Near Eastern Textual Sources: Some Remarks on Contemporary Methodologies for Philological Research
Pietro Mander: Die Bedeutung des fließenden Wassers in der sumerischen Kosmologie
Gianni Marchesi: A New Manuscript of Ana ittišu II from Nimrud
Manuel Molina: Court Cases on Burglaries, Fugitives, Debts and Other Matters in Ur III Times
Salvatore F. Monaco: Meannedu, Ruler of Umma
Palmiro Notizia: Money-Lenders and Merchants from Central Babylonia: Unpublished Ur III Documents in the Yale Babylonian Collection
David I. Owen: New Sources from the Garšana and Iri-Saĝrig Archives
Sergio Ribichini: Euripide et le sacrifice humain à Carthage : notes de lecture
Annunziata Rositani: War Prisoners as Gifts of the King Rīm-Anum for Goddesses and Gods: Two New Texts
Cristina Simonetti: The River Ordeal in the Third Millennium BC
Gabriella Spada: “I Want to Break Free”: Model Contracts Recording Slave Self-Emancipation
Marten Stol: Esip tabal in Agriculture
Marcos Such-Gutiérrez: Die Berufsbezeichnung lú-igi
Lorenzo Verderame: Fashioning of Statues in Three Neo-Sumerian Unpublished Texts from Ur
Paolo Xella: Nergal in Phoenician Context