'I Passed Over Difficult Mountains': Studies on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Mario Liverani

Table of Contents\nPrefazione\nAlaura / Bonechi: “The Heroic Age of Assyriology: ”An Unpublished Manuscript of Archibald H. Sayce\rat The Queen’s College, Oxford\nCiampini: In Search of Meaning:\rRamesses II in his Court of the Luxor Temple\nCohen: Three Amarna Notes:\rScribal Training, Scribal Hands and Tablet Provenance\nd\'Alfonso: City-States, Canton States, Monarchy and Aristocracy: The Political Landscape of the Early Iron Age in\rCentral Anatolia within the Context of the Eastern Mediterranean (11th–9th century BCE)\nde Martino: The Materiality of the Cuneiform Tablets\rand the Puzzle of the Hittite Historical Geography\nDi Filippo: The “Eastern Turkey in Asia”:\rA Digital Edition of the Map Series IDWO 1522\ndi Lernia: Archaeology in the Sahara:\rBefore and after the “Arab Spring”\nFales: Factions, Fictions and Frictions:\rAssurbanipal’s Letters to the Babylonian Citizens\nMarazzi / Bolatti Guzzo: Some Reflections on the Nişantaş Inscription\rand Related Issues\nMatthiae: Adapa at Khorsabad:\rInterpreting the “Grand Royal Emblem”\nMora: Barley and Sheep in Kululu\r(Central Anatolia, late 8th century BC)\nMori: The “Fields of the Town”:\rOn the Shape of Public Land in Late Bronze Age Ekalte\nNadali: Different Degrees of Empathy:\rOn the Mobility of Images in Ancient Mesopotamia\nPinnock: Some Thought about the Tell Halaf Reliefs: A Neo-Syrian Cycle of Carvings between\rTradition and Innovation\nPonchia /  Lonfranchi: Peering through the Door: A Note on the Functions and Relations of the atû\rin Neo-Assyrian Society\nPongratz-Leisten: Myth and Politics Continued: The Ideological Discourse of Lagash and Ebla\ron a Cultural Continuum\nVerderame: “Canine Instincts and Monkeys’ Features”: Animal and Demonic Traits in the Construction\rof “Otherness” in Sumerian Literature\nVita / Epinel: Glosses in three El-Amarna Letters\r(EA 107, 108 and 124)\nvon Dassow:\rOriental Despotism, the Enlightenment’s Evil Twin\nZaccagnini: Ištēnūtu, tāpalu and ṣimittu:\rAccounting and Material Culture in the Near East\nLeere Seite