Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 57th Rencontre Assyriologique International at Rome, 4-8 July 2011

Part 1: Opening Lectures
Stefan M. Maul: Rückwärts schauend in die Zukunft: 
Utopien des Alten Orients
Claus Wilcke: Law and Literature in the Third Millennium B.C.
J. D. Hawkins: The Soul in the Stele?

Part 2: Papers
Dina Katz: Myth and Ritual through Tradition and Innovation
Petr Charvát: A Tale of Twin Cities: Archaeology and the Sumerian King List
Jesús Gil Fuensanta and Eduardo Crivelli: Where are the Uruk Necropoles? Regional Innovation or Change in Tradition for Northern Mesopotamia
Giacomo Benati: Changes Through Time: The Pit F Sequence at Ur Revisited
Rick Hauser: Reading Figurines from Ancient Urkeš (2450 B.C.E.): A New Way of Measuring Archaeological Artifacts, with Implications for Historical Linguistics
Rita Dolce: Wooden Carvings of Ebla: Some Open Questions
Marco Ramazzotti: The Aesthetic Lexicon of Ebla’s Composite Art during the Age of the Archives: An Innovative Visual Representation of Words and Concepts in Early Dynastic Image Technology
Alessandro Roccati: DUGURASU = rw-ḥȝwt
Salvatore F. Monaco: More on Pre-Sargonic Umma
Angela Greco: Professional Figures and Administrative Roles in the Garden (ĝeškiri6) Management of Ur III Ĝirsu
Luděk Vacín: Tradition and Innovation in Šulgi’s Concept of Divine Kingship
Manuel Ceccarelli: Bemerkungen zur Entwicklung der Beschwörungen des Marduk-Ea-Typs: Die Rolle Enlils
Herbert B. Huffmon: Prophecy in the Mari Texts as an Innovative Development
Christine Proust: Mathematical Lists: From Archiving to Innovation
Frauke Weiershäuser: Die lexikalische Serie á=idu
Krzysztof Ulanowski: The Rituals of Power: The Akkadian Tradition in Neo-Assyrian Policy
Melanie Groß: Innovation and Tradition within the Sphere of Neo-Assyrian Officialdom
Nicolas Gillmann: Tradition and Innovation in the Neo-Assyrian Reliefs
Fabrice De Backer: Une Armure Expérimentale du Premier Millénaire av. J.-C.
Paola Poli: A Group of Seals and Seal Impressions from the Neo-Assyrian Colony Tell Masaikh-
Kar-Assurnasirpal with More Ancient Motifs
Jürgen Lorenz: Spätbabylonische Urkunden: Original, Kopie, Abschrift
Daniel Bodi: Traditional Claims of an Illustrious Ancestor in Craftsmanship and in Wisdom
Parsa Daneshmand: New Phraseology and Literary Style in the Babylonian Version of the Achaemenid Inscriptions
Anne Löhnert: Aspects of Royal Authority and Local Competence: A Perspective from Nuzi
Paola Negri Scafa: Continuity and Discontinuity in a Nuzi Scribal Family
Dave Deuel: Mission at Arrapḫa
Alessio Palmisano: Geopolitical Patterns and Connectivity in the Upper Khabur Valley in the Middle Bronze Age
Maurizio Viano: Writing Sumerian in the West
Alvise Matessi: Territorial Administration in Alalaḫ during Level IV
H. Craig Melchert: Reciprocity and Commerce in Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia
Andrej V. Sideltsev: Hittite Clitic Doubling as an Innovative Category: Its Origin
M. E. Balza and C. Mora: Memory and Tradition of the Hittite Empire in the post-Hittite Period
Tommaso De Vincenzi: Fortifications and Arming as Analytical Elements for a Social-Policy Evolution in Anatolia in the Early Bronze Age
Pavel Čech: Amurru in der königlichen Ideologie und Tradition: von Ebla bis Israel
Christos G. Karagiannis: The Assyrian Tree of Life and the Jewish Menorah
Luigi Turri: The Ponderal Systems of Qatna
Olivier Rouault and Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault: French Excavations in Qasr Shemamok-Kilizu (Iraqi Kurdistan): The First Mission (2011)
Ann Shafer: The Present in Our Past: The Assyrian Rock Reliefs at Nahr El-Kalb and the Lessons of Tradition
Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Jordi Vidal: Oriental Studies and Fascism in Spain

Part 3: Workshop: From Parents to Children
Alfonso Archi: From Parents to Children–Ebla
Steven J. Garfinkle: Family Firms in the Ur III Period
M. Tanret: A Chip Off the Old Block: The Transmission of Titles and Offices within the Family in Old Babylonian Sippar
Jeanette C. Fincke: The Tradition of Professions within Families at Nuzi
Wilfred van Soldt: Crafts and Craftsmen at Ugarit
Giulia Torri: Hereditary Transmission of Specialized Knowledge in Hittite Anatolia: The Case of the Scribal Families of the Empire Period
Heather D. Baker: The Transmission of Offices, Professions, and Crafts within the Family in the Neo-Assyrian Period
M. Jursa: Families, Officialdom, and Families of Royal Officials in Chaldean and Achaemenid Babylonia