From “Kingship in Heaven” to King Lists: Syro-Anatolian Courts and the History of the World

MR Bachvarova - Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2012 - brill.com
I examine the literary and conceptual background of a Hurro-Hittite ritual calling on divinized
royal ancestors (d šarrena), characters from Hurro-Hittite song, members of the Sargonic …

[PDF][PDF] Era of the living dead: Funerary praxis and symbol in third millennium BC Syria

GM Schwartz - P. Pfälzner, H. Niehr, E. Pernicka, & A. Wissing (Eds.), 2012 - academia.edu
As Colin Renfrew has remarked, most archaeological discussions of burial that venture
beyond simple description tend to center on social relations–issues of prestige, social …

Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records

G Rubio, N Brisch, P Goedegebuure, M Hilgert, A Kuhrt… - degruyter.com
At the origin of the studies in this volume is the positive answer which I gave to Paolo
Matthiae thirty-nine years ago, when he asked me, his colleague at the University of Rome …