Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019): Proceedings of the 4th Berner Altorientalisches Forum (BAF), 11th-13th June 2019

• Programme of the 4th BAF, 11th-13th June 2019

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Panel GIGA.MEŠ: Techniques of digital reconstruction

• Detecting word boundaries in an undeciphered script: The Byblos syllabary

  Michael Mäder

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Panel IŠTAR: Forms of transtextual analysis

• Papyri to the rescue: reconstructing Hellenistic male-female couple relationships through papyrological documentation

  Charlotte Golay

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• nam-nar/nārūtu in the Seleucid Period: revisiting an excerpt of CT 17, pl. 18 [BM 34223+]

  Daniel Sánchez Munõz

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• Mesopotamian medical information in the divination series Šumma ālu

  Francesca Minen

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Panel HAPI: Conceptualising nature

• Hemp! Thread, cloth and a calendar

  Jeannette Boertien

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• Evolution of a social dynamic in a changing landscape: the case of Argos (Argolis, Greece) in the Mycenaean period

  Philippe Baeriswyl

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Panel HESET: Consumption and symbolism

• The “poisonous water” (mê rʾōš) in Jer 8:14 and the “bewitched water” (mê kaššāpūti) in Maqlû i 103-104: witchcraft in the book of Jeremiah

  Cristiana Conti

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• Is the Erasing of the Metal Ware in the Banquet Scene of Assurbanipal, an Aspect of the damnatio memoriae?

  Adonice-Ackad Baaklini

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• The Mountain Fortresses of Rabana-Merquly in Iraqi-Kurdistan

  Michael Brown

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• The Hittite Notion of Border. A practical view

  Adam Kryszeń

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Panel NEITH: Mobility and networks

• On the Aramaic Onomasticon in the Cuneiform Text Corpus

  Brandon Simonson

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• Ionians and Carians in an Aramaic Letter from Saqqâra: Notes for a Tentative Interpretation of NSaqPap 26

  Marco Santini

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• Onomastic interferences in Lycia: Greek reinterpretation of Lycian personal names

  Florian Réveilhac

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Panel KOTHAR: Iconographic narratives

• Mirroring the god: topic, images and word-order in the hieroglyphic Luwian inscription ALEPPO 6

  Claudia Posani

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• The Goddess on the Vezirhan Stele

  Tamás Péter Kisbali

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Panel ŠAMḪAT: Methodologies of heritage preservation/reconstruction

• Toward a Syllabary and a Sign List of the Early Dynastic Umma Region

  Armando Bramanti

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• The Materiality of Cylinder Seals

  Nicole Gäumann

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