Eva Von Dassow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1439996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Von Dassow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Von Dassow |
| SIGNATURE | VON DASSOW E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Liberty, bondage and liberation in the Late Bronze Age
Free versus unfree was a fundamental axis of differentiation in ancient Near Eastern societies. Liberty was conceptualized as the power to govern oneself, free from another's domination, thus free to participate in constituting political authority. More concretely, the subject of the state was by definition free, this being the condition of obliging him for duty. Thus the relation between people and polity was predicated on liberty, not servitude…
How to Get Credit and Avoid Foreclosure in Arrapḫe
Hupshu
The Semitic word hupshu ( ḫupṯu ) denoted the free population subject to conscription, who were distinguished neither by special privation nor by privilege. It is best attested in sources from the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1550–1200 bce ), whereafter its derivatives survive in classical and modern Hebrew. The word belongs to the vocabulary of the West Semitic languages, though it is also attested in Akkadian texts and has a possible cognate in Arabic.…
Idrimi
Idrimi ruled the kingdom of Alalah, on the lower Orontes River, in the mid fifteenth century BCE. He established a new territorial state, subordinate to the king of Mittani, and a new dynasty, which endured at least through the reigns of his son Niqmepa and his grandson Ilimilimma. He is best known from his statue, through which he received cult as a deceased royal ancestor, and on which was inscribed a novella‐like retrospective tale of his care…
Maryanni
The Hurrian word maryanni was used to denote the noble class that was created during the Late Bronze Age in the Levant and upper Mesopotamia. The word was formed in Hurrian by adding the suffix ‐ nni to the Indo‐Aryan word márya , “(young) man.” The class was composed of members of high‐status families. Local kings could confer maryanni status, and this may have been the principal mechanism for forming the class; it was not a caste defined by des…
Awīlum and Muškēnum in the Age of Hammurabi
Awīlum and Muškēnum in the Age of Hammurabi
La famille dans le Proche-Orient ancien: réalités, symbolismes et images: Proceedings of the 55e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Paris
In July, 2009, the International Association for Assyriology met in Paris, France, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on the theme “La famille dans le Proche-Orient.” This volume, the proceedings of the conference, contains 53 of the papers read at the 55th annual Rencontre, including primarily papers directly connected with the theme and some on areas of related interest. The papers covered every period of Mesopotamian history, from the …
Piecing Together the Song of Release
Hurrian, Hurrians
The term Hurrian, based on the name Hurri, denotes an ancient Near Eastern language and the people who spoke it.
Alalah
The ancient city of Alalah , whose ruins are today called Tell Atchana, is located on the Orontes River about 50 km upstream from the Mediterranean coast, at the river's northerly bend through the Amuq plain.
Habiru
The term ḫabiru (pl. ḫabirū ) denoted a social category, of mutable content and character, in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Near East; it is attested during most of the second millennium BCE and, eventually, across almost all of the Near East including Egypt.
Temporality and Periodization in Ancient Near Eastern History
In this article I consider the issues of temporality and periodization in the ancient Near East under three rubrics: how modern scholars have periodized ancient Near Eastern history, how societies of the ancient Near East periodized their own history, and, more broadly, how they conceptualized the temporal dimensions of their world and mapped themselves onto time. In each case I illustrate the issue with a selection of examples, which in no way r…
Narām-Sîn of Uruk: A New King in an Old Shoebox
Archives of Alalaḫ IV in Archaeological Context
Written records, like other artifacts, were produced and used under particular circumstances that are usually reflected-if only indirectly-in the locations where they are found. However, the archaeological findspots of inscribed artifacts are often neglected in the study of the texts inscribed on them. Such has been the case with the cuneiform tablets found in C. L. Woolley's excavations at Alalaḫ. For over half a century, the Alalaḫ tablets have…
Canaanite in Cuneiform
It has become a truism that Akkadian, the principal Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, was the lingua franca of the Near East during the second millennium B.C.E. This is stated, more or less in so many words, in any number of works on the ancient Near East, which usually offer the Amarna letters, the trove of correspondence between Egypt and other states that was found at the site of Akhetaten (Tell el-Amarna), as the parade example of Akka…
Advances in Late Babylonian
In Zahl und Zeit, Michael P. Streck applies the principles and methods of descriptive linguistics to the investigation of the grammar of numbers and verb tenses in the Late Babylonian dialect of Akkadian. His systematic collection of attested forms provides the basis for equally systematic analysis and explanation of how those forms function in Late Babylonian (which is here understood to have been a living language, not merely a written one). St…
An Ur III Document and an Old Babylonian Cone at Colorado State University
On Writing the History of Southern Mesopotamia
In his book Babylonia 689-627 B.C., G. Frame provides a maximally detailed history of a specific region during a closely delimited time period, based on all available sources produced during that period or bearing on it. This review article critiques the methods used to derive the history from the sources and the conceptual framework used to apprehend the subject of the history
Text and Artifact, a Comprehensive History of the Aramaeans
Liberty, bondage and liberation in the Late Bronze Age
Free versus unfree was a fundamental axis of differentiation in ancient Near Eastern societies. Liberty was conceptualized as the power to govern oneself, free from another's domination, thus free to participate in constituting political authority. More concretely, the subject of the state was by definition free, this being the condition of obliging him for duty. Thus the relation between people and polity was predicated on liberty, not servitude…
Canaanite in Cuneiform
It has become a truism that Akkadian, the principal Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, was the lingua franca of the Near East during the second millennium B.C.E. This is stated, more or less in so many words, in any number of works on the ancient Near East, which usually offer the Amarna letters, the trove of correspondence between Egypt and other states that was found at the site of Akhetaten (Tell el-Amarna), as the parade example of Akka…
Piecing Together the Song of Release
Narām-Sîn of Uruk: A New King in an Old Shoebox
On Writing the History of Southern Mesopotamia
In his book Babylonia 689-627 B.C., G. Frame provides a maximally detailed history of a specific region during a closely delimited time period, based on all available sources produced during that period or bearing on it. This review article critiques the methods used to derive the history from the sources and the conceptual framework used to apprehend the subject of the history
Text and Artifact, a Comprehensive History of the Aramaeans
An Ur III Document and an Old Babylonian Cone at Colorado State University
Advances in Late Babylonian
In Zahl und Zeit, Michael P. Streck applies the principles and methods of descriptive linguistics to the investigation of the grammar of numbers and verb tenses in the Late Babylonian dialect of Akkadian. His systematic collection of attested forms provides the basis for equally systematic analysis and explanation of how those forms function in Late Babylonian (which is here understood to have been a living language, not merely a written one). St…
Canaanite in Cuneiform
It has become a truism that Akkadian, the principal Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, was the lingua franca of the Near East during the second millennium B.C.E. This is stated, more or less in so many words, in any number of works on the ancient Near East, which usually offer the Amarna letters, the trove of correspondence between Egypt and other states that was found at the site of Akhetaten (Tell el-Amarna), as the parade example of Akka…
Archives of Alalaḫ IV in Archaeological Context
Written records, like other artifacts, were produced and used under particular circumstances that are usually reflected-if only indirectly-in the locations where they are found. However, the archaeological findspots of inscribed artifacts are often neglected in the study of the texts inscribed on them. Such has been the case with the cuneiform tablets found in C. L. Woolley's excavations at Alalaḫ. For over half a century, the Alalaḫ tablets have…
Narām-Sîn of Uruk: A New King in an Old Shoebox
Hurrian, Hurrians
The term Hurrian, based on the name Hurri, denotes an ancient Near Eastern language and the people who spoke it.
Alalah
The ancient city of Alalah , whose ruins are today called Tell Atchana, is located on the Orontes River about 50 km upstream from the Mediterranean coast, at the river's northerly bend through the Amuq plain.
Habiru
The term ḫabiru (pl. ḫabirū ) denoted a social category, of mutable content and character, in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Near East; it is attested during most of the second millennium BCE and, eventually, across almost all of the Near East including Egypt.
Temporality and Periodization in Ancient Near Eastern History
In this article I consider the issues of temporality and periodization in the ancient Near East under three rubrics: how modern scholars have periodized ancient Near Eastern history, how societies of the ancient Near East periodized their own history, and, more broadly, how they conceptualized the temporal dimensions of their world and mapped themselves onto time. In each case I illustrate the issue with a selection of examples, which in no way r…
Piecing Together the Song of Release
Awīlum and Muškēnum in the Age of Hammurabi
Awīlum and Muškēnum in the Age of Hammurabi
La famille dans le Proche-Orient ancien: réalités, symbolismes et images: Proceedings of the 55e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Paris
In July, 2009, the International Association for Assyriology met in Paris, France, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on the theme “La famille dans le Proche-Orient.” This volume, the proceedings of the conference, contains 53 of the papers read at the 55th annual Rencontre, including primarily papers directly connected with the theme and some on areas of related interest. The papers covered every period of Mesopotamian history, from the …
Hupshu
The Semitic word hupshu ( ḫupṯu ) denoted the free population subject to conscription, who were distinguished neither by special privation nor by privilege. It is best attested in sources from the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1550–1200 bce ), whereafter its derivatives survive in classical and modern Hebrew. The word belongs to the vocabulary of the West Semitic languages, though it is also attested in Akkadian texts and has a possible cognate in Arabic.…
Idrimi
Idrimi ruled the kingdom of Alalah, on the lower Orontes River, in the mid fifteenth century BCE. He established a new territorial state, subordinate to the king of Mittani, and a new dynasty, which endured at least through the reigns of his son Niqmepa and his grandson Ilimilimma. He is best known from his statue, through which he received cult as a deceased royal ancestor, and on which was inscribed a novella‐like retrospective tale of his care…
Maryanni
The Hurrian word maryanni was used to denote the noble class that was created during the Late Bronze Age in the Levant and upper Mesopotamia. The word was formed in Hurrian by adding the suffix ‐ nni to the Indo‐Aryan word márya , “(young) man.” The class was composed of members of high‐status families. Local kings could confer maryanni status, and this may have been the principal mechanism for forming the class; it was not a caste defined by des…
Liberty, bondage and liberation in the Late Bronze Age
Free versus unfree was a fundamental axis of differentiation in ancient Near Eastern societies. Liberty was conceptualized as the power to govern oneself, free from another's domination, thus free to participate in constituting political authority. More concretely, the subject of the state was by definition free, this being the condition of obliging him for duty. Thus the relation between people and polity was predicated on liberty, not servitude…
How to Get Credit and Avoid Foreclosure in Arrapḫe
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