N.A.B.U. 2023 n° 1 (mars) likely that the names are reflections of the diffusion of the Isis cult outside Egypt.4) The goddess Isis had sanctuaries around the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods (QUIRKE 1992, 175-176),5) including in the eastern, Seleucid empire (MA 2014). Having said that, it is certainly too rash to argue, as ZADOK seems to do,6) that all attestations of “Egyptian” hybrid names in Mesopotamian documents speak of religion and not of ethnicity, not least since there are several examples of such hybrid names as early as in Neo-Assyrian times and texts,7) that is, long before the heyday of the diffused Isis cult between the third century BCE and the third century AD (QUIRKE 1992, 177). Notes 1. Archival context and the subject matter of the text are other aspects to take notice of when evaluating whether an “Egyptian context” is present or not. 2. Only two kings can come into question, namely Seleucus I (312-281 BCE) and II (246-225 BCE). 3. The names in question are Marduk-šumu-iddina, Nabȗ-nāṣir, and Bēl-zēru-ibni. The deities Zababa(?), Belit, and Shamash, as well as the temples Esabad(?) and Esagila, are mentioned. 4. Of course, the individuals in question may be viewed as having had a construed Egyptian ethnicity, in their adopting parts of Egyptian culture (as interpreted by the western Asian Isis community). 5. By 200 BCE, Egyptian sanctuaries existed as such sites as Salamis, Eretria, Priene, and Delos, and the cults of Egyptian deities spread to Sicily, southern Italy, and Iberia in the following two centuries, with a temple dedicated to Isis built at Pompeii in the mid-second century BCE (QUIRKE 1992, 175). 6. At least if picking up on the first part of the quote, which seems to convey the idea that the hybrid names in question cannot be regarded as Egyptian, regardless of time period. 7. Note, for example, Abī-Ḫūru (Semitic+Egyptian DN Horus) in a text (ND 2306) from Kalhu and 687 BCE, and Šumma-Ēši (Akkadian+Egyptian DN Isis) in a text (StAT 2 37) from Assur and 666 BCE. For a study on African individuals and groups in Neo-Assyrian texts, see KARLSSON 2022, notably pp. 14 and 90. References KARLSSON, M., 2022, From the Nile to the Tigris: African Individuals and Groups in Texts from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, SAAS 31, Helsinki and Philadelphia. MA, J., 2014, “Les cultes isiaques en l’espace seleucide”, in L. BRICAULT and M.J. VERSLUYS (eds.), Power, Politics, and the Cults of Isis, Leiden, p. 116-134. ND = prefix of excavation numbers from the British excavations at Nimrud. QUIRKE, S., 1992, Ancient Egyptian Religion, London. StAT 2 = DONBAZ, V. and PARPOLA, S., 2001, Neo-Assyrian Legal Texts in Istanbul, Saarbrücken. VS 6 = UNGNAD, A., 1908, Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler der Königlichen Museen zu Berlin VI: Neubabylonische Kontrakte, Leipzig. VS 15 = SCHROEDER, O., 1916, Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler der Königlichen Museen zu Berlin XV: Kontrakte der Seleukidenzeit aus Warka, Leipzig. ZA 3 = STRASSMAIER, J.N., 1888, “Arsaciden-Inschriften”, ZA 3: 129-158. ZADOK, R., 1977, On West Semites in Babylonia during the Chaldean and Achaemenid Periods, Jerusalem. ZADOK, R., 1992, “Egyptians in Babylonia and Elam during the 1st Millennium B.C.”, Lingua Aegyptia 2: 139-146. Mattias KARLSSON <mattias.karlsson@lingfil.uu.se> VIE DE L'ASSYRIOLOGIE 33) Parution d'un Que Sais-je ? sur l'assyriologie — Dans cette collection de livres synthétiques sur des sujets très variés (en 128 pages), vient de paraître : D. Charpin, L'assyriologie, collection « Que sais-je ? » n°4239, Paris, 2023 (http://www.quesaisje.com/content/LAssyriologie). Il s'agit d'une présentation de l'histoire des recherches et de l'état actuel de cette spécialité, destinée avant tout aux étudiants et au public intéressé, parsemée de réflexions suscitées par un demi-siècle de travail ; à ce titre, il peut également retenir l'attention des assyriologues professionnels. 34) Fourth meeting of the Giovani Ricercatori Italiani di Storia e Filologia del Vicino Oriente Antico (GRISeF-VOA) – Ricerche in corso — On December 2nd, 2022, took place online the 4th meeting of the Giovani Ricercatori Italiani di Storia e Filologia del Vicino Oriente Antico (GRISeF-VOA). The event – 74 – N.A.B.U. 2023 n° 1 (mars) was co-organized by the present authors Beatrice Baragli (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Armando Bramanti (at that time CCHS – CSIC, Madrid) and aimed at offering a platform for early career Italian scholars in Ancient Near Eastern History and Philology to present their ongoing research and endeavors. The initiative was established in 2017 from the joined effort of Silvia Salin and Francesca Minen, co-founders of the GRISeF-VOA (at that time GRIA, Giovani Ricercatori Italiani di Assiriologia) and rapidly caught the interest of a great number of early career—i.e. pre-tenure track—scholars, mostly PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers, but occasionally also advanced MA students. A first meeting took place in March 2018 at Università di Verona (see Ponchia, S., Salin, S., Minen, F. 2018. First meeting of Giovani Ricercatori Italiani di Assiriologia (GRIA), NABU 2018/36), followed by a second meeting in February 2019 at Sapienza – Università di Roma (see the report of L. Bertolini, one of the organizers, on the IAA magazine Mar Shiprim of 1/10/2019 at https://tinyurl.com/mr3ud9ur). A third meeting was scheduled for March 2020 at Università di Verona but was unfortunately cancelled a few days before the date due to the pandemic of COVID-19. More information on the history of the initiative and the programs of past conferences can be found at https://griassiriologia.wordpress.com. After a sensible almost three-year hiatus the present authors revived the initiative and opted for an online format, which allowed for a remarkably well-attended meeting, in terms of both speakers and audience. The conference consisted of 18 presentations, two keynote lectures, and a workshop including talks on postdoc opportunities in Italy, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, and Israel aimed at promoting international exchange and mobility among young scholars. A grand total of 21 speakers affiliated to twelve research centers in seven different countries participated in this fourth meeting. The program encompassed five sessions on Sumer, Babylon and Assyria, Literature and Society, Anatolia, Language and Grammar; thus, covering the entire chronological and geographical range of Cuneiform Studies. The aforementioned workshop and a rich round table concluded the event. Below the reader will find a list of the participants and their presentations – more information, including the full program of the conference, is available at https://griassiriologia.wordpress.com/286-2. – Keynote lectures – Gabriella Spada (Sapienza – Università di Roma): L’importanza del tempio nell’economia dell’antica Mesopotamia: il caso dei temple loans di periodo paleo-babilonese; Elena Devecchi (Università di Torino): Riflessioni sull’uso dei sigilli nella Babilonia di epoca cassita: questioni di proprietà, identità e riconoscibilità. – Sumer – Angela Greco (Sapienza – Università di Roma): Mercanti di pesce nel terzo millennio a.C.; Edoardo Zanetti: Dalle parole ai fatti: descrivere e vivere il paesaggio idraulico nel terzo millennio a.C. in Sumer; Armando Bramanti (CCHS – CSIC, Madrid): Hidden in plain sight: evidenza di un rituale divinatorio nel terzo millennio?; Andrea Rebecca Marrocchi Savoi (Sapienza – Università di Roma): Legami d’argilla. Uno sguardo alla società di Ur III attraverso i ditilla. – Babylon and Assyria – Silvia Gabrieli: Cilicia, frontiera Assira; Letizia Savino (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): Medicina e medici ‘all’estero’; Lucrezia Menicatti (Universität Wien): Ripetizione e pensiero analogico nella letteratura divinatoria mesopotamica del primo millennio a.C.; Alessia Pilloni (Freie Universität Berlin): Babilonia e Uruk: città gemelle delle scienze celesti. Un caso studio sulla trasmissione del sapere astronomico nel periodo Tardobabilonese. – Literature and Society – Ludovica Bertolini (Charles University, Prague): Alcune considerazioni sull’uso della letteratura tradizionale sumerica nelle scuole scribali di Ugarit; Marinella Ceravolo (Sapienza – Università di Roma): Semantica, materialità e musealizzazione della pace del Vicino Oriente antico. – Anatolia – Marta Pallavidini (Freie Universität Berlin): Definire una crisi: spunti di riflessione e approccio teorico al concetto di crisi nel mondo ittita; Mariateresa Albanese (Sapienza – Università di Roma): KUB 27.42: rituale o invocazione del principe sacerdote per i sovrani?; Sasha Alessandro Volpi: Storia dei rapporti ittito-babilonesi nel Tardo Bronzo; Marco De Pietri (Università degli Studi di Pavia): Indagini sui proprietari di sigilli ittiti a iscrizione geroglifica (II millennio a.C.): raccolta di dati onomastici per un indice dei nomi e indagini prosopografiche. – Language and Grammar – Beatrice Baragli (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Verbi composti sumerici nel I millennio; Michela Piccin (North-West University, South Africa): Aspetti linguistici della persuasività in accadico: selezione di testi; Virna Fagiolo (Sapienza – Università di Roma / Università Roma Tre); Nomina actionis e nomina rei actae in ittito: il caso della derivazione nominale eteroclita; Fabio Bastici (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): Filologia e grammatica hurrita: ricerche in corso e prospettive. – 75 – N.A.B.U. 2023 n° 1 (mars) – Workshop: postdoc opportunities – Gabriella Spada (Sapienza – Università di Roma): Italy; Marta Pallavidini (Freie Universität Berlin): Germany; Armando Bramanti (CCHS – CSIC, Madrid): Spain; Sergio Alivernini (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague): Czech Republic; Beatrice Baragli (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Israel. Such meetings not only provide an opportunity to present ongoing scholarship but also promote the development of an active network of young, untenured Italian researchers working both in national and in international institutions, thus fostering the long tradition of Italian Ancient Near Eastern Studies. The present authors express their gratitude to each and every participant and attendee of the conference and pass the witness to the next generation of Italian young scholars, wishing a long and successful continuation of the GRISeF-VOA. Beatrice BARAGLI <beatrice.baragli@gmail.com> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (ISRAEL) Armando BRAMANTI <armando.bramanti@gmail.com> Universidad Complutense de Madrid (SPAIN) NOUVELLES PARA-ASSYRIOLOGIQUES Cette nouvelle rubrique permet la publication de notes très brèves (max. quelques lignes) concernant la parution d'ouvrages ou œuvres visuelles culturelles ayant un lien avec l'Assyriologie. La rédaction doit le terme « paraassyriologie » à une collègue parisienne. On attendra avec impatience son entrée dans les dictionnaires francophones. 35) Parution d'un roman sur Sennachérib — Josette Elayi vient de publier un roman intitulé Le roi qui noya Babylone aux Éditions Douro (ISBN 9782384062256). Abonnement pour un an/Subscription for one year: FRANCE NOUVEAU TARIF ! / NEW FEES! AUTRES PAYS/OTHER COUNTRIES – Par carte de crédit (et Paypal) sur la boutique en ligne de la SEPOA By credit card (and Paypal) through our online store http://sepoa.fr/?product_cat=revue-nabu 35,00 € 55,00 € – Par virement postal à l’ordre de/To Giro Account: Société pour l’Étude du Proche-Orient Ancien, 39, avenue d’Alembert, 92160 ANTONY. IBAN: FR 23 2004 1000 0114 69184V02 032 BIC: PSSTFRPPPAR – Par chèque postal ou bancaire en Euros COMPENSABLE EN FRANCE à l’ordre de/By Bank check in Euros PAYABLE IN FRANCE and made out to: Société pour l’Étude du Proche-Orient Ancien. 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