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Session 3: Native natures …
4:45 - 5:15pm
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Abstract The writing of history is by definition conditioned by the sources available. The history of Upper Mesopotamia is no exception to this rule. The various political groupings that developed there are documented by sources whose nature varies …
5:00 - 5:30pm
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Abstract When the Émar site was discovered in 1972, specialists hoped to discover the city mentioned in the Mari sources in the Amorite period, and thus document a new major Middle Bronze urban center on the Euphrates. However, after six excavation …
4:30 - 5:00pm
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Session 3: Native natures …
3:45 - 4:15pm
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Session 2: State and politics of the living world …
3:00 - 3:30pm
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Abstract The political geography of Southwest Asia was transformed by non-state actors during the second quarter of the second millennium BC. These were often mercenaries or militias engaged beyond the borders of established territorial states, who rarely …
3:30 - 4:00pm
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Session 2: State and politics of the living world …
2:30 - 3:00pm
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Session 2: State and politics of the living world …
2:00 - 2:30pm
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Abstract In the 1990s, Mirjo Salvini published the Labarna letter and the Ḫabiru prism, providing the first glimpse into the 'Dark Age', a period in the mid-second millennium characterized by significant gaps in the historical record. Both cuneiform texts …
3:00 - 3:30pm
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Michael Doyle has been invited to the Collège de France by Professor Samantha Besson, Chair of International Law of Institutions . Michael …
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Abstract Several sources provide us with information on the early reign of Samsī-Addu before the capture of Mari, such as the eponymous Chronicles of Mari , the Assyrian King List ( AKL ) or a few rare documents from Aššur, Tell Leilan (the ancient …
2:30 - 3:00pm