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Abstract The literary texts from Mari's Site K are among the oldest of the Paleo-Babylonian period, and provide valuable insights into the teaching of student scribes in the Middle Euphrates Valley, at a relatively advanced stage of their training. This …

Abstract For ocean currents with a very small aspect ratio, the geostrophic constraint (which balances pressure and the Coriolis force) is associated solely with the vertical component of Earth’s rotation. This component varies with latitude (and vanishes …

Abstract The expression " textes des repas du roi " is a historiographical construction based on a corpus of several hundred documents unearthed in the Palace of Mari ( XVIIIᵉ century BC), frequently cited and partially studied. While the formula " for …

Abstract Jean-Marie Durand's recent edition of the correspondence of the merʾûm ( grazing) chiefs, Bannum, Ašmad and Hali-hadun - to whom must be added Zakura-abum, whose letters have been published separately -, preserved in the palace of Mari and dating …

Abstract In the 18th century BC, the creation of an unprecedented territorial state covering the whole of Upper Mesopotamia was a remarkable feat. It can be attributed to a particularly charismatic and energetic man, Samsi-Addu, alias Šamši-Adad I st …

Abstract Mari, the Bible and I had our earliest conjunction in the mid-60s, long before Biblical scholarship began exploring Achaemenid linkages. In those days, giants ruled the earth, among them Albright, Noth, and de Vaux on the biblical side; Dossin & …

Abstract The first lecture will examine the circumstances surrounding the emergence of the concept of food sovereignty. Driven by the transnational peasant movement La Via Campesina in the early 1990s, the idea of food sovereignty was put forward to offer …

Abstract Crisis management has become a common approach to managing organizational complexity, even without a specific triggering event or threat preceding it. This reliance on crisis management to coordinate increasingly complex and uncertain systems is …

Abstract The incompressibility constraint on ocean flows generates nonlocal effects, even in the case of uniform rotation and stratification. In particular, the geometry of ocean basins drastically alters wave propagation and energy transfer: internal and …