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Abstract Excavations of the ancient city of Terqa have yielded a modest quantity of texts, compared with its neighbor Mari, but they are spread over a slightly wider chronological arc, from the Shakkanakku period to the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, …

Abstract It is well known that, in the Old Babylonian Period, a cuneiform tablet inscribed with a juridical text was often encased in a clay envelope and the tablet's text was reproduced on the envelope's surface. This practice was intended to prevent …

Abstract When Samsi-Addu succeeded in creating a vast empire in Upper Mesopotamia, he accompanied his military conquests with cultural measures. The construction of temples in several cities was perhaps the most visible of these. Administration was also …

Abstract This first paper will present the history of publications of Paleo-Babylonian archival texts from 1882 to the present : no fewer than 35 192 texts have now been published in full, with a pace that accelerated considerably after the Second World …

Morning : in the Guillaume Budé amphitheatre Afternoon : poster session in rooms 7 and 8 …

Abstract This paper examines Syrian refugee women's experiences of waiting in border areas. Living in the temporality of war and refugee status, war refugees are subject to various forms of waiting. These are constitutive of the temporal dispositions and …