Melammu

Markham J. Geller

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T1  - Melammu: The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization
A1  - Markham J. Geller
AB  - Melammu volumes have broadened the horizons of studies of antiquity by encouraging the crossing of geographical and cultural boundaries between ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. The present Melammu volume extends from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, also viewing texts from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. The globalization described in this volume extends over language barriers and literatures, showing how texts as well as goods can travel between societies and regions. This collection of papers offer new insights and perspectives into connections between the Mediterranean World, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Persia and India.
PB  - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
PY  - 2014
SN  - 978-3-945561-00-3
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DO  - 10.34663/9783945561003-00
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Proceedings 7

Melammu

The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization

Markham J. Geller (ed.)

The present Melammu volume extends from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, also viewing texts from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia.

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The present Melammu volume extends from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, also viewing texts from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia.

ONLINE PDF EPUB

This publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DE) Licence.

Melammu volumes have broadened the horizons of studies of antiquity by encouraging the crossing of geographical and cultural boundaries between ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. The present Melammu volume extends from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, also viewing texts from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. The globalization described in this volume extends over language barriers and literatures, showing how texts as well as goods can travel between societies and regions. This collection of papers offer new insights and perspectives into connections between the Mediterranean World, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Persia and India.

Preface: The Globalization of Knowledge in the Ancient
Near East
Jürgen Renn

Introduction to Melammu: Early Globalization
Markham J. Geller

1 Globalization of Religion:
Jewish Cosmology in its Ancient Near Eastern Context
Simo Parpola

2 Global Monotheism:
The Contribution of the Israelite Prophets
Baruch A. Levine

3 Globalization and Imperialism:
Political and Ideological Reactions to the Assyrian Presence in Syria (IXth–VIIIth Century BCE)
Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault

4 The Tale of the Wild Man and the Courtesan in India
and Mesopotamia: The Seductions of Ṛśyaśṛnga in the
Mahābhārata and Enkidu in the Epic of Gilgamesh
Tzvi Abusch, Emily West

5 Globalization in Literature:
Re-Examining the Gilgameš Affair
Cynthia Jean

6 Gilgamesh’s Plant of Rejuvenation and Qāṭīne’s Sīsīsāmbur
Nineb Lamassu

7 Some Observations about “Foreigners” in Babylonia
during the VI Century BCE
Kabalan Moukarzel

8 The Religious Reform of Nabonidus: A Sceptical View
Kabalan Moukarzel

9 New Light on George Smith’s Purchase of the
Egibi Archive in 1876 from the Nachlass Mathewson
Strahil V. Panayotov, Cornelia Wunsch

10 Phrygian Bronzes in the Greek World:
Globalization through Cult?
Maya Vassileva

11 Power and Ritual in the Achaemenian Royalty
Antonio Panaino

12 Religious Ontology and Taxonomic Structures in Indo-Iranian Oral Poetry
Velizar Sadovski

13 Elements of “Globalization” in Ancient Iranian Numismatics
Andrea Gariboldi

14 The Spread of the Cuneiform Culture to the Urartian North (IX–VII Century BCE)
Mirjo Salvini

15 India and World Trade: From the Beginnings to the
Hellenistic Age
Klaus Karttunen

16 Ancient Near Eastern Polities and the Greek Polis: Secondary States, Structural Similarities and the Problem of Diffusion
Kristoffer Momrak

17 Seeing Otherwise: On the Rules of Comparison in
Historical Humanities
Amar Annus

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A

Akkadian

Akītu

1

Aleppo

1
2
3
4
5
6

Alexander

1
2

Alexander Balas

1

alphabet

1
2
3
4

Amarna

1

Amorites

1

Amphiaraos

1

Anabasis

1

Anāhitā

1

Anatolia

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

Ankara

1

antediluvian sages

1

antelope

1

Antiochus IV

1

Anu

1
2

Aphrodite

1
2
3

Apollo

1
2
3

Arabia

Arabic

1

Aramaic

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Arameans

1
2
3
4
5
6

Ararat

1
2

archer

1
2

architecture

1
2
3
4
5
6

Ardašīr I

1

Aristotle

1
2
3

Armana

1
2

Armenia

Arrian

1

Arsaces

1

Artabanos I

1
2

Artaxerxes

1

Artaxerxes II

1
2

Artaxerxes III Ochos

1

Artemis

1
2
3
4
5

Artemision

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Aruru

1
2
3

Aryan

1
2

ascetic

Asherah

1
2
3
4
5

Ashtoreth-images

1

Asia Minor

1
2
3
4

Asiatic despotism

1

assembly

1
2
3

Assos

1
2

Aššur

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Assurnasirpal II

1
2
3
4

Assyria

astronomy

1
2
3

Atharvaveda

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Athena

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Athens

1
2
3
4
5

Atrahasis

1
2
3

Avesta

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Avestan

1
2

axis mundi

1

Azatiwada

1

Azerbeijan

1
2
3

B

Baal

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Bābtum

1

Babylonia

Bactria

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

baga

1

Baghdad

Bar Konai, Theodor

1

Barbarians

1
2
3

basileus

1
2

Bayındır

1
2
3

Bēl-šaru-uṣur

1
2

belts

benedictions

1

Beotia

1

Berosus

1

Bible

binding spells

1

Bisutun

1
2
3

black magic

1

Black Sea

1
2
3

body parts

1
2
3
4

Boǧazköy

1

Book of Daniel

1
2
3

Book of the Giants

1

Borsippa canal

1
2
3

Brahmán

1

bronze

Buddhist

Bukhara

1

Bulgaria

1
2
3
4
5

bullae

1
2

Byblos

1
2
3
4
5

C

Calah

1
2
3

Cambyses

1
2
3

camel

1

Canaan

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

canal

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Caracalla

1

caravan

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Carchemish

1
2

catalogues

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

cattle

1

Cedar Mountain

1

Central Asia

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

ceremonies

1
2
3
4

chariot

1

childbirth

1
2

Chios

1
2
3

Christianity

1

Cicero

1

city-states

Codex Hammurapi

1

Codex Manichaicus Coloniensis

1

coins

1

colonies

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Combabos

1
2
3

Commagene

1

commerce

1
2
3
4

commodity trade

1

comparisons

1

copper

1
2

cosmology

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

cow

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Crete

1
2

Croesus

1
2
3

Ctesias

1

cults

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

cuneiform

cuneiform tablet

1

cursing plate

1

cylinder seals

1

Cyropaedia

1

Cyrus

Cyrus Cylinder

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

D

Dagan

1

daglock

1
2

Danel

1

daric

1

death

1

Deir ’Alla

1

Delphi

1
2
3
4

Demeter

1

democracy

1

demon

1

demos

1

Demotic

1
2

Didyma

1
2

diffusion

1

Dilmun

1
2

Diogenes of Babylon

1

disease

1
2

divination

1

divine council

1

divinization

1

doll

1
2

dowry

1

dual dvandva

1

E

Egibi

1
2

Egypt

Eḫulḫul

1
2
3
4

ejaculation

1

Ekaśṛinga

1

El

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Elamites

1

elephant

1

Elephantine

1

elephants

1
2

Elijah

1
2

Emar

1

Enkidu

Enlil

1

Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta

1

Enoch

1

Enūma eliš

1

Ephesos

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

epigraphy

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

eschatological visions

1

esoteric

1
2
3
4

Etana myth

1

Etruscans

1

Euphrates

Ezekiel

1
2

Ezida

1
2
3

F

Failaka

1
2

farmer

1

fate

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

fibulae

figurines

1
2

fire altar

1

Fire, Wind, Sun, Moon

1
2

Fire-god

1

Flood

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

foreigners

free citizens

1

G

Gandhara

1
2

Genesis

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

George Smith

1
2
3
4

Gilgamesh

globalization

glyptic

1

Gnostic

1
2
3
4
5

gold

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

Gordion

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

governors

1
2

Greece

Greek

1
2
3

Greya

1

H

hairiness

1
2

Haldi

1
2
3
4
5
6

Haoma

1

Harappa

1
2
3
4
5
6

Harran

Hattussa

1

healing spells

1
2
3

Heaven

Hellenism

1
2

henotheism

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Hera

1
2
3
4

Heracles

1

herdsmen

1
2
3
4

Herodotos

1
2

Hesiod

1

hieroglyphic

1
2

Hindu

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

Hittite

1
2
3
4
5
6

Holy Spirit

1

Homer

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

Homeric

1

horn

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

horse

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Horus

1

human body

1

Hurrians

1
2
3
4

Huwawa

1

hymns

1
2
3
4
5

I

iconography

1
2
3
4
5
6

ideology

Iliad

1

imperialism

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Inanna

1
2

India

Indo-Iranian

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

Indus Valley

1
2
3

infection

1

invocation

1

irrigation

1

Isaiah

1

Isis

1

Isisinga

1

Israel

1

Ištar

1

Isthmia

1

ivory

1
2

Ivriz

1
2
3

J

Jazireh

1

Jerusalem

1

Jews

1

Josephus

1
2

Judaism

1

Judea

1
2

K

Kabbalah

1

Kaman Kalehöyük

1

Kamanis

1
2

Kandahar

1

Kar-Assurnasirpal

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Karkemiš

1

Kassite

1

Khabur

1

Khana kingdom

1

Kharoṣṭhī

1

Khorsabad

1
2

king

1
2
3
4

kingship

1
2

Kubaba

1

Kuntillet ‘Ajrud

1
2
3

Kurdistan

1
2

Kybele

1
2
3

L

Lake Van

1
2
3
4

lament

1

lapis lazuli

1

Laqê

1

Larisa

1

Latin

1
2
3
4
5

leftovers

1

Legal documents

1
2

Lēlīta

1

Lesbos

1

Levant

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

limbs

1
2

Lindos

1
2

Linear B

1
2
3
4

lingua franca

1

linguistics

1

lion

1
2
3
4
5
6

Listenwissenschaft

1

loans

1
2

Lomapāda

1

Lothal

1

Lycia

1
2
3

M

Magi

1

magic

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

Mahābhārata

maledictions

1

Mandaic

1

Manichaeans

1

Mappa Mundi

1

Marduk

Mari

1
2
3

Masaikh

1

materia medica

1

Mathewson

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Mazdayasnism

1

medicine

1
2
3

Mediterranean

Melchizedek

1

Messiah

1
2

Midas

1
2
3
4

Middle Assyrian

1
2

Miletos

1
2
3
4
5

military

1
2
3
4

Minoan

1

Minua

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Mithradates I

1

Moab

1

Modern Assyrian

1
2
3
4
5
6

Moses

1
2

Mother-Goddess

1
2

Mycenaean

1
2
3

mysteries

1
2

mythology

1
2
3
4
5

N

Nabonidus

Nabu

1

Nabû

1
2

Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Nahr Dawrin

1
2

Nairi

1
2

navy

1
2
3

Nebarti-Assur

1
2

Nebuchadnezzar II

1

Necho

1

Nergal and Ereshkigal

1

Nergal-eresh

1
2
3
4
5

Nestorian

1

netherworld

1
2
3
4

Nile

1
2

Ninegala

1

Nineveh

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Ninurta

1
2
3

Noah

1
2
3

O

Odysseus

1

oikoumene

1

Olympia

1
2
3

Oman

1
2
3
4
5

onomastic

1

oral literature

1

Osiris

1
2

Oxyartes

1

Oxyrhyncus

1

P

pairs

1

palace

Palestine

1

Pāṇḍava princes

1

paronomasia

1

Paros

1

Parthian

1
2
3
4
5

Pasargadae

1
2

Patriarchs

1
2
3
4
5
6

pentadic list

1

Pentateuchal

1

Perachora

1
2

Persepolis

1
2
3
4

Persia

1

Persian

1
2

Pherai

1

Philistines

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Phoenicians

1
2

Phraates II

1

Phrygia

piercing

1

Pliny

1
2
3

Plutarch

1
2
3
4
5

polis

polyptoton

1

polytheism

1
2
3

Poseidon

1
2

pragmatics

1
2

priest

princess

propaganda

1
2
3
4
5

prophets

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

proskynesis

1
2

prostitute

Psalm

1
2

Ptolemaic Egypt

1
2
3

Ptolemaios

1

purification

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

purohita

1

Pythagorean triples

1

Q

Qāṭīne

1

Qumran

1

R

Rasappa

1

raw materials

1

Red Sea

1

regalia

1

reliefs

1

religious reforms

1

rhetoric

1
2
3

Rhodes

1
2

Rimut

1

ritual

ritual food

1

Roman

1
2
3

royal inscriptions

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Ṛśyaśṛnga

1

S

Šābuhr I

1

sacrificial animals

1

sacrificial materials

1

sacrificial plants

1

sailing

1
2

Sakka

1

šaknu

1

Šamaš

1

Šamaš-šum-ukīn

1

Samos

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Samothrace

1
2

Samuel

1
2
3
4
5

Sanskrit

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

šar kiššāti

1

Sarduri I

1
2
3

Sardursburg

1
2
3
4
5
6

Sargon II

1
2

scribe

Scripture

1
2
3

sea trade

1
2
3
4
5
6

Sefirot

1
2

Seistan

1

Seleucus I

1
2

semantic etymologies

1

Semiramis

1
2
3
4
5

Sennacherib

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Septuagint

1

sex

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

Shalmaneser III

1
2
3
4

Shamhat

1

Shedu

1
2

silver

sin

1
2
3
4
5
6

Sȋn

1

Sirqu

1

Sīsīsāmbur

1

slave

1
2
3

Smyrna

1
2

Sogdian

1
2
3
4
5

Solomon

1

Soma

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Song of Qāṭīne

1
2

Song of Songs

1
2

Sophia

1

Soqotra

1

sorcerer

1

Sparta

1
2
3
4

spells

1

spice trade

1

stele

1

stylistics

1

Suhu

1

Šukalletuda

1
2

Šukalletuda

1

Šulgi

1

Sūtras

1

Syria

T

taboo

1

Tammuz

1

taxes

1
2

technology

1

Tefnut, Legend of

1

Tegea

1

teleology

1
2

Tell Halaf

1

temple

Terqa

1
2
3

theatre

1

Thebes

1

Themistokles

1

theogony

1

Theopator

1

Theophras

1

Theos

1

Thesmophoria

1

throne

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

Thukydides

1
2

Tiglat-Pileser III

1
2
3

Tigris

1
2
3
4

time and space

1

tin

1

tīrtha

1

Tobit

1

tombs

1
2
3

Torah

1
2

Toynbee

1
2

trade

1
2

tribalism

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

tribute

1
2

Troy

1
2
3
4

Tukulti-Ninurta I

1

Tukulti-Ninurta II

1
2

tumulus

1

Tušpa

1
2
3
4
5

tyrant

1
2
3
4
5

Tyre

1

U

Ugarit

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

uʾiltu

1

Upi

1

Ur III

1

Ur-Mensch

1

urbanization

1

Uruk

1

Utnapishtim

1
2

V

Vedic ritual

1

Vibhāṇḍaka

1

voodoo

1

W

wanax

1

war

1

Warpalawa

1
2
3

Wen-Amun

1

West Semites

1

Western Asia

1

wild man

1

witch

1
2

witness

1

writing

1

X

Xenophon

1

Xusraw II

1

Y

Yahweh

1
2

Yajurveda mantras

1

Yariris

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Zaraθuštra

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Zeriya

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Zeus

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ziggurat

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Zincirly

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Zion

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Information

ISBN

978-3-945561-00-3

DOI

10.34663/9783945561003-00

Publication Date

July 27, 2014

Print on Demand

currently unavailable

Suggested Citation

Geller, Markham J. (ed.) (2014). Melammu: The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization. Berlin: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften.

Submitted by

Jens Braarvig

Editorial Team

Lindy Divarci, Beatrice Hermann, Linda Jauch

Melammu

The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization

A

Achaemenids

acropolis

Adad-nirari II

Adad-nirari III

Adam

Adda-Guppi

Addu

administrative documents

Aegina

Aeneid

Aesop

Afghanistan

agora

Ahhiyawa

Aḫīqar

Ahura Mazdā

Ahuramazdā

Akhenaten

Akkad

Akkadian

Akītu

Aleppo

Alexander

Alexander Balas

alphabet

Amarna

Amorites

Amphiaraos

Anabasis

Anāhitā

Anatolia

Ankara

antediluvian sages

antelope

Antiochus IV

Anu

Aphrodite

Apollo

Arabia

Arabic

Aramaic

Arameans

Ararat

archer

architecture

Ardašīr I

Aristotle

Armana

Armenia

Arrian

Arsaces

Artabanos I

Artaxerxes

Artaxerxes II

Artaxerxes III Ochos

Artemis

Artemision

Aruru

Aryan

ascetic

Asherah

Ashtoreth-images

Asia Minor

Asiatic despotism

assembly

Assos

Aššur

Assurnasirpal II

Assyria

astronomy

Atharvaveda

Athena

Athens

Atrahasis

Avesta

Avestan

axis mundi