Here & There Across The Ancient Near East

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Editor’s Foreword                                                                                           V

Tabula Gratulatoria                                                                                        VII

Bibliography of Krystyna Łyczkowska                                                            XI

List of Abbreviations                                                                                    XVI

Piotr Bieliński

Some Cylinder Seal Impressions on Pottery from Tell Arbid                              1

Jan Braun

Pelasgian and Thracian Personal Names in Tyrsenian Language                         9

Albertyna Dembska

Lamentation                                                                                                    13

Olga Drewnowska

Figurines and Statues in the Cult of Nanāja                                                      23

Krystyna Gawlikowska

Birds on Sasanian Glass                                                                                  31

Michał Gawlikowski

Crossing to Kaneš                                                                                          44

Magdalena Kapełuś

Amelia Hertz as Assyriologist                                                                          53

Zdzisław Kapera

Jewish Rebellion in Cyprus in 116/117 AD and Mesopotamia                         69

Paweł Kociszewski

The Rod and the Ring. A Few Reflections about Creating Reality                     85

Rafał Koliński

On Organization of the Old Assyrian Long Distance Trade                              97

Edward Lipiński

Šuwala                                                                                                         115

Dorota Ławecka

North-Babylonian Motifs in Early Dynastic Mesopotamian Glyptics               121

Piotr Michałowski

Aššur during the Ur III Period                                                                       149

Piotr A. Miglus

Zwei Nergal-Tempel. Zwischen babylonischer und assyrischer Tradition        157

Stefan Nowicki

Acquiring of the Ritual Purity by Mechanical and Magical Means in the Ancient Near Eastern Rituals  171

Maciej Popko

Ein unbekanntes Textbruchstück zu CTH 627?                                              189

Andrzej Reiche and Małgorzata Sandowicz

Neo-Babylonian Seal from the Potocki Collection at the National Museum in Warsaw            195

Hanna Roszkowska-Mutschler

Einige Bemerkungen zu den Annalen Hattusilis I. und den Zehnjahr-Annalen Mursilis II.          221

Marek Stępień

Why Some Kings Become Gods. The Deification of Narām-Sîn, the Ruler of the World         233

Aleksandra Szymkuć and Dorota Wanacka

Two Sumerian Bricks from a Private Collection                                             257

Piotr Taracha

Why Hattušili chose the Storm-god of Nerik and Šauška of Šamuha              261

Stefan Zawadzki

The Archive of the Rabâ-ša-Ninurta Family from Babylon.

Business and Family Relations as Revealed by BM 55482                             271