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Friday, July 11
	P131	P200	P300	P301	P104	P018	P217
12:00–12:30			David Eich Cancelled: Reasoning in Poetry: Enumeration in Sumerian Royal Hymns
15:00–15:30	Lectures in W13 have been shifted; see the updated program

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Monday, July 7
8:30-9:45	Registration (Faculty of Arts, Nám. J. Palacha 2, foyer)
9.45-10:15	Opening Ceremony (room P131) Milena Králíčková, Rector of Charles University Eva Lehečková, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University Táňa Dluhošová, Director of the Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences Walther Sallaberger, President of the International Association for Assyriology Jana Mynářová and Sergio Alivernini, Organizing Committee of the 70th RAI
10:15-11:00	Manuel Molina: Housing, Personal Wealth, and the Ur III State (Keynote lecture, room P131)
11:00–11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:15	Marc Van De Mieroop: From Dawn to Dusk: The Tyranny of Time in the Babylonians’ Daily Life (Keynote lecture, room P131)
12:15-13:00	Shana Zaia: Growing Up Imperial: Raising the Next Generation of Empire in 1st Millennium BCE Mesopotamia (Keynote lecture, room P131)
13:00–14:30	Lunch Break
	P131	P200	P300	P301	P104	P018	P217
	General Track chair: Seth Richardson	General Track chair: Massimo Maiocchi	W24: Daily Life in Uruk in the First Millennium BCE chair: Michael Kozuh	W21: Religion and Economy in Ancient Mesopotamia chair: Steven Garfinkle	W01: City and Country in the Geography of Late Bronze Age Anatolia chair: Federico Giusfredi	General Track chair: Lisa Wilhelmi
14:30–15:00	Juan Mora The Role of First-Millenium Mesopotamian Scribes During Wartime	Walther Sallaberger Who Met in the Emunus of Girsu? Activities in a Sumerian Redistributive Centre	Jelena Gvozdenović, Michael Jursa, Matthias Adelhofer Narrating Daily Life in 6th Century Uruk	Trey Nation Gods and the Dead as Economic Agents at 19th Century Assur and Kaneš	Giulia Torri, Federico Giusfredi Introduction	Caroline Waerzeggers The Politics of Silence: Experiencing the First Decades of Persian Rule in Babylonia (c. 539–500 BCE)
15:00–15:30	Patricia Bou Pérez "The World that the Girl Saw:" Women, Children, and War during the Old Babylonian Period	Andreas Johandi Deities and Festivals in Early Dynastic Zabalam and KI.AN	Louise Quillien Daily Life and Clothing of Eanna Temple Personnel in the Sixth Century BCE	Howard Farber Forced Real Estate Sales in Babylonia (2000-1600 BCE)	Adam Kryszeń What Defines a City in Hittite Anatolia?	Emma Yavasan, Maria Molina Sentiment Analysis for Hittite Emotional Contexts
15:30–16:00	Abdelhak Baya Everyday Life of Neo-Assyrian Soldiers in Peacetime (734-617 BCE.).	Noemi Colombo Written and Oral Memory: Cultural Transmission between Conservation and Manipulation of Original Contents	Marie Young, Melanie Groß, Johannes Hackl The Širku and the Olfactory Landscape of Eanna: A Sensory Approach to the Study of Food in the Context of Cultic Offerings	Gabriella Spada “When Alive and Well”: Debt Flexibility in Old Babylonian Temple Loans	Livio Warbinek, Antonio Carnevale From Durmitta to Tapikka: The Northern Districts and Their Resources	Greta Van Buylaere Rediscovered in Babylon: A Letter from Bēl-Ibni to the Assyrian King
16:00–16:30	Coffee Break
	General Track chair: Christina Tsouparopoulou	General Track chair: Paul Delnero	W24: Daily Life in Uruk in the First Millennium BCE chair: Louise Quillien	W21: Religion and Economy in Ancient Mesopotamia chair: Gina Konstantopoulos	W01: City and Country in the Geography of Late Bronze Age Anatolia chair: Giulia Torri	General Track chair: Jacob Lauinger
16:30–17:00	Yasmin Alasady, Nael Hamoud Unpublished Seal Impressions (Bulls) from the Iraqi Museum	Anne Goddeeris From School Bench to Temple Management. The lives of Nuska-nīšu and His Friends.	Malgorzata Sandowicz, Michael Kozuh, Caroline Waerzeggers Reconstructing and Narrating Daily Life in Sixth-Century Uruk: Nighttime	Seraina Nett Food for the Gods: Regular Offerings During the Reign of the Third Dynasty of Ur	N. İlgi Gerçek Between the Wild and the Walled: Sacred and Ritual Landscapes Beyond the City	Michael Leff Diplomacy and Daily Life: Hittite-Assyrian Rivalry and the Realities of Imperial Competition
17:00–17:30	Karolina Przyłęcka Seal Carving – Interplay of Art and Mathematics.	Kiril Mladenov Task Management and Coordination in the Neo-Assyrian Letters	Yuval Levavi Moving in and around Eanna	Nicole Brisch When the Gods Don’t Eat: Gaps and Empty Spaces in Offering Lists	Alvise Matessi A New Look at the System of ‘Regional Palaces’ in the Hittite Administrative Network	Shin'ichi Nishiyama Aspects of Everyday Life in an Assyrian Provincial Capital: Results from the Yasin Tepe Archaeological Project, Iraqi Kurdistan
17:30–18:00	Repekka Uotila Writing Boards in the Neo-Assyrian Period: Functions, Categories, and the Question of Aramaic	Gökhan Kağnici Narrating One’s Own Experience: Health, Illness, and Disability in Ego-Documents in Ancient Mesopotamia	Julia Giessler Širkū in Motion – Reconstructing and Narrating Daily Life in Sixth Century Uruk		Timothy Leonard The Wild Gods of Hittite Anatolia	Lena Fijałkowska Legal Change in Everyday Life in the Late Bronze Age

Tuesday, July 8
	P131	P200	P300	P301	P104	P018	P217
	General Track chair: Daniel Schwemer	General Track chair: Steven Garfinkle	W17: Local Power and Urban Institutions in Ancient Western Asia during the 2nd Millennium BCE chair: Philippe Abrahami	W21: Religion and Economy in Ancient Mesopotamia chair: Michael Kozuh	W18: Everyday Life in the Late Babylonian Period chair: Céline Debourse	W02: E.L.A.M.: Elamite Languages, Arts and Material Cultures chair: Mirko Surdi	W16: Daily Mathematical Life in Mesopotamia chair: Carlos Gonçalves
9:00–9:30	Annunziata Rositani The Measurement of Time in Everyday Life during the Old Babylonian Period	Vitali Bartash House-Born Slaves in Sumer	Elliott Lairie - Morgane Pique Introduction	Rocío Da Riva Prebendary Gardeners in I Millennium BCE Babylonian Temples	Bert van der Spek Where is the Greek Temple in Babylon?	Introduction (starting 9:25)	Robert Middeke-Conlin Brewing the Numbers: Mathematical Knowledge Exhibited by Brewers in the Old Babylonian Period
9:30–10:00	Tomoki Kitazumi Concept(ion) of Time According to the Hittite Überlieferung – Lexical and Philological Basis	Heather D. Baker Everyday Inequality in First Millennium Babylonia	Sasha Yeranin New Data on Balmunamḫe of Larsa and His Bītum	Giorgio Paolo Campi The Gods to Pay. Širkū Dedication as Religious-Economic Compromise	Geert De Breucker Being Greek in Hellenistic Babylon	Paladre Clélia From Archaeological Myth to Tangible Evidence: What If We Finally Characterized a Proto-Elamite Culture?	Cécile Michel ‘To Whom Else but Me Would You Send Only 1 Mina 10 Shekels for 6 Textiles?’ Women and Accounts in the Old Assyrian Texts
10:00–10:30	Christina Tsouparopoulou Mapping Ancient Mesopotamian Sacred Space	Avi Shveka The Institution of Child Support in the Ancient Near East and Its Implications for Women's Status and Rights in a Patriarchal Society	Farah Thomas Judges of Mari (in the Early 2nd Millenium BCE): Relations between an Urban Institution, the King and the People	Radosław Tarasewicz Changes to the Organisation of Livestock Management in Sippar		François Desset, Laurent Colonna d'Istria Studying Graphic Variations: A New Online Database for Linear Elamite	Thomas Peeters Errors in Mesopotamian Astronomical Tables
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break
	General Track chair: Caroline Waerzeggers	General Track chair: Jana Matuszak	W17: Local Power and Urban Institutions in Ancient Western Asia during the 2nd Millennium BCE chair: Rients de Boer	W21: Religion and Economy in Ancient Mesopotamia chair: Nicole Brisch	W18: Everyday Life in the Late Babylonian Period chair: Kathryn Stevens	W02: E.L.A.M.: Elamite Languages, Arts and Material Cultures chair: Jan Tavernier	W16: Daily Mathematical Life in Mesopotamia chair: Robert Middeke-Conlin
11:00–11:30	Ádám Vér Bēl Adê ša Šarri Anāku – The Man Who Had Taken an Oath of the King	Gábor Kalla Material Composition of Different Types of Private Households in Old Babylonian Period	Seth Richardson Urban Institutions as Venues: Substance, Affect, and Expression in Old Babylonian Letters	Michael Kozuh A By-Product of the Religious Economy in the First Millennium BC	Roberta Menegazzi Growing up at Seleucia on the Tigris	Katrien De Graef, Omid Tabatabaei, Mirko Surdi A Bridge between Susa and Anshan: A Newly Discovered Bronze Vessel from the Sukkalmah Period	Carlos Gonçalves A House of 24 Square Meters Plus a Few Square Centimeters (2/3 Sar 15 Še). The Practical Mathematics Exhibited by Old Babylonian Real-Estate Contracts.
11:30–12:00	Kateryna Baulina King of the Kings and "Charisma of the Kingdom" in Assyria and Achaemenid Empires	Laura Battini Sense and Sensibility: The Life of the House in Mesopotamia	Elliott Lairie, Rients de Boer, Eva von Dassow, Seth F. C. Richardson Concluding Round Table	Caroline Wallis The Economics of New Year Rituals: Like a Bridge Over Troubled Waters	Nicolaas Verhelst Reframing Hellenistic Uruk: the Archives	Gian Pietro Basello Mesopotamian Lexical Lists, Elamite-Wise	David Buckle The Babylonians and Pi
12:00–12:30	Nawala Al-Mutawalli, Ali Jihad Murad Lipit Eshtar Historical Text	Nikita Artemov The Policy of Heart. Everyday Activities as Metaphors for Mental Processes in Old Babylonian Letters		Final Discussion	Céline Debourse Women in Late Babylonian Esagil	Filippo Pedron, Katrien de Graef, Shai Gordin, Timo Homburg, Eric Whitacre “They Greet Me and I Reply in Elamite”. Building an Elamite Lemma Base and Tracing Linguistic Evolution	Elena Devecchi, Grégory Chambon Capacity Units and Administrative Practices: The Calculation of Rubbû in Middle Babylonian Texts
12:30–14:00	Lunch Break
	General Track chair: Cale Johnson	General Track chair: Susanne Paulus	W07: Current Research on Mesopotamian Magic chair: Elyze Zomer	W09: The Forgotten City of Kish: Local Perspectives chair: Eleanor Robson	W18: Everyday Life in the Late Babylonian Period chair: Céline Debourse	W02: E.L.A.M.: Elamite Languages, Arts and Material Cultures chair: Katrien De Graef	W16: Daily Mathematical Life in Mesopotamia chair: Carlos Gonçalves and Robert Middeke-Conlin
14:00–14:30	Joyce P.Y. Leung Copying Vocabulary as a Priest: the Intellectual Historical Aspect of the Emesal Vocabulary Tablets	Petra Creamer Traversing Boundaries between Living and Deceased in Daily Assyrian Life	Genevieve Le Ban Casting the First Spell: Early Evidence on Witchcraft in the ED III	Ashraf Al-Humairi The City of Kish Today	Joe Currie Was Late Babylonian Religion Invented?	François Bridey, Véronique Pataï From Susa to the Louvre-Lens Museum: Rediscovering and Reconstructing the EKI 54 Stele of Šilak Inšušinak	Michela Piccin The Mathematically Sublime in Mesopotamian Sources
14:30–15:00	Alan Lenzi DUB “KAR 228” and ÉN “Shamash 6”: Averting “Seizure of the Chest” and Defining the Akkadian Shuila-Corpus	Valery J. Schlegel Feeding the Dead. The Archaeological Materiality of kispu(m) in Neo-Assyrian Burials	Nicholas Gill Snakes, Nets, and Cords: A New Interpretation of an Old Spell	Parsa Daneshmand The Kish Project: Online Translation of Cuneiform Texts into Arabic and Persian-Methods and Challenges	Kathryn Stevens Festivals and Celebrations in Hellenistic Babylonia	Rémi Bois Philological Notes on "Day" in Elamite	Grégoire Nicolet Daily Numeracy at Mari: From Sexagesimal at School to Centesimal in the Palace
15:00–15:30	Stefan Jakob The Guv’nor – Life and Death of Aššur-Nāṣir, Bēl Pāḫete of Mardama	Zahra Kouzehgari The 'Mistress of Animals' in Luristan Bronzes: A Semiotic Approach to Reinterpreting Gendered Visual Narratives in Iron Age Luristan Art	Maria Shirokova Formal Poetics of the Old Babylonian Love Incantations	Nadia Ait Said-Ghanem Baghdad's Antiquities Dealers and Cuneiform Tablets from Kish	Felix Müller The Performance of the ‘Exaltation of Ištar’ in Hellenistic Uruk	Elynn Gorris Floating from the Rivers to the Marshes: Nautical Infrastructure in Elam	Final Discussion
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
	General Track chair: Armando Bramanti	General Track chair: Regine Pruzsinszky	W07: Current Research on Mesopotamian Magic chair: Nicholas M. Gill	W09: The Forgotten City of Kish: Local Perspectives chair: Nadia Aït Saïd-Ghanem	W18: Everyday Life in the Late Babylonian Period chair: Kathryn Stevens	W02: E.L.A.M.: Elamite Languages, Arts and Material Cultures chair: Elynn Gorris	ERC: Grant Opportunities chair: Ralph Birk (ERC)
16:00–16:30	Jonathan Valk Everyday Aramaic in the Neo-Assyrian Empire	Joost Blasweiler The People of Kanesh among Their River and Spring Goddesses during the MBA Period	Daniel Schwemer Seven Times Seven Sages: The Apkallu Tradition in the Bīt Mēseri Ritual	Ahmed Azeez Selman Terracotta from Ancient Kish	Spencer Elliott Praying for a Change: Recitative Literature in the Scholarly Archives of LB Uruk	Judith Thomalsky Susa in Transitions	Ralph Birk (ERC) ERC Funding Opportunities for the Humanities - From Idea to Grant: Introduction
16:30–17:00	Hanan Hamza From the Early Years of the Royal Treasure Archive of Esaĝdana-Nibru	Eli Tadmor A Baby on Fire: How Išum Got His Name	Frank Simons Who Does What, with What, and to Whom?	Raad Hamed Abdullah Clay and Its Uses in Ancient and Modern Iraq	Alessia Pilloni How Personal Do the Stars Get When ‘A Child Is Born’?		Caroline Waerzeggers, Mathieu Ossendrijver ERC Funding Opportunities for the Humanities - From Idea to Grant: Sharing Experience
17:00–17:30	Antoine Jacquet, Lucie Cez, Régis Vallet Daily Water Management at Larsa in the early 2nd Millennium BC	Marion Marage Innana as a Representation of the Planet Venus in the Old Babylonian Hymn Iddin-Dagan A	Beatrice Baragli What Kind of Magic Spell to Use? Mechanisms of Magic within the Bīt Rimki Ritual	Eleanor Robson The Forgotten Workers of Kish: The Daily Life of Archaeological Labour in Early 20th-Century Hillah		Elynn Gorris Concluding remarks, Discussion	ERC Funding Opportunities for the Humanities - From Idea to Grant: Q&A-session
17:30-18:00	Dumuzi's Dream (a movie in Sumerian) (room P131)

Wednesday, July 9
	P131	P200	P300	P301	P104	P018	P217
	General Track chair: John Nielsen	General Track chair: Michael Kozuh	W07: Current Research on Mesopotamian Magic chair: Genevieve Le Ban	W08: Upper Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st Millennia BC: New Research and Perspectives chair: Elena Devecchi	W05: Letters – Beyond Editions chair: Mustapha Djabellaoui	W04: Botanical Heritage: The Role of Plants in Mesopotamian Daily Life chair: Gioele Zisa
9:00–9:30		Jan Tavernier Banqueting in Ancient Ugarit	Jon Beltz Lugal-Namtar: The Contours of a Little-Known Bilingual Incantation Text	Francesca Nebiolo Introduction: Upper Mesopotamian Projects and Tools. An Overview on PCEHM and the New ARCHIBAB	Anita Fattori La vie dynamique des lettres : une compréhension des stratégies discursives des femmes paléo-assyriennes	Piotr Michalowski Folk Taxonomies in a Society with Writing – the Sumerian Framework for Organizing Plant Labels from a Cognitive Perspective
9:30–10:00		Susanne Paulus The Merchants of Babylon	András Bácskay ‘Ointments, Fumigations and Amulet Bags Against Evil Lamashtu’: An analysis of an Unpublished Neo-Babylonian Tablet	Laurent Colonna d'Istria, Grégoire Nicolet Scribal Tradition and Dialectology in the Middle Euphrates Valley during the 19th Century (End of the Šakkanakku Period)	Matthias Adelhofer The Civility of Old Assyrian Letters	Michael Jursa Aromatics in Neo-Babylonian Temples
10:00–10:30	Georg Neumann Daily Life on the Excavations in Babylon (1899–1917)	Maddalena Rumor, Rekha Srinivasan “That Silver Cannot Be Detected.” (And It Still Cannot Today!)	Marie Barkowsky Eṭel Lilî, Ardat Lilî: One Ritual or Many?	Alsaleem Khaled Bookkeeping at the Mari Palace during the end of the Šakkanakku Period (Mid 19th Century BC) for the Management of Flour and Bread	Sara Manasterska Exchanges and Expectations: Tracing the Forms of Reciprocity in Akkadian Letters	Silvana Di Paolo Ancient Near Eastern Practices in Viticulture par Images. A View from the Palace
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break
	General Track chair: Aino Hätinen	General Track chair: Anne Goddeeris	W07: Current Research on Mesopotamian Magic chair: Beatrice Baragli	W08: Upper Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st Millennia BC: New Research and Perspectives chair: Hervé Reculeau	W05: Letters – Beyond Editions chair: Mustapha Djabellaoui	W04: Botanical Heritage: The Role of Plants in Mesopotamian Daily Life chair: Piotr Michalowski
11:00–11:30	Evelyne Koubková A Fine Balance: Shifts and Ambiguities in the Mesopotamian Exorcist’s Ritual Speech	Gustav Ryberg Smidt Inter-Annotator Agreement Analysis: Creating a Consistent OCR Dataset	Eleanor Home "Let the Tongues of Those Days be Removed from Your Bodies”: The Classification and Semantic Extension of Body Part Terms in Hittite Rituals	Nele Ziegler La vie quotidienne dans le royaume de Haute-Mésopotamie (18e siècle av. J.-C.)	Marine Béranger Old Babylonian Letters: Social Context and Daily Life	Gioele Zisa Plants as Persons: First Millennium Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Botany
11:30–12:00	Abigail Hoskins Teaching and Learning in the House of the Āšipu	Janine Wende, Michael P. Streck The Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary Project	Letizia Savino Medicine and Magic Across Borders: The Rubricated Akkadian Manuscripts from Ḫattuša	Johannes Bach Revisiting the Chronology of Išme-Dagān’s Yaʾilānum-Campaign	Lynn-Salammbô Zimmermann Nippur in the Provincial Network according to Kassite Period Letters	Adam Howe The ‘Scape-Palm’? Ritual Use and Symbolism of a Plant from Mesopotamian Daily Life
12:00–12:30	Katharine Shields Conditional Clauses in Hittite Laws and Omens	Laith M. Hussein Some Old Babylonian Seals and Seal-Impressions from Tell Ḥarmal (Ancient Šaduppûm)	Marko Vitas The Gods of Magic: The Role of the Gods in Akkadian and Greek Incantations	Dominique Charpin L'affaire Yarim-Addu : la confiscation d'une archive au début du règne de Zimri-Lim		Kai Huang Radiation and Synthesis: The Rosette as a Symbol of Neo-Assyrian Political Theology
13:00	RAI Group Photo (Rudolfinum; meeting in front of the faculty building)
13:00–14:30	Lunch Break
	W03: Everyday Life in the Ur III Period chair: Steven Garfinkle	W15: Divination and Daily Life chair: Aino Hätinen	W12: Writing the Dawn of the Anthropocene chair: Yael Leokumovich	W08: Upper Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st Millennia BC: New Research and Perspectives chair: Nele Ziegler	W05: Letters – Beyond Editions chair: Sara Manasterska	W04: Botanical Heritage: The Role of Plants in Mesopotamian Daily Life chair: Michael Jursa
14:30–15:00	Introduction	Saki Kikuchi, Poppy Tushingham Synchronizing Empire: Hemerologies and Assyrian Influence on Local Administrative Practices	Sophus Helle Atra-hasis and Contemporary Historical Debates	Shigeo Yamada Tabatum and Its Surroundings during the Early Hana Period	Francesco Ignazio De Magistris Placing the Archive of Idadda in the Amarna Chronology	Vérène Chalendar The Circulation of Plants and Plant Products in Upper Mesopotamia during the Old Babylonian Period
15:00–15:30	Armando Bramanti Praise to Nin-Ildum, the Princely Carpenter! An Early Mesopotamian God in the Neosumerian Documentation	Krzysztof Ulanowski Military Aspects of Everyday Life. The Animals in War Divination.	Christie Carr, Émilie Pagé-Perron Human-Environment Interactions at the Dawn of the Anthropocene: A Case Study of Third-Millennium Fisheries in South-Western Asia	Regine Pruzsinszky Upper Mesopotamia during the “Dark Age” in the Second Millennium BCE	Sanae Itō Rakbû as Diplomatic Envoys: A Study of Mounted Messengers in Royal Inscriptions from Shalmaneser III to Assurbanipal	JoAnn Scurlock Long Distance Trade's Contribution to Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Case of Exotic Plants, Animals and Stones in Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic
15:30–16:00	Andrew Pottorf, Felix Rauchhaus "Wealth is Far Away, Poverty is Near" (SP 1.15): Portraying Ur III Poverty and Abundance in Terms of Purchasing Power	Zsombor J. Földi Secrets of the Liver and Secrets of Men: An Old Babylonian Extispicy Report and Its Historical Context	Rune Rattenborg Rational Living: Quantifying Human Subsistence at the Interface of Landscape and Political Economy in the Middle Bronze Age Jazīrah	Maurizio Viano ChatGPT and Emar: A Galactic Guide to Building a Prosopography Over the Christmas Holidays	Mustapha Djabellaoui Tracing Individual Trajectories in Cuneiform Correspondence: The Case of Babylonian Letters from Nippur (8th Century BCE)	Marta Iommelli The Ṣarbatu-Tree in Mesopotamian Therapeutic and Cultural Contexts
16:00–16:30	Coffee Break
	W03: Everyday Life in the Ur III Period chair: Nicole Brisch	W15: Divination and Daily Life chair: Mary Frazer	W12: Writing the Dawn of the Anthropocene chair: Christie Carr	W08: Upper Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st Millennia BC: New Research and Perspectives chair: Dominique Charpin	W05: Letters – Beyond Editions chair: Sara Manasterska
16:30–17:00	Claire Padovani, Melania Zingarello Central Authority, Local Practices: Labour and Production in Ur III Ceramic Workshop at Logardan, Iraqi Kurdistan	Wiebke Meinhold Bird Divination and Evidence for an Omen Collection Šumma Iṣṣūru	Yael Leokumovich Cultic Reeds: Marshlands in Ritual Incantations	Aurélien Caron Defining Upper-Mesopotamia through the Assyrian Royal Titulary	Amanda Podany Letters, Lists, Legal Texts, and Lentils: Un-matched Evidence for the Study of Ancient Daily Life
17:00–17:30	Christian Borgen Seasonality, Hiring, and Gendered Labor at Garšana	Aino Hätinen Fortune-Telling Revisited	Gösta Gabriel Atrahasis and the Anthropocene	Jaroslav Mudroň From Calah to Guzan. Assyrian Cultural Overlaps in the Tell Fekheriyeh Inscription.	Final Discussion
17:30–18:00	Changyu Liu Labor, Slave and Children: Sales of Persons in Ur III Dynasty	Kaira Boddy Countering Bad Omens as an Ordinary Man: Everyday Rituals in Šumma Ālu	Christopher Kramp Sennacherib among the Ecologists?	Final Discussion

Thursday, July 10
	P131	P200	P300	P301	P104	P018	P217
	W03: Everyday Life in the Ur III Period chair: Christina Tsouparopoulou	W15: Divination and Daily Life chair: Poppy Tushingham	W11: 100 Years of Nuzi: A Workshop Celebrating a Century of Discovery chair: Jeanette C. Fincke	W19: Intertextuality in Cuneiform Literature and Beyond chair: Nikita Artemov	W06: Redefining Social Complexity in the Late 4th millennium BC chair: Kathryn Kelley	W20: Cultural Memory in the Ancient Near East chair: Zachary Rubin
9:00–9:30	Andrea Rebecca Marrocchi Savoi Through the Keyhole: Exploring Daily Life in Ur III through Ditila Texts	Catherine Mittermayer Exploring the Excerpt Tablets of Šumma Ālu: The Special Case of the Nishu Tablets	Albert Planelles Hurrian Lexicon with Akkadian Morphemes and Vice Versa: Language Interference in the Nuzi Texts	Jana Matuszak Ex Negativo Definitions and the Pedagogical Power of Parody	Massimo Maiocchi Approaching Social Complexity in the Late Fourth Millennium BCE	Stéphanie Anthonioz The Chastisement of Mothers: Understanding Biblical Chastisement (Gen 3:16) in Light of Sources from Mesopotamia and Greece
9:30–10:00	Steven Garfinkle A Day in the Life of the Ur III Political Economy	Sophie Cohen-Olberding Evidence of Scholarly Interaction in Colophons from Nineveh	Olga Sęk A New Derivational Suffix in the Hurro-Akkadian of Nuzi	Jane Gordon Intertextuality without Allusion? Reading the Stock Phrases in the Old Babylonian Scribal Curriculum as a Form of Latent Poetics	Klaus Wagensonner Learning How to Write at the Dawn of History	Bernardo Ballesteros Adapa’s Charter-Myth and Ancient Greek Mythical Healers
10:00–10:30	Zhi Li Duplicated Works (gaba-ri) of Scribes in Ur III Period	Mathis Kreitzscheck Copying Mesopotamian Omen Texts in Hattusa	Faith Myrick Beyond Sealing Practices in the ISAC Teḫip-Tilla Archive		Angela Greco On Fruits and Firstlings during the Archaic Period	Frances Reynolds Cultural Memory and Failed Mythological Kingship
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break
	W03: Everyday Life in the Ur III Period chair: Seraina Nett	W15: Divination and Daily Life chair: Saki Kikuchi	W11: 100 Years of Nuzi: A Workshop Celebrating a Century of Discovery chair: Josué-Javier Justel	W19: Intertextuality in Cuneiform Literature and Beyond chair: Johannes Bach	W06: Redefining Social Complexity in the Late 4th millennium BC chair: Massimo Maiocchi	W20: Cultural Memory in the Ancient Near East chair: Eli Tadmor
11:00–11:30	Anna Krisztina Pintér The Šabras and the Bureaus of Animal Husbandry in Ur during the Ur III Period	Natanael Anor The Babylonian Oracle Procedure: Theory and Practice	Diana Stein Nuzi Mischwesen: Random or Not?	Maria Molina Mythological Narrative in Anatolia: Hurrite-Hittite-Greek	Cale Johnson Revisiting the Late Uruk Rosters: Subcases and Subordination in the UKKIN-based Materials	Emanuel Pfoh The Bible and the Ancient Near East as Cultural Memories
11:30–12:00	Paola Paoletti Not Only Beer: The Multifaceted Role of Fermentation in Ancient Mesopotamian Food Preservation in the Third Millennium BCE	Luis Saenz The Bilingual Astrological Omens and Their Significance for the Use of Divination in Daily Life	Philippe Abrahami The “Queen’s Barley” Management	Geraldina Rozzi, Henry Lewis When a Text Branches Out: Tree and Plant Lists in Akkadian Literature	Piotr Zadworny Contextualizing CUSAS 1: 18 – A Roster of the Unprovenanced Late Uruk Administration?	Hayedeh Torabi Die Transformation des Schlangengottes des Susa Inšušinak ins dämonisierte Feinbild Zahhak in den persischen Quellen
12:00–12:30	Licia Romano, Angela Greco, Giulia Festa The Use, Recycling, and Everyday Importance of Bitumen in Ur III Southern Mesopotamia	Maria Teresa Renzi-Sepe Planetary Conceptualization in Mesopotamian Celestial Divination: Insights from the First Half of the First Millennium BCE	Pataï Véronique, Brigitte Lion Nuzi Tablets from the Louvre Museum	Louise Pryke Torrents of Blood: Intertextuality and Environmental Crisis in Ancient Narrative	Kathryn Kelley The Structure of Administration in Susa	Agnès Garcia-Ventura The Experience of Memory of the Ancient Near East in Nineteenth Century Spain: An Approach through Plaster Casts
12:30–14:00	Lunch Break
	W03: Everyday Life in the Ur III Period chair: Manuel Molina	W15: Divination and Daily Life chair: Mary Frazer	W11: 100 Years of Nuzi: A Workshop Celebrating a Century of Discovery chair: Brigitte Lion	W19: Intertextuality in Cuneiform Literature and Beyond chair: Johannes Bach	W06: Redefining Social Complexity in the Late 4th millennium BC chair: Katrien de Graef	W20: Cultural Memory in the Ancient Near East chair: Ben Dewar
14:00–14:30	Clemens Reichel (Mostly) Business as Usual – Daily Life in Eshnunna's Palace of the Rulers	Parker Zane “Venus as a Boy”: The Gender of the Planet Venus in the Mesopotamian Divinatory Tradition	Jeanette C. Fincke The Nuzi Texts of the Vorderasiatisches Museum	Selena Wisnom ‘Like the Finest Oil’ – Erra and Egalkura	Johnny Samuele Baldi The Social Organisation of the Early-Migrating Grandparents and the Struggle to Manage a “Writingless Urbanisation”. A Perspective between the Zagros Piedmont and Southern Mesopotamia	Zachary Rubin Remembering and Forgetting the Past in the Late Babylonian Period
14:30–15:00	Rudi Mayr Ayakala, a Problem of Seals and Dates	Lola Lombard New Perspectives on the Socio-Institutional Context of the Ephemerides	Josué-Javier Justel Vicente The Use of Databases for Nuzi Texts: New Projects and Resources	Selena Wisnom, Johannes Bach, Nikita Artemov Final Discussion	Shokouh Khosravi, Sajjad Alibaigi Central Zagros and Proto- Historic Seal and Sealings from Mahidasht Plain; Evidence from an Administrative Center along the High Road	Jonathan Price Lands Old and New: Cultural and Geographical Memory in the Sargon Geography
15:00–15:30	Final Discussion	Chaya Kasif Language and the Divinatory Interpretation of Human Sexuality	Jeanette C. Fincke General Discussion		Aidai Sonunbekova Tracing Human Mobility and Cultural Interactions in Transcaucasia, Southeastern Arabia, and Zagros Mountains during the Bronze Age and Iron Age	John Nielsen Residential Property as Sites of Memory in Babylonia
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:30	IAA General Meeting (room P131)

19:00-22:00	Reception (Karolinum; Locacion in Google maps)

Friday, July 11
	P131	P200	P300	P301	P104	P018	P217
	W13: Society, Geography, and Chronology through Prosopography chair: Rients de Boer	W23: Akkadian Linguistics chair: Eran Cohen	W10: “Kings Born to Be Wild”: Current Research on Sumerian Royal Panegyrics chair: Jana Matuszak	General Track chair: Jeanette C. Fincke	W22: Archaeology of Texts chair: Adam Miglio	W20: Cultural Memory in the Ancient Near East chair: Zachary Rubin
9:00–9:30	Ilya Arkhipov Dāriš-Libūr: A Steward, a Courtier and Perhaps an Eminence Grise at the Mari Court	Iris Kamil Decoding Morphology, Defining Semantics: A New (and Simple!) Manual to the Akkadian Verb	Luděk Vacín Discussion in Lieu of an Introduction: On the Fortunes of an Incipit List (YBC 3654)	Matthew Ong Broad-Scale Patterns in the Distribution of Ethnic Names in the Neo-Assyrian Oracc Corpus	Paul Delnero Elementary Sign Lists in the Western Periphery in the Late Bronze Age	Ben Dewar Ancient Time Stamps: The “Distinction” of Architectural Alterations in Neo-Assyrian Thought
9:30–10:00	Elisabetta Cianfanelli Prosopography in Context: Some Data on the Ebla Carpenters	Naama Pat-El, Øyvind Bjøru The Transformation of the Assyrian Conjunction Ammar	Anna Glenn “Hymns from Days Gone By, Ancient Things of Old”: The Textualization of Ur III Liturgies in the Old Babylonian Period	Ada Cattani Akkadian Plant-Related Loanwords in Rabbinic Hebrew: A Case of Inner-Semitic Lexical Interference	Ludovica Bertolini The Transmission of Mesopotamian Lexical Lists in the Late Bronze Age: A Comparative Analysis	Leopoldo Fox-Zampiccoli Crafts of Memory across Syro-Hittite Polities (1200-700 BCE)
10:00–10:30	Nathan Steinmeyer When the Troops Stayed: A Prosopography of the Late Old Babylonian Fortress of Dūr-Abiešuḫ	Alba de Ridder Genitival Constructions in Akkadian Literary Texts	Daniel Sánchez Muñoz Music and the Public Image of Kings in Ancient Mesopotamia. Reflections on Sulgi B & C and Išmē-Dagān A+V	Kabalan Moukarzel The Last Ēntu Princess in Ur: En-nigaldi-Nanna	Arsenij Uspenskij Towards the Nature of the “Red-Dots Notation” in the Amarna Recensions of the “Adapa and the Southwind” (EA 356) and the “Nergal and Ereškigal” (EA 357).	Discussion
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break
	W13: Society, Geography, and Chronology through Prosopography chair: Ilya Arkhipov	W23: Akkadian Linguistics chair: Na’ama Pat-El	W10: “Kings Born to Be Wild”: Current Research on Sumerian Royal Panegyrics chair: Klaus Wagensonner		W22: Archaeology of Texts chair: František Válek
11:00–11:30	Alessandra Lovato Brewers in Kassite Babylonia (14th-13th cent. BC): A Prosopographic Analysis of the Archive of Dūr-Enlilē	Eran Cohen The Syntax of Direct Reported Discourse in Old Babylonian	Rachel Webberman “I Swing My Arms Like a Dove”: Techniques of Running in the Hymns of Šulgi		Jana Mynářová Investigating the Origin and Context of the Amarna Salutation Formula
11:30–12:00	Fiammetta Gori A Prosopographical Study of Gud-ti, Šar-mi-lu, and Zu₂-ša-bir: Three Foreigners involved in Ebla’s Gold Supply	Kilian Moreau “Inheritance” or “Grant”? A Reassessment of the Semantics of Akkadian Naḫālum and Niḫlatum in Light of Comparative West Semitic Evidence for the Cognate Root √NḤL	Ben Fleuss Šulgi H: Three Hymns of Plenty		Jacob Lauinger The Prostration Formula in Late Bronze Age Letters: Transmission, Innovation, and Resistance
12:00–12:30	Rients de Boer Observations on Early Old Babylonian Theophoric Names	Amer Najm The Difficulties that Assyriologists Face in Distinguishing between the Zet (Z) and Ṣāde (Ṣ) Sounds in Cuneiform Records			Alexander Johannes Edmonds A Rediscovered Stele Fragment from the Assyrian ‘Dark Age’
12:30–14:00	Lunch Break
	W13: Society, Geography, and Chronology through Prosopography chair: Elisabetta Cianfanelli	W23: Akkadian Linguistics chair: Na’ama Pat-El	W10: “Kings Born to Be Wild”: Current Research on Sumerian Royal Panegyrics chair: Vitali Bartash		W22: Archaeology of Texts chair: Ludovica Bertolini
14:00–14:30	Khana Mohammed, Ardalan Khwshnaw Building the House: Analyzing Housing Measures in a New Old Babylonian Document from Hammurabi’s Reign	Kogan Leonid New Etymological Insights into Eblaite Vocabulary	Aviya Fraenkel From the Cattle Pen to the Horned Starry Sky ‒ Everyday Life of a Royal Metaphor		František Válek Motifs of Drought in Ugaritic Narratives
14:30–15:00		Mohammad Raza Haider Language Contact and (Re)-Creation: The Case of Achaemenid Babylonian	Luděk Vacín “diĝir šà-ne-ša4-a enim ma-ab-ĝar-ra” or “Divina Favente Clemencia”: Prolegomenon to a Comparative Perspective on Sumerian and Medieval Court Literature		Adam Miglio The Evolution of the Flood Story in the Gilgamesh Epic: A View from Syria
15:00–15:30		Mustafa Mehsen Mohammed The Rare Stems in the Akkadian Language: A Comparative Study with Arabic Language			Bernhard Schneider On the Archaeology of the „Siege Tablets“ Hoard from Nippur
15:30-16:00	Closing Ceremony (room P131)

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Tuesday, July 8
	P131	P200	P300	P301	P104	P018	P217
11:30–12:00			Charlotte Fernandes Cancelled: Why You and Not Me? Struggle for Influence and Power at Emar
16:30–17:00						Fernando Contreras, Makinson, M., Alonso, A., Boraik, M., Bader Mohammed Al Ali, Zein, H., Manal Abdullah Al Masfari Cancelled: The Incised Arrowheads from the Al-Qusais Necropolis (Dubai, UAE): Pictographic Elements of an Archaic Script?

Wednesday, July 9
	P131	P200	P300	P301	P104	P018	P217
9:30–10:00	Jaafar Jotheri Cancelled: To What Extent did Salinity Contribute to the Decline of Empires in Southern Mesopotamia?
12:00–12:30					Lisa Wilhelmi Cancelled: „To Puduḫepa, My Sister, Speak!”

Thursday, July 10
	P131	P200	P300	P301	P104	P018	P217
10:00–10:30				Julia Tulaikov Cancelled: Various Aspects of Transtextuality in Emesal Balaĝs: Textual Connections and Genre Intersections

Friday, July 11
	P131	P200	P300	P301	P104	P018	P217
12:00–12:30			David Eich Cancelled: Reasoning in Poetry: Enumeration in Sumerian Royal Hymns
15:00–15:30	Lectures in W13 have been shifted; see the updated program