Mesopotamian temple inventories in the third and second millennia BCE: Integrating archaeological, textual, and visual sources

Internationale Tagung unter Leitung von Dr. Jean Evans, Dr. Paola Paoletti und Dr. Elisa Roßberger

Tagungsort: Centre for Advanced Studies, Seestr. 13, 80802 München

Monday, November 14th

13:00 Welcome (Walther Sallaberger, München)
13:05 A World of Things: Revisiting Mesopotamian Temple Inventories (Elisa Roßberger, München)
13:30 The Inventory of the Temple at Tell Bazi, Syria (Adelheid Otto/Berthold Einwag, München)
14:00 Die Tempelinventare aus der Oberstadt von Boğazköy-Hattusa: hethitische Tempelanlagen als Kultstätten und Wirtschaftseinheiten (Susanne Herbordt, Leipzig)
14:30 The Ganunmah/Enunmah in Ur – a Reevaluation of the Building and Its Inventory (Aaron Schmitt, Mainz)

15:00 Coffee Break

15:20 The Inventory of the Sin Temple at Khafajeh: Innovation and Tradition (Jean Evans, Chicago)
15:50 Temple Inventories in Mari during Early Dynastic Times. Ištar-Uš, Ninni-Zaza and Ištarat: Three Temples for Three Goddesses (Sophie Cluzan, Paris)
16:20 Inscribed Objects from the Early Dynastic Temple of Inanna in Nippur (Lorenzo Verderame, Rom)
16:50 History as Ritual in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia (Paul Collins, Oxford)
17:20 – 18:00 First discussion

Tuesday, November 15th

9:00 Ištar-Kitītum and Old Babylonian Dedicatory Practices (Paola Paoletti, München)
9:30 The Gift Texts from Ur in the Old Babylonian Period: A Mesopotamian Temple Inventory? (Michèle Maggio, Lüttich/Heidelberg)
10:00 Zimri-Lim Offers a Throne to Dagan (Ilya Arkhipov, Moskau)

10:30 Coffee Break

10:50 Votive Practices in the Temple of Aššur in the 3^rd and Early 2^_nd Millennium BC (Helen Gries, Berlin)
11:20 For the Sake of Remembrance: Inscribed Dedicatory Objects in the Middle Assyrian period (Julia Müller-Klieser, Mainz)
11:50 Second discussion

12:30 Lunch

14:00 "Private" Sanctuaries in Southern Mesopotamia, End of the Third to Beginning of the Second Millennium BC (Frances Pinnock, Rom)
14:30 Platforms, Podia and Other Vertical Features at Entrances into Sanctuaries (Martin Gruber, München)

15:00 Coffee Break

15:20 Iconography of Religion: God – Cult Statue – Image (Albert Dietz, München)
15:50 Visual Representations of the Cult Statue of Šamaš (Anna Kurmangaliev, München)
16:20 – 17:00 Third discussion