AWOL - The Ancient World Online: July 2026

Sprachwissenschaftliche und kulturhistorische Reflexionen: Festschrift zu Ehren von Jörg Klinger

Editor(s): Czichon, Rainer M.; Fischer, Sebastian; Kitazumi, Tomoki

Die vorliegende Festschrift „Sprachwissenschaftliche und kulturgeschichtliche Reflexionen“ wurde Prof. Dr. Jörg Klinger anlässlich seiner Emeritierung im März 2026 von seinen Kollegen und Schülern überreicht. Die 35 Aufsätze beschäftigen sich mit der Forschungsgeschichte und verschiedenen Aspekten der Keilschrifttexte und gemalten Hieroglyphen aus Boğazköy, mit ungelösten hethitischen und hurritischen Übersetzungsproblemen, mit historischen, politischen, mythologischen und kultischen Fragen, mit den Siegeln der hethitischen Royals und dem Denken hethitischer Könige, mit Governance auf Ägyptisch und den hethitisch-assyrischen Beziehungen, mit dem hethitischen Kernland ebenso wie mit den nördlichen und südöstlichen Nachbarn, mit kultischen Inventaren in Nerik und Kayalıpınar und einer bronzezeitlichen Variante des Schädelkultes. Auch das Wassermanagement in Anatolien, das nichts von seiner Aktualität eingebüßt hat, wird thematisiert.
The present Festschrift "Linguistic and Cultural-Historical Reflections" was presented to Prof. Jörg Klinger by his colleagues and students on the occasion of his retirement in March 2026. The 35 contributions address the research history and various aspects of the cuneiform texts and painted hieroglyphs from Boğazköy, unresolved Hittite and Hurrian translation problems, historical, political, mythological, and cultic questions, the seals of the Hittite royals and the thought of Hittite kings, Egyptian governance and Hittite-Assyrian relations, the Hittite heartland as well as its northern and south-eastern neighbors, cult inventories in Nerik and Kayalıpınar, and a Bronze Age variant of skull worship. The topic of water management in Anatolia, which remains highly relevant today, is also explored.

Identifier:
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/52566
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-52296
urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-refubium-52566-9
ISBN (print): 978-3-935012-73-7

Year of publication:
2026
Available Date:
2026-06-05T06:21:49Z
Publisher:
PeWe-Verlag
Publisher Place:
Gladbeck
Department/institution:
Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
Institut für Altorientalistik
Series/Multivolume:
Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient
Series/Multivolume Number:
31

Libri greci e greco-copti nel monachesimo egiziano

Luca De Curtis

Christian Egypt has preserved numerous book remains, often fragmentary, which testify to an intense production and circulation of manuscripts within monastic communities, despite the ambivalent monastic attitude toward books. Alongside literary sources, papyri and ostraca provide information on the material aspects of codices, while surviving manuscripts allow a direct analysis of book production. From the fourth century onward, a significant production of Greek–Coptic bilingual codices developed, initially miscellaneous and later mainly shaped by liturgical needs, continuing until the eleventh century. Biblical texts prevail, especially the Psalms and the Gospels, often in the form of lectionaries. From a palaeographical perspective, these codices are not digraphic: Greek and Coptic share the same graphic types, allowing the development of Greek script to be traced within the specific context of Christian Egypt.

Edizioni dell’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli»

DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0960-1

Gender and Iconography in Antiquity: Femininities, Masculinities, Ambiguities, and Beyond in the Ancient Levant, Near East, and Mediterranean

Bruno Biermann (Hg.), Laura Gonnermann (Hg.), Izaak Jozias de Hulster (Hg.)

Vetus Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus - Band 005

The ancient Levant, Near East, and Mediterranean abounded in images of bodies. These bodies, whether human or animal, explicitly gendered or ambiguously rendered, shaped and reflected ancient concepts of power, status, and identity. Scholarship has often read them through binary and modern Western lenses, focusing on the female body as an object of the interpreter’s gaze while neglecting masculinities, ambiguities, and fluidities alike. The authors of this volume explore how visual media construct but also destabilise gender across time, culture, and material form by mapping visualizations of masculinity and femininity, challenging binary models, and combining iconographic, archaeological, epigraphic, and textual analyses. The contributions foreground the visual as a vital historical source, one that not only complements but also questions textual traditions, and highlights the materiality and context of objects as key to understanding how gender came to matter in the ancient world.

Sicherheits- und Produktressourcen:

Sprache: Englisch

VI, 319 Seiten, with 54 b/w and 67 col. fig., Onlinequelle (E-Library)

ISBN: 978-3-666-57371-2

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1. Edition, 2026

Corpus of Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant. Volume VI: Lachish, Lod, Lohamei HaGeta'ot

Uehlinger C., Koch I., Münger S., Schroer S.

Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Series Archaeologica, 42

The Corpus of Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant (CSSL) continues the Corpus der Stempelsiegel-Amulette aus Palästina/Israel (CSAPI), introduced by Othmar Keel in 1995 with a groundbreaking introductory volume (OBO.SA 10: Einleitung) and pursued from 1997 to 2017 with five massive catalogue volumes (OBO.SA 13, 29, 31, 33, 35). CSAPI I-V listed 8250 stamp seals and stamp seal impressions; additional 591 items were published by Jürg Eggler and Othmar Keel in their Corpus der Siegelamulette aus Jordanien (OBO.SA 25, 2006). The present volume, dubbed CSSL VI to underline continuity in purpose, is the first of a series aiming to bring Keel’s Corpus to completion. Adding another 947 objects, it brings the total of published items to 9788. Virtually all (945) are from Lachish, a major Canaanite, later Judahite site during the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Due to the expanded format of both textual description and visual documentation, CSSL VI is published in two parts. While basic principles of Keel’s volumes are maintained for the sake of consistency, some aspects have been significantly modified. First and foremost, CSSL is the product of a collective endeavour, resulting from the commitment of more than a dozen junior and senior researchers. In terms of form and content, CSSL is published entirely in English; stamp seals are whenever possible documented in six photographic views, many hundreds of them in new colour photographs, which allow a better grasp of the original objects and their present state of preservation. The objects are discussed in detail following a rigorous analytical protocol, which values the description of the base engravings but puts equal emphasis on the objects’ material characteristics and the archaeological context from which they were retrieved. Perhaps most significant in terms of continuity and innovation, CSSL retains a sustainable book format, but the corpus is released simultaneously as a fully searchable, open access digital database.