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Learned magic and therapeutic practice in first-millennium Babylonia

December 4th, 2025, 4 PM c.t. CET

University of Naples 'L'Orientale'

Antisala degli Specchi, Palazzo Corigliano, Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, 12, Naples

and on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84253738581

Daniel Schwemer (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

Learned magic and therapeutic practice in first-millennium Babylonia: The case of the ritual House-of-Enclosure (Bīt mēseri)

All are welcome!

International Conference “Religious atmospheres in Hittite Anatolia and the Ancient Near East”

University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Palazzo Corigliano, Sala Conferenze, Piazza S. Domenico Maggiore 12, Naples - November 5-7, 2025

Link: https://www.unior.it/it/eventi/international-conference-religious-atmospheres-hittite-anatolia-and-ancient-near-east

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Introduction to the Hurrian language and texts

A seminar by Ilya Yakubovich (Philipps-Universität Marburg; visiting scholar CEISMA 2025)

No prior knowledge required.

2 CFU (AAF CdS MAA & MAC); included among the activities of the PhD programme AAM.

Calendar: 21 October 2025: 14–18; 24 October, 4, 7, 18 November: 16–18.

Venue: Palazzo Corigliano, Antisala degli Specchi (IV floor) -- Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, 12, Naples.

Programme:

Hurrians in historical sources. Analysis of Hurrian onomastics.
Survey of the texts in the Hurrian language. Writing systems used for rendering Hurrian and interpretation of Hurrian phonology.
Hurrian nominal morphology. Readings from the Hurrian parables.
Mitanni Hurrian verbal morphology. Readings from the Mittani letter.
Boğazköy Hurrian verbal morphology. Readings from the Song of Release.
Hurrian dialects and Urartian. Reading the Old Hurrian Tish-Atal inscription and a Urartian royal inscription.

Seminari dottorali sul Vicino Oriente Antico 2025

6 marzo, Antisala degli Specchi, IV piano, ore 14:00
Matteo Delle Donne (Napoli), “Il ruolo delle risorse vegetali nell'economia di Tell Mozan, Siria, tra IV e III millennio a.C.”

13 marzo, Sala Conferenze, II piano, ore 10:30
Nicolò Marchetti (Bologna), “Nuove scoperte e archeologia pubblica a Ninive”

20 marzo, Antisala degli Specchi, IV piano, ore 9:00
Stefan Baums (Monaco), “Gandhāran Manuscripts and Inscriptions: Problems of Text and Context”

28 marzo, Sala Conferenze, II piano, ore 12:30
Pia Brancaccio (Napoli), “Documentare l'antica Krishnagiri: le grotte buddhiste di Kanheri, India”

1 aprile, Sala Conferenze, II piano, ore 15:00
Pavol Hnila (Heidelberg), “High Mountains as Cultural Landscape. Interrelations Between Pastoralism, Cult, and Climate Change in Prehistoric Armenia”

3 aprile, Antisala degli Specchi, IV piano, ore 15:00
Palmiro Notizia (Bologna), “Forme del credito e reti sociali nella Mesopotamia del terzo millennio”

9 aprile, Sala Conferenze, II piano, ore 17:00
Elisabeth Rieken (Marburg), “Filling the Linguistic Map of Ancient Anatolia. On the Methods of Deciphering the Kalašma Tablet”

10 aprile, Antisala degli Specchi, IV piano, ore 14:00
Piotr Steinkeller (Harvard), “The Sumerian Composition ‘Gilgamesh and Akka’: A New Translation and Interpretation”

Seminari dottorali sul Vicino Oriente Antico 2024

12 aprile, 12:00 Andrea Manzo (Napoli): Il progetto Mar Rosso quarant’anni dopo. Metodologie, paradigmi, prospettive.

18 aprile, 16:00 Maria Guagnin (Oxford): Rock art and lived Holocene environmental changes in Saudi Arabia.

9 maggio, 15:00 Sara Pizzimenti (Pisa): Nascita e sviluppo di una megacity. Tecniche e metodologie di indagine del paesaggio urbano nella Mesopotamia meridionale del III millennio a.C.. Il caso di al-Hiba/Lagash.

16 maggio, 15:00 Michele Minardi (Napoli): Il retaggio culturale achemenide in Asia Centrale e India nel periodo successivo alla conquista di Alessandro.

30 maggio, 15:00 Manuel Molina (Madrid): Le forze di polizia nell'antica Sumer.

6 giugno, 15:00 Giulia Torri (Firenze): La società anatolica alla luce del testo delle Leggi ittite.

The Bilingual of Karatepe: Luwian and Phoenician in Context

Seminario nell’ambito del Dottorato Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo / Programma Erasmus+

6–8 & 13–15 marzo 2024 (Mer 6, Gio 7, Ven 8: 14–16; Mer 13: 15–17, Gio 14: 16–18, Ven 15: 9–11)

A cura di: Dr Vera Tsukanova (Semitic Studies) & Dr Ilya Yakubovich (Indo-European Studies), Philipps-Universität Marburg. Referente: Michele Cammarosano. Requisiti di partecipazione: nessuno (nozioni di luvio, fenicio o una lingua affine, p.es. ittito, ebraico, ugaritico, sono utili).

Sinossi: The Luwian and Phoenician bilingual of KARATEPE, commemorating the historical events in the Neo-Hittite principality of Que (8th cent. BCE), represents the longest inscription in either of the two languages, in which it was composed. The seminar will demonstrate how a close reading of a bilingual inscription can contribute to the better understanding of both languages as well as their sociolinguistic relationships.

Programma: h 1–2: Introduction to the Syro-Anatolian states, the use of Phoenician in Syria and Anatolia. h 3–10: Close reading (text and translation will be provided). h 11–12: Discussion of the correspondences between the Luwian and Phoenician versions, the implied direction of translation and its techniques.