Susa and Elam. Archaeological, Philological, Historical and Geographical Perspectives

Katrien De Graef, Ph.D. (2004) in Assyriology, Ghent University, is Research Fellow with the Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders. She has published extensively on 2nd millennium BC socio-economic history of Susa, including two MDP volumes on the tablets excavated by Ghirshman.Jan Tavernier, Ph.D. (2002) in Oriental Studies, University of Leuven, is currently Chargé de Cours at the Centre d'Etudes Orientales Université Catholique de Louvain. His research domains are Elamite and Iranian languages and history, history of the Achaemenid Empire and Language History of the First Millennium B.C., domains on which he has published frequently, inter alia Iranica in the Achaemenid period (ca. 550-330 B.C.). Lexicon of Old Iranian proper names and loanwords, attested in non-Iranian texts (2007).

• Part I: Archaeological and Carchaeological-Historical PerspectivesChapter 1: New South-East Iranian Glyptic Evidence Enrico AscaloneChapter 2: New Evidences on Emergence of Complex Societies in the Central Iranian Plateau M. Hessari and R. Yousefi ZoshkChapter 3: The Trans-Tigridian Corridor in the Early Third Millennium BC Steve RenetteChapter 4: Elam and Eshnunna. Historical and Archaeological Interrelations during the Old Babylonian Period Luca PeyronelChapter 5: Transferts culturels de la Babylonie vers Suse au milieu du 2e millénaire av. n. Ère Hermann GascheChapter 6: Elams Kulturkontakte mit seinen Nachbarn im Spiegel der Glyptik des 2. Jahrtausends v. Chr. Georg NeumannChapter 7: In the Shadow of Kurangun: Cultural Developments in the Highlands between Khuzestan and Anšan Daniel T. PottsChapter 8: Essai d’application de la méthode de la psychologie environnementale à travers l’exemple de la ville méso-élamite de Dûr-untaš (Tchoga-zanbil, Iran), site inscrit au patrimoine monial de l’Unesco Zsolt G. LantosChapter 9: Some Chronological Aspects of the Building Structures at Haft Tappeh Nasrabadi Behzad MofidiChapter 10: Distribution, Materials and Functions of the “Wall Knobs” in the Near Eastern Late Bronze Age: from South-Western Iran to the Middle Euphrates Françelin TourtetChapter 11: Re-assessing Elamite Highland Boundaries: New Evidence for the Middle and Neo-Elamite Periods in the Mamasani Valleys, South-Western Iran Bernadette McCallChapter 12: Braids of Glory. Elamite SCulptural Reliefs from the Highlands: Kūl-e Farah IV Javier Alvarez-MonChapter 13: From Susa to Persepolis: The Pseudo-Sealing of the Persepolis Bronze Plaque Gian Pietro BaselloChapter 14: Seal Impressions from Susa. Re-evaluating Some of the Findings in Susa Available in the National Museum of Iran and Introducing Some Unpublished Samples Sedigheh PiranPart II: Philological, Philological-Historical and Historical PerspectivesChapter 15: Ur-Nammâ(k)’s Conquest of Susa Gianni MarchesiChapter 16: Puzur-Inšušinak at Susa: A Pivotal Episode of Early Elamite History reconsidered Piotr SteinkellerChapter 17: Les premiers sukkalmah et des derniers rois de Simaški Jean-Jacques GlassnerChapter 18: La «suprématie Élamite» sur les Amorrites. Réexamen, vingt ans après la XXXVIe RAI (1989) Jean-Marie DurandChapter 19: «Ainsi parle l’empereur» à propos de la correspondance des sukkalmah Dominique CharpinChapter 20: Prosopographische Untersuchungen anhand der Rechtsurkunden aus Susa Sadafi Sheyda JalilvandChapter 21: Scribal Training in Old Babylonian Susa Mehrnoush MalayeriChapter 22: Abiešuh, Elam and Ashurbanipal: New Evidence from Old Babylonian Sippar Frans van KoppenChapter 23: Sugirs of Anšan Matthew W. StolperChapter 24: Approche historique et philologique du titre royal ‘likame/we rišakki’ Stéphanie Anthonioz and Florence Malbran-LabatChapter 25: Beziehungen zweier Groβmächte – Elam und Babylonien in der 2. Hälfte des 2. Jt. v. Chr. Ein Beitrag zur internen Chronologie Susanne PaulusChapter 26: Dynamics of the Fall: Ashurbanipal’s Conquest of Elam Peter DubovskyChapter 27: Elamite and Iranian Afterlife Concepts Jan TavernierPart III: Geographical PerspectivesChapter 28: Geoarchaeological Research in Lower Khuzestan: State of the Art Vanessa M.A. Heyvaert, Peter Verkinderen and Jan Walstra