THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM THE INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE DEDICATED TO THE CENTENARY OF IGOR MIKHAILOVICH DIAKONOFF 13.01.2015 – 15.01.2015 PROGRAM 13 JANUARY, TUESDAY 10.30 Registration The State Hermitage Museum, Council Hall 11.00 Morning session The State Hermitage Museum, Council Hall Welcoming speech by General Director of the State Hermitage Museum, Mikhail B. Piotrovsky Memories of Igor Mikhailovich Diakonoff J. Nicholas Postgate (University of Cambridge, Great Britain) The Nabû Temple at Kal¶u and Its Clientele Leonid E. Kogan (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia) Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian: The First Results of the Long-term German-Russian Project 12.30-13.00 Break Xianhua Wang (Sichuan University, China) Mesopotamian Temples before the Sumerian Temple City Vladimir V. Avrutis (Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel) Egyptian - South Levantine Interrelations in the Early Bronze Age. Perspective from Nesher–Ramla Quarry, Israel Juliette Mas (Liège University, Belgium) Private versus Official? New Hypotheses for the Reconstruction of Bronze Age Upper Mesopotamian Economic System Ekaterina V. Markina (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia) Royal Presence at Gasur 15.00-16.00 Break 16.00 Afternoon session The State Hermitage Museum, Council Hall Veronika K. Afanasieva (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia) Temple in the Sumerian Literature Vladimir V. Emelianov (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) Punitive Expulsion in Gudea Texts Sergey V. Grigorishin (Nizhyn Gogol State University, Ukraine) Towards Discussions on the Canonicity of the Sumerian Literary Texts from Nippur Rim M. Nurullin (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia) Towards the Interpretation of the Toponym Úamrān in the Old Babylonian Version of the Epic of Gilgamesh 14 JANUARY, WEDNESDAY 10.30 Morning session The State Hermitage Museum, Council Hall Nelli V. Kozyreva (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia) City Population of the Southern Mesopotamia at the Beginning of the 2nd Millennium B.C. Marina A. Redina-Thomas (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia) Toponyms and Field-Plans in Middle-Babylonian Documents from Nippur Alexandr A. Nemirovsky (Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia) The Zagros and Trans-Zagros Directions in the Foreign Policy of Kassite Babylonia (16th-13th cc. B.C.) Boris E. Alexandrov (Moscow State University, Russia) Hittite Letters from the Büyükkale Building A in Boğazköy / Ḫattuša 12.30-13.00 Break Vladimir J. Shelestin (Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia) The Paleography of Kizzuwatna Cuneiform Documents Margarit L. Khachikyan (Institute for Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences, Erevan, Armenia) Was the Language of the Hurrian Inscription from Urkesh Ergative? Isabelle Klock-Fontanille (Université de Limoges, France) About Ergativity in Hattian Language 14.30-15.30 Break 15.30 Afternoon session The State Hermitage Museum, Council Hall Alexandr V. Safronov (Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia) Late Bronze Age Migrations in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean in the Studies by I.M. Diakonoff and the Present State of Research into this Area Simone Bonzano (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) How Urartian Kings Developed a Social Model to Build a Regional State among the Mountains of Transcaucasia Inna N. Medvedskaya (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia) Urartians in the Urmia Basin (Iran) 17.00-17.30 Break Selim Ferruh Adalı (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) The Scythian State in the Ancient Near East during the 7th c. B.C. 18.00 Film Show "The Kirkenes Ethics. Igor Mikhailovich Diakonoff" by Aleksey Jankowski. The State Hermitage Museum, Council Hall 15 JANUARY, THURSDAY 11.00 Morning session The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Green Hall Natalie Naomi May (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) The Scholar and Politics: the Colophons of Nabû-zuqup-kēnu and the Ideology of Sargon II Olga V. Popova (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) Royal Family and Its Territorial Implantation during the Neo-Babylonian Period Nadezhda O. Czechowicz (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia) About Nabonid’s Campaign to Tayma 12.30-13.00 Break Serge A. Frantsouzoff (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia) Heiresses in Emar and the Ancient Yemen: Towards the Problem of Emariote Influence on the South Arabian Civilisation Marat M. Yunusov (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia) The Collection of Punic Stelae at the State Hermitage: Composition and Provenance Miroslav Izdimirski (Institute of Balkan Studies with Center of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria) Motherhood in Persepolis Fortification Texts 14.30-15.30 Break 15.30 Afternoon session The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Green Hall Adel V. Nemirovskaya (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) The Canaanite Consonants’ Repertoire in the Light of the Origins of the West Semitic Alphabet Anna G. Belova (Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia) Root Structure and the Verbal Paradigm in Arabic Olga V. Stolbova (Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia) New Chado-Semitic Lexical Parallels Aleksey I. Jankowski (“Alexander” Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia) The Charm of Umma |