Signs of Crisis in Ancient Near Eastern Texts

8-9 December 2016
Salle du Conseil , Collège Erasme
Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

Welcome

Session 1 : Anatolia in Crisis (chair : Lambert Isebaert)

René Lebrun & Jan Tavernier (Université catholique de Louvain), La crise arzawéenne

Étienne Van Quickelberghe (Université catholique de Louvain), L’Isuwa au 13^e siècle av. J.-C.: la crise du Haut Euphrate à travers les relations assyro-hittites

Session 2 : Crisis in Elam and Mesopotamia (chair : Lambert Isebaert)

Gian Pietro Basello (L’Orientale – University of Naples), « Disappearing into its mountains »: Elamite kingship in times of crisis

Michael Kozuh (Auburn University), A Crisis Averted: Reverberations from Extraordinary Demands on the Temple Economy in mid-First Millennium BC Babylonia