Programme

Grandmother’s Tablets. Some Reflections on Female Landowners in Nuzi

Chair: Agnès Garcia-Ventura

Engendered Cosmic Spaces in Ancient Mesopotamian Myths

Looking for Gendered Spaces: The Case of Babylon in the First Millennium BC

Of Cities, Mothers, and Homes. A Cognitive-Stylistic Approach to Gendered Space in the Hebrew Bible

Chair: Megan Cifarelli

Images Divinely Sanctioned Neo-Assyrian Queenship at Nimrud’s Northwest Palace

Arabian Queens: Constructs of Gender and Ethnicity in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Soldier of Scholar? Competing Masculinities in the Representation of Ashurbanipal

Chair: Saana Svärd

Probing the Boundaries of Mesopotamian Heteronormativity: The Case of Tablet 103

Women in Cult in Mesopotamia

“Perhaps it Was Always Already Gender:” Dressed Bodies in the Archaeological Record

Chair: Katrien De Graef

The Late Bronze Age in Syria: Was It a Dark Age for Women?

Entangled at Death: Beads, Gender, and the Dead at Early Neolithic Așıkh Höyük

Queering the Past. The Case of the Goddess on Lion at Hasanlu

Chair: Anne Goddeeris

Ecce Feminae: Excavating at the Convent of Notre Dame of Sion and the Arch of Ecce Homo on Jerusalem’s Via Dolorosa

Women Talking about Women: Digging the Memory of Women in Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Chair: Beth Alpert-Nakhai

The Aroma of Majesty: Gender and the Hebrew Bible’s Olfactory Cultic Theology

Lamentations as Indictments of Masculinity: The Complexity of Gender Performance

Vanishing Point: Perspectivity on Women in the Book of Exodus

Chair: Brigitte Lion

Rituals of Mothering and Fathering in Phoenician Sacred Places

Performing Beauty in Phoenician in Punic Cultures: A Gender Perspective

Chair: Ann K. Guinan

Women’s Property and Social Networks in Mesopotamia

Women and their Weight. Incorporating Weighted Nodes in a Network Analysis of the Central Redistributive Household of Old Babylonian Nippur

Socio-Historical Insights into Women at Elephantine according to the Aramaic Documentary Sources

Chair: Frances Pinnock

Zinû, Wife and Manager in Old Babylonian Larsa

Seals on Heels. The Sealing Practice of Female Economic Actors in Old Babylonian Sippar

Was It Law? Gender Relations and Legal Practice in the Ancient Near East

Chair: Natalie N. May

Women Involved in Daily Management in Achaemenid Babylonia: The Cases of Rē’indu and Andiya

The Scorpion and the Spider: Gendered Identities in Early Literate Seals and Sealings

Women’s Participation in Socio-Economic Activities in Pre-Sargonic Lagash

Presentation and Discussion of Ongoing Projects on Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East

Presentation of “Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East vol II” (proceedings of Barcelona meeting) & Planning of 4^th Workshop in Helsinki (2021)