Journal of Near Eastern Studies

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:Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture	7
:Life at Court: Ideology and Audience in the Late Assyrian Palace	4
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:The Book of Travels	3
Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE. Proceedings of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Philadelphia, July 11–15, 2016. Edited by Grant Frame, Joshua Jeffers, and Holly Pittman. U	2
:The Islamic-Byzantine Border in History: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades	1
Présence et influence assyriennes dans le royaume de Hamat. By Adonice-Ackad Baaklin. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2021. Pp. xi + 371 + 246 figures + 30 tables. €58.00 (paper).	1
Soundscapes, Portentous Calls, and Bird Symbolism in the Gilgameš Epic	1
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Waiting for Müteferrika: Glimpses of Ottoman Print Culture. By Orlin Sabev. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. Pp. xxiii + 143 + 3 illustrations. $99.00 (cloth).	1
The Clay World of Çatalhöyük. By Chris Doherty. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. Pp. xv + 120 + 18 tables + 95 figures. £35.00 (paper).	1
Editor’s Note	1
:Pre-Islamic Arabia: Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities during Late Antiquity	1
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. By David Graeber and David Wengrow. New York: Macmillan Publishers, 2021. Pp. xii + 692 + 7 maps/figures. $35.00 (cloth).	1
Die Bestattungen der frühen und mittleren Bronzezeit in der zentralen Oberstadt von Tall Mozan/Urkeš: eine vergleichende Analyse zu den Bestattungspraktiken des Oberen Ḫabūrgebietes. By Anne Wi	1
The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics. Edited by Anousha Sedighi and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxii + 573. $150 (cloth).	1
:Suffering in Babylon: Ludlul bēl nēmiqi and the Scholars, Ancient and Modern	0
Die Sabäischen Inschriften aus Mārib: Katalog, Übersetzung und Kommentar. By Anne Multhoff. Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel Band 9. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2021. Pp	0
The Marking of Poetry: A Rare Vocalization System from an Early Qurʾān Manuscript in Chicago, Paris, and Doha	0
The Evolving Definition of “Word” in Early Northwest Semitic Writing: From ‏דברים‎ to ‏תיבות‎	0
The Bilingual Chiasmus: A Unique Rhetorical Device for “Knotting” Words in Sumerian-Akkadian Literature	0
:The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East: The Making of a Regional Identity	0
Salvation and Hell in Classical Islamic Thought: Can Allah Save Us All? By Marco Demichelis. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. viii + 229. $84.00 (cloth).	0
Painting the Mediterranean Phoenician: On Canaanite-Phoenician Trade-nets. By Dalit Regev. Sheffield: Equinox Publishers, 2021. Pp. xiii + 231 + 4 maps. £90.00/$125.00 (cloth).	0
Al-Jūzjānī’s Approach to Hadith Criticism and His “Antagonism toward ʿAlī”: A Comparative Analysis	0

The Material and Ideological Base of the Old Babylonian State: History, Economy and Politics. By Lukáš Pecha. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. Pp. xvii + 361. $121 (cloth).	0
Rebel’s Advocate: How Abū ʿUbayda Maʿmar b. al-Muthannā Came to be Labelled a Khārijite	0
Decorated Pottery in Cyprus and Philistia in the 12th Century BC, Cypriot IIIC and Philistine IIIC, Volumes I–II. By Penelope Mountjoy. Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterran	0
:Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawāṣib in Islamic Literature	0
:Tell Abada: An Ubaid Village in Central Mesopotamia	0
:The Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus: An Archaeology of Environmental and Social Change	0
What Did Ancient Egyptian Pictures Want?	0
Tel Beth-Shemesh: A Border Community in Judah. Renewed Excavations 1990–2000: The Iron Age. By Shlomo Bunimovitz and Zvi Lederman. 2 Vols. Tel Aviv University, Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute	0
Yahweh before Israel: Glimpses of History in a Divine Name. By Daniel E. Fleming. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xviii + 320 + 15 figures. $99.99 (cloth).	0
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The Hittite Gilgamesh. By Gary Beckman. The Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplemental Series 6. Atlanta: Lockwood Press for the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2019. Pp. xv + 95. $59.95	0
The Iranian Expanse. Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape and the Built Environment, 550 BCE–642 CE. By Matthew P. Canepa. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018.	0
The Representation of Emotions and Time in Ancient Egyptian Smiting Scenes	0
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Authority and Control in the Countryside: From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th to 10th Century). Edited by Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, and Petra M. Sijpesteijn. L	0
Existential Angst: Non-existential Use of ibašši in Neo-Assyrian	0
Aegyptiaca in der nördlichen Levante: Eine Studie zur Kontextualisierung und Rezeption ägyptischer und ägyptisierender Objekte in der Bronzezeit. By Alexander Ahrens. Orbis Biblicus et Oriental	0
:Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dār al-Khilāfa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq	0
The Basilica of Betä Sämaʿtiʾ in its Aksūmite, Early Christian, and Late Antique Context	0
Das ägyptische Alte Reich: Diskussionen zur “Ereignisgeschichte” der 3. bis 6. Dynastie. By Vera Blumenthal. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019. Pp. xv + 265 + 19 figures + 8 tables + 2 diagrams. 64	0
The Pasts of Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons. By Felipe Rojas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxi + 252 + 75 illustrations + 3 maps. $99.99 (cloth).	0
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:Purifying a House from Blood: A Hittite Ritual for the Ancient Gods (CTH 446)	0
The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia. By Shiyanthi Thavapalan. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 104. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. xiii + 509 + 30 plates. $163.00 (cloth).	0
The Date of the Arrival of the Judeans at Elephantine and the Foundation of Their Colony	0
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:Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500–1000 CE	0
:Türöffner des Himmels. Prosopographische Studien zur thebanischen Hohepriesterschaft der Ptolemäerzeit	0
:The “Haus am Hang” at Ḫattuša: A Late Hittite Scriptorium and Its Tablet Collection	0
New evidence regarding Emerald Production in Roman Egypt at Wadi Sikait (Eastern Desert)	0
Books, Corruption, and an Emir’s Downfall: The Founding of the Maḥmūdīyah Library in Mamluk Cairo	0
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The Virgin Annunciate in the Meccan Qurʾan: Q. Maryam 19:19 in Context	0
Life in An Egyptian Village in Late Antiquity: Aphrodito Before and After the Islamic Conquest. By Giovanni Ruffini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 233. $39.99 (cloth).	0
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:The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān: The Problem of Tawātur and the Emergence of Shawādhdh	0
:Pottery Making and Communities during the 5th Millennium BCE in Fars Province, Southwestern Iran	0
Animal Offerings and Cultic Calendar in the Neo-Babylonian Sippar. By Radosław Tarasewicz and Stefan Zawadzki. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 451. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2018. Pp. xxiv + 102	0
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The Ancient City of Giddan/Eddana (Anqa, Iraq), the “Forgotten Twin” of Dura-Europos	0
:Excavations at the Palatial Complex: Kerkenes Final Reports 2	0
A Study in the Syntax of the Luwian Language. By Federico Giusfredi. Texte der Hethiter. Philologische und historische Studien zur Altanatolistik 30. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2020. Pp. 227. €	0
Divinized Instruments and Divine Music: A Study in Occasional Deification	0
Exegeting Enoch: Re-inscribing a Mesopotamian Figure in the Yahwist Narrative	0
A Study of the Deity Elkunirša in Light of an Amulet from Ancient Samʾal	0
Der Palast in Nuzi: Studien zur formalen Struktur des Palastgebäudes und den Funktionen der Palastinstitution. By Hannah Mönninghoff. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 18. Wiesbaden:	0
Babylon between the Sealand, Syria, and the Zagros: Samsu-iluna’s last years	0
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Like a Runaway Slave: The Discourse of an Eighth-Century Muslim Ascetic	0
Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s Morning Toilette in Karnak	0

The Production of Salt in the Hittite Period and its Trade in Central and Northeastern Anatolia	0
:The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present	0
A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years. By ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī. Edited and translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith. Library of Arabic Literature. New Y	0
Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain. By Sarah Stroumsa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 248. $35.00 (cloth).	0
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Send Them to Me by This Little One: Child Letter-carriers in Coptic Texts from Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt	0
:The Practice of Canaanite Cult: The Middle and Late Bronze Ages	0
Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia: Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity. By Stephanie Langin-Hooper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 320 + 12 black and white illustrati	0
:Das Totenmahl in Syrien im 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Eine Untersuchung zur Bedeutung, Symbolik und Tradition eines altorientalischen Konzepts in philologischer, archäologischer und religionsgeschich	0
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The Graves of Tell Basmaya and New Insights into Kassite Burial Practices	0
The Price of Justice: Revenues Generated by Ottoman Courts of Law in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries	0
Dan IV: The Iron Age I Settlement. Avraham Biran Excavations 1966–1999. By David Ilan. Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, Volume XII. Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College-Je	0
The Qurʾan and its Biblical Reflexes: Investigations into the Genesis of a Religion. By Mark Durie. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. Pp. 394. $120.00 (cloth).	0
“Towards the Mountain Range that Gave Birth to Me …”: A Reconstructed širgida Song of Ninurta from Old Babylonian Nippur (Ninurta J/L)	0
A Paleo-Arabic Inscription of a Companion of Muhammad?	0
:Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia	0
The Ṣanʿāʾ Palimpsest: Materializing the Codices	0
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Xerxes I, an Heir of Assyria? The Daiva Inscription in Context	0
al-Hawāmil wa’l-shawāmil, The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century. By Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh. Edited by Bilal Orfali and Maurice A.	0
Early Geez Phonology as Reflected in ʔAbbā Garimā I	0
Domestic, Ephemeral, and Creative: Institutions in the EB II Upper Euphrates Region	0
The Geography of Trade. Landscapes of Competition and Long-distance Contacts in Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period. By Alessio Palmisano. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018. Pp.	0
Petteia, Kubeia, and Grammata: Thoth’s Connection with Senet and Knucklebones in Ancient Egypt	0
:Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt: Sources in Translation	0
The Babylonian šumma immeru Omens: Transmission, Reception and Text Production. By Yoram Cohen. Münster: Zaphon, 2020. Pp. xxiv + 406. €98 (cloth).	0
Unearthing Abraham’s Altar: The Cultic Dimensions ofdīn,islām, andḥanīfin the Qurʾan	0
:Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians	0
:Die Zitadelle von Dūr-Katlimmu in mittel- und neuassyrischer Zeit. Teil 1: Text. Teil 2: Katalog. Teil 3: Kassette mit 57 Farbtafeln und Faltplänen	0
A Synchronized Early Middle Bronze Age Chronology for Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia	0
Handbook of Ancient Nubia. Edited by Dietrich Raue. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xxii + 1111 + 250 illustrations. $320 (cloth).	0
Šurpu: The Missing Tablet	0
The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia: Hittite Sovereign Practice, Resistance, and Negotiation. By Claudia Glatz. Pp. xiii + 371 + 64 figures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.	0
Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near East. By Tyson L. Putthoff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 253. $99.99 (cloth).	0
:Akhbār Khadīja bint Khuwaylid fī al-maṣādir al-islāmiyya: Abniyat al-sard wa-l-dhākira wa-l-tārīkh	0
Sea and the Combat Myth: North West Semitic Political Mythology in the Hebrew Bible. By Joanna Töyräänvuori. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 427. Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2018. Pp. xiv + 622. €	0
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Bergesgleich baute ich hoch: Untersuchungen zur Architektur, Funktion und Bedeutung neuassyrischer Befestigungsanlagen. By Alexander Sollee. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 17. Wies	0
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:Descendants of a Lesser God: Regional Power in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt	0
A New Look at Old Numbers, and What It Reveals about Numeration	0
“The Garden of the Reasonable”: Religious Diversity Among Middle Eastern Physicians,ad1000–1500	0
A Wayside Shrine in Northern Moab: Excavations in Wadi ath-Thamad. Edited by P. M. Michèle Daviau and Margreet L. Steiner. Wadi Ath-Thamad Project I. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017. Pp. 272 + 120 fi	0
Patronage and Prestige in the Countryside: The case of the Church of Mār Domeṭ in medieval northern Mesopotamia	0
Playing with Persecution: Parallel Jewish and Christian Memories of Late Antiquity in Early Islamic Iraq	0
The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue. By Marina Rustow. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 624 + 83 color illustrations + 17 black and white illustrations	0
Perforated Astragali in the Levant and Four Babylonian Omens	0
:Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W.G. Lambert. Part Two	0
DhimmīBishops in a Muslim Polity: Endurance and Adaptation of Syriac Episcopal Leadership in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods	0
A Prophet has Appeared: The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish Eyes, A Sourcebook. By Stephen J. Shoemaker. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 320. $90 (cloth), $34.	0
Language Between God and the Poets: Maʿnā in the Eleventh Century. By Alexander Key. Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship 2. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. P	0
Erudite Savagery: Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal’s Account of the Siege of Babylon	0
Babylonian Hermeneutics and Heraclitus	0
:Monumentality, Place-Making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus	0
:Feuer und Stein: Gräber und Totenmonumente im eisenzeitlichen Nordsyrien und Südostanatolien in ihren regionalen Kontexten	0
New Evidence for an Early Islamic Arabic Dialect in Eastern Arabia? The Qaṭrāyīth (“in Qatari”) Spoken in Beth Qaṭraye	0
Reflexivity: The Cases of theNiphalandHithpael	0
Their Very Words? A Preliminary Evaluation of Reported Speech in the Qurʾan	0
Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam. By Sean William Anthony. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 287. $32.95 (cloth).	0
The Life of Simeon of the Olives: An Entrepreneurial Saint of Early Islamic North Mesopotamia. By Robert G. Hoyland, Sebastian P. Brock, Kyle B. Brunner, and Jack Tannous. Texts from Christian	0
Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought. By Luke B. Yarbrough. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 361. $120 (cloth), $32.99 (paper).	0
:Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, ca. 1415–1050 bce	0
The Otherworld (with)in This World: Imhet as a (Super)natural Conduit between Dimensions in Egyptian Sources	0
Ashdod in the Assyrian Period: Territorial Extent and Political History	0
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Kings and their Gods: Representations of Urartian Royal Ideology and Religion in Sargon II’s Letter to the God Ashur	0
Egyptology and Political Theology: An Examination of the Ethics of Scholarship	0
Rumors, Sedition and Personal Relationships: The Parwānah’s Conspiracy and Mongol Rule in Seljuk Anatolia (ad 1255–1277)	0
:An = Anum and Related Lists	0
Islam: An Advanced Introduction. By Roberto Tottoli. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 136. $42.95 (paper), $160 (cloth).	0
The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest. By Avraham Faust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 373. £90.00 (cloth).	0
Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwaynī. By Sohaira Siddiqui. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii + 312. $99.99 (cloth).	0
Nairi Lands: The Identity of the Local Communities of Eastern Anatolia, South Caucasus and Periphery during The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. A Reassessment of the Material Culture and the Socio-	0
Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, Volumes IV–V. By E. Leichty, I. L. Finkel, and C. B. F. Walker, with contributions by T. G. Pinches, A. J. Sachs, D. J. Wiseman, W. G.	0
:Geschichte und Geographie Westkleinasiens in der Hethiterzeit	0
Abydos: The Sacred Land at the Western Horizon. Edited by Ilona Regulski. British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 8. Leuven: Peeters, 2019. Pp. x + 339 + 183 figures + 56 plates + 3 tabl	0
The Last of an Age: The Making and Unmaking of a Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Poet. By Sooyong Kim. Milton Park, UK: Routledge, 2018. Pp. 155. $160 (cloth); $49.95 (paper).	0
Ritual Instructions in the Series Lamaštu	0
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination. By Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 256 + 15 illustrations. $59.95 (cloth).	0

Oriental Institute Museum Notes No. 17: An Abydos Setting for a Stela of Osiris Sety I	0
:Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia	0
Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt: Archaeology and Anthropology in Dialogue. By Leire Olabarria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xv + 277 + 40 figures. $110 (cloth).	0
Qurʾanic Periphrases for the Sake of Rhyme and Rhythm and the Periphrastic Use of Kull	0
Mittani Palaeography. By Zenobia S. Homan. Cuneiform Monographs 48. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. xvi + 396 + figures. 164€/$197 (cloth).	0
The Black Kingdom of the Nile. By Charles Bonnet. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 224 + 45 color photos + 40 color illustrations + 11 illustrations + 1 table. $42 (cloth).	0
:Arabic in Context. Celebrating 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University	0
:Lagash I: The Ceramic Corpus from Al-Hiba, 1968–1990. A Chrono-Typology of the Pottery Tradition in Southern Mesopotamia during the 3rd and Early 2nd Millenium BCE	0
Grapes and Wine in pre-Roman Anatolia: Evidence of Large-Scale Viticulture from Southern Cappadocia, the Land of the Storm-God of the Vineyard	0
:Everything as One: A Linguistic View of The Egyptian Creator in the Pyramid Texts	0
:Officials and Administration in the Hittite World	0
Magical Obstetrics: Anubis, Bird Blood, and a Black Shrew	0
Cuneiform in Canaan: The Next Generation. By Wayne Horowitz, Takayoshi Oshima, and Seth L. Sanders. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2018. Second Edition. Pp. xii + 248 + 180 illustrations. $5	0
Epigraphical Study of the Burial Chamber Belonging to Nakhtmin (TT 87): Materiality and Scribal Hands	0
The Cruciform Seal and Mursili II’s Immediate Predecessors	0
Mesopotamische Schöpfungstexte in Ritualen: Methodik und Fallstudien zur situativen Verortung. By Kerstin Maiwald. Mythological Studies, vol. 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. xx + 461 + 2 illus	0
:The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World	0
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Ashkelon 7: The Iron Age I. Edited by Lawrence E. Stager, Daniel M. Master, and Adam J. Aja. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2020. Pp. xvii + 981 + illustrations (some color) + maps. $159.95	0
Allah: God in the Qur’an. By Gabriel Said Reynolds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 344. $30 (cloth).	0
:Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor	0
Symbolism in 13th-centurybcHittite Metallurgy: The Kastamonu-Kınık (Turkey) Metal Hoard, Again	0
The State of Economic History and Households in the Economy of Early Mesopotamia	0
“Syrians call you Astarte … Lycian peoples call you Leto”: Ethnic Relations and Circulating Legends in the Villages of Egypt	0
Using the Syriac Documentary Parchments, Today and in Antiquity	0
Toponymy on the Periphery: Placenames of the Eastern Desert, Red Sea, and South Sinai in Egyptian Documents from the Early Dynastic until the End of the New Kingdom. By Julien Charles Cooper. B	0
Conversion to Islam: Competing Themes in Early Islamic Historiography. By Ayman S. Ibrahim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxi + 291. $99 (cloth).	0
Urban Squares in Late Bronze Age Ugarit: a Street View on Ancient Near Eastern Governance	0
Functional Differentiation in Hittite Festival Texts. An Analysis of the Old Hittite Manuscripts of the KI.LAM Great Assembly. By James M. Burgin. Studien zu den Boǧazköy-Texten 65. Wiesbaden:	0
:An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of Cihānnümā	0
The Migration of the Elephantine Yahwists under Amasis II	0
Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story. By Martin Worthington. The Ancient World. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 522. $160 (cloth).	0