Third Millennium

Ilya Arkhipov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, has published a volume of texts from the Mari archives, and a number of articles on the history of Old Babylonian Upper Mesopotamia and Akkadian language.Leonid Kogan, National Research University Higher School of Economics, has published a number of monographs and articles on comparative Semitics and historical grammar of Akkadian.Natalia Koslova, State Hermitage Museum, has published two volumes of Ur III texts and a number of articles on Ur III economy and society.

"This splendid combined Festschrift for two of the dies superiores of third-millennium studies offers thirty-seven essays by forty-two authors, mostly spanning the Uruk IV to the Old Babylonian periods. (...) Along the way the authors discuss the nature and consequence of human praise of divinities and the meaning of Inanna’s attribute kù “radiant” or “brilliant.” These last properties well describe the cumulative effect of these studies in honor of two master scholars who have played a leading role in the exploration of the recalcitrant, fascinating, and evergrowing treasury of Mesopotamian written sources of the third millennium BCE."- Benjamin R. Foster, Yale University, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 142.2 (2022).