Association pour la Promotion de l'Histoire et de l'Archéologie Orientales. Mémoires – serie

The library of St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai holds a remarkable series of documents issued over several centuries by the authorities of Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman Egypt to guarantee the protection of the monks. The decrees issued at the highest level, for example by the Mamluk sultans, have been studied. This present study concentrates on eighteen documents of the Mamluk period, not before edited, which were issued by officials of lower rank. After an introduction, which briefly presents the monastery, its archive and general comments on the diplomatic of the documents, the text of each is established and translated into English with a commentary. The form and style of the documents are compared to those of relevant examples found in the scribal handbooks, including an unpublished work by the son of al-Qalqashandi. These documents not only reinforce the general aims of the sultanian decrees but also deal with some specific issues, the security of the monks and their ability to carry on commercial activity, and demonstrate a secondary level of administration that gave effect to orders from the centre. The original texts are fully reproduced.

This volume gathers together the proceedings of the conference which took place at the University of Liège from 13 to 15 January 2011. The conference was part of the project Tropics of Travel: Travel in Arabic Writings that took the form of four international symposia held in Venice (2007), Paris (2008), and London (2009). The Liège conference took the other destination of travel, home, as its subject and looked at ways in which travel may revise notions of self, community, and home, and inscribe significance of ontological and epistemological dimensions into the journey of homecoming. This volume includes nine articles that were selected from seventeen papers read at the conference.

La construction du barrage de Techrine dans la haute vallée de l'Euphrate, au nord de la Syrie, a donné lieu à des fouilles de sauvetage archéologique. C'est dans le cadre de cette opération que Tell al-'Abr a été fouillé pendant cinq campagnes, entre 1989 et 1993, par une mission syrienne dirigée par Hamido Hammade. Le présent volume est le rapport de fouille définitif. Il contient la publication de toutes les découvertes, accompagnées de chapitres d'analyses de laboratoire. La richesse des résultats obtenus permet désormais de considérer Tell al-'Abr comme un site de référence important pour la période d'Obeid en Syrie. Tell al-'Abr was excavated in the frame of the salvage excavations carried out during the building of the Teshreen dam on the upper Euphrates valley in the north of Syria. A Syrian team, directed by Hamido Hammade, excavated the site during five seasons between 1989 and 1993. The volume is the final excavation report. It contains the publication of all archaeological discoveries and chapters concerning the laboratory analysis. Because of the richness of the results, Tell al-'Abr could be considered now as an important reference site for the Ubaid period in Syria.

Volume d'Hommage présenté à Monsieur H. Limet, professeur de sumérologie honoraire. Le volume contient des articles sur des textes sumériens et akkadiens, l'histoire et l'archéologie mésopotamienne.Papers on the sumerian and akkadian texts, mesopotamian history and archaeology offered to H. Limet, honorary professor of sumerology from the University of Liège. Table des matières / Contents: Avant-propos - Bibliographie - B. ALSTER, He Who Pays With Valid Money: On the Status of Merchants in Early Mesopotamia - M. ANBAR, L'origine tribale de Zimri-Lim, roi de Mari - A. CAVIGNEAUX, Miettes de l'Edubbâ - M.E. COHEN, The Gods of Suburban Umma - G. COLBOW, Die spätaltbabylonische Einführungsszene. Zum Fortleben eines zentralen Bildmotivs der Ur-III-Zeit - P. FRONZAROLI, À propos de quelques mots éblaïtes d'orfèvrerie - W.W. HALLO, Notes on Neo-Sumerian Animal Husbandry - J.-R. KUPPER, Les différents moments de la journée, d'après les textes de Mari - B. LAFONT, L'extraction du minerai de cuivre en Iran à la fin du IIIe millénaire - J.-Cl. MARGUERON, Mari à l'époque de «shakkanakku» - O. ROUAULT, Terqa et l'époque des «sakkanaku» - M. SIGRIST, Deux signes, sous-multiples de gur - A.W. SJÖBERG, UET VII, 73: An Exercise Tablet Enumerating Professions - A. SPYCKET, La rôle funéraire des ceintures à anneaux de coquille - H. STEIBLE - F. Yildiz, Kupfer ain ein Herdenamt in Suuppak? - M. STEPIEN, The Organisation of Animal Pasturing in the Light of Balanced Accounts, Inventories of Sheep and Goat Herdsmen from Umma - M. STOL, THe Reversibility of Human Fate in Ludlul II - Ph. TALON, Un nouvel exemplaire d'un cône de Nur-Adad de Larsa - M. TANRET, Noms sumériens ou noms acadiens - M. TROKAY, Glyptique pseudo-kassite: glyptique kassite commune - D. DEHESELLE, la distribution «aklu» à Nippur à l'époque kassite - Ö. TUNCA, À propos de la genèse des orthostates néo-assyriens.

La transmission des sciences consiste en trois étapes: la traduction des traités antérieurs, l'assimilation des acquis théoriques, le perfectionnement des techniques et des doctrines. L'objectif de cette étude est l'analyser des grandes étapes du phénomène de transmission de la culture grecque aux Arabes, phénomène que le Peri; tw'n ejptamhvnwn brefw'n de Galien, commentaire d'un extrait du Peri; ovktamhvnou d'Hippocrate, traduit en arabe par Hunayn b. Ishâq et commenté par Thâbit b. Qurra semblait illustrer parfaitement. Transmission of sciences is composed of three steps: translation of treatises, assimilation of theoretical knowledge and development of technology and doctrines. The purpose of this study is to analyze steps of transmission of sciences from Greece to Arabs. This phenomenon is illustrated by a Galenic treatise, the Peri; tw'n ejptamhvnwn brefw'n which is a commentary of Hippocratic Peri; ovktamhvnou, and which is translated in Arabic by Hunayn b. Ishâq and then commented by Thâbit b. Qurra.