Open Access Journal: Baf-online: Proceedings Of The Berner Altorientalisches Forum

 [First posted in AWOL 7 June 2018, updated 14 October 2024]

BAF-Online: Proceedings of the Berner Altorientalisches Forum
ISSN: 2504-2076

BAF-Online is the publication platform of the Berner Altorientalisches Forum (BAF). It makes available to the public within the shortest possible delays vidcasts of the talks that have been held at the BAF. The vidcasts published at BAF Online have been peer-reviewed by members of the BAF scientific committee and are quotable. The aim of BAF-Online is to facilitate the dissemination and publication of ideas prior to final results.

The Berner Altorientalisches Forum (BAF) is an annual international meeting designed to bring together researchers of the Ancient Near East specialising in different areas and disciplines. There is no theme. Participants are encouraged to communicate their ideas as concisely as possible. Talks last no more than 10 minutes and are vidcasted.

The idea of setting up a forum designed to bring together specialists from all disciplines active in all areas of the Ancient Near East broadly defined was put forward by Johanna Tudeau in January 2015. The BAF project followed, developed in the course of a conversation between Johanna and Mirko Novák. The first BAF took place in Bern on 24-25 June 2016, organised by Johanna and Hannah Mönninghoff with the support of the BAF Committee

• Proceedings of the 4th Berner Altorientalisches Forum (BAF), 11th-13th June 2019

  Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019)

 

• Programme of the 4th BAF, 11th-13th June 2019

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Panel GIGA.MEŠ: Techniques of digital reconstruction

• Detecting word boundaries in an undeciphered script: The Byblos syllabary

  Michael Mäder

  • Video

Panel IŠTAR: Forms of transtextual analysis

• Papyri to the rescue: reconstructing Hellenistic male-female couple relationships through papyrological documentation

  Charlotte Golay

  • Video
  • Abstract

• nam-nar/nārūtu in the Seleucid Period: revisiting an excerpt of CT 17, pl. 18 [BM 34223+]

  Daniel Sánchez Munõz

  • Video
  • Abstract

• Mesopotamian medical information in the divination series Šumma ālu

  Francesca Minen

  • Video
  • Abstract

Panel HAPI: Conceptualising nature

• Hemp! Thread, cloth and a calendar

  Jeannette Boertien

  • Video
  • Abstract

• Evolution of a social dynamic in a changing landscape: the case of Argos (Argolis, Greece) in the Mycenaean period

  Philippe Baeriswyl

  • Video
  • Abstract

Panel HESET: Consumption and symbolism

• The “poisonous water” (mê rʾōš) in Jer 8:14 and the “bewitched water” (mê kaššāpūti) in Maqlû i 103-104: witchcraft in the book of Jeremiah

  Cristiana Conti

  • Video
  • Abstract

• Is the Erasing of the Metal Ware in the Banquet Scene of Assurbanipal, an Aspect of the damnatio memoriae?

  Adonice-Ackad Baaklini

  • Video
  • Abstract

• The Mountain Fortresses of Rabana-Merquly in Iraqi-Kurdistan

  Michael Brown

  • Video
  • Abstract

• The Hittite Notion of Border. A practical view

  Adam Kryszeń

  • Video
  • Abstract

Panel NEITH: Mobility and networks

• On the Aramaic Onomasticon in the Cuneiform Text Corpus

  Brandon Simonson

  • Video
  • Abstract

• Ionians and Carians in an Aramaic Letter from Saqqâra: Notes for a Tentative Interpretation of NSaqPap 26

  Marco Santini

  • Video
  • Abstract

• Onomastic interferences in Lycia: Greek reinterpretation of Lycian personal names

  Florian Réveilhac

  • Video
  • Abstract

Panel KOTHAR: Iconographic narratives

• Mirroring the god: topic, images and word-order in the hieroglyphic Luwian inscription ALEPPO 6

  Claudia Posani

  • Video
  • Abstract

• The Goddess on the Vezirhan Stele

  Tamás Péter Kisbali

  • Video
  • Abstract

Panel ŠAMḪAT: Methodologies of heritage preservation/reconstruction

• Toward a Syllabary and a Sign List of the Early Dynastic Umma Region

  Armando Bramanti

  • Video
  • Abstract

• The Materiality of Cylinder Seals

  Nicole Gäumann

  • Video
  • Abstract

• Vol. 3 (2018)

• Vol. 2 (2017)

• Vol. 1 (2016)