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Annotated bibliography

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September 2026

1937    1952    1957    1960    1963    1966    1967    1969    1971    1972    1973    1974    1976    1977    1978    1979    1980    1981    1982    1983    1984    1985    1986    1987    1988    1989    1990    1991    1992    1993    1994    1995    1996    1997    1998    2000    2001    2002    2003    2004    2006    2007    2008    2009    2010    2011    2012    2013    2014    2015    2016    2017    2018    2019    2020    2021    2022   

Year Author Title
1937 Mallowan, Max E.L. “Excavations at Tall Chagar Bazar and an Archaeological Survey of the Ḫabur Region. Second.Campaign, 1936”
1952 Delougaz, Pinhas Pottery from the Diyala Region
1957 Hrouda, B. “Die Bemalte Keramik des zweiten Jahrtausends in Nordmesopotamien und Nordsyrien”
1960 Braidwood, Robert J.; Braidwood Linda S. Excavations in the Plain of Antioch I: The Earlier Assemblages Phases A-J
1963 Buccellati, Giorgio “I testi economici della III dinastia di Ur. Review to: Tom B. Jones and John W. Snyder, Sumerian Economic Texts from the Third Ur Dynasty, A Catalogue and Discussion of Documents from Various Collections, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961, pp. 421”
1963 Buccellati, Giorgio “La storia della Siria antica”
1966 Amiet, Pierre “Il y a 5000 ans les Elamites inventaient l’écriture”
1966 Buccellati, Giorgio Review to: Herbert Bardwell Huffmon, Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study, Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1965, pp. XVI + 304,
1966 Buccellati, Giorgio “The Amorites of the Ur III Period”
1967 Buccellati, Giorgio “Cities and Nations of Ancient Syria. An Essay on Political Institutions with Special Reference to the Israelite Kingdoms”
1967 Buccellati, Giorgio and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati Archaeological Survey of the Palmyrene and the Jebel Bishri
1969 Buccellati, Giorgio Review to: Giorgio R. Castellino, Mitologia sumerico-accadica, Torino: Società Editrice Internazionale, 1967, pp. 214
1971 Baker, Taha The Epic of Gilgamesh
1972 Buccellati, Giorgio Review to: Mirjo Salvini, Nairi e Ir(u)aṭri. Contributo alla storia della Formazione del regno di Urarṭu, Incunabula Graeca 16, Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 1967, pp. 111
1972 Buccellati, Giorgio “Tre saggi sulla sapienza mesopotamica”
1973 Buccellati, Giorgio “Methodological Concerns and the Progress of Ancient Near Eastern Studies”
1974 Buccellati, Giorgio “Foreword”
1976 Kühne, H. Die Keramik aus Tell Chuēra und ihre Beziehung zu den Funden aus Syrien-Palästina, der Türkei und dem Iraq
1977 Barrelet, Marie-Thérèse “Le ‘Cas’ hurrite et la pratique archeologique”
1977 Buccellati, Giorgio “Apiru and Munnabtūtu — The Stateless of the First Cosmopolitan Age”
1977 Buccellati, Giorgio “Terqa Preliminary Reports, No. 2. A Cuneiform Tablet of the Early Second Millennium B.C.”
1977 Buccellati, Giorgio “The «Urban Revolution» in a Socio-Political Perspective”
1977 Buccellati, Giorgio and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati New Archaeological Harvests from Syria
1977 Buccellati, Giorgio and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati Syro-Mesopotamian Studies: A Preface
1977 Buccellati, Giorgio and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati Terqa Preliminary Reports, No. 1: General Introduction and the Stratigraphic Record of the First Two Seasons
1978 Barrelet, Marie-Thérèse “Le ‘cas hurrite’ et l’archéologie”
1979 Buccellati, Giorgio Terqa Preliminary Reports No. 10. The Fourth Season: Introduction and the Stratigraphic Record (edited by Giorgio Buccellati)
1980 Badre, Laila “Les figurines anthropomorphes en terre cuite à l'Age du Bronze en Syrie”
1981 Buccellati, Giorgio “The origin of Writing and the Beginning of History”
1981 Buccellati, Giorgio “Principles of Stylistic Analysis”
1981 Buccellati, Giorgio “Stratigraphic Sections”
1982 Buccellati, Giorgio “The Descent of Inanna as a Ritual Journey to Kutha”
1982 Collon, Dominique The Alalakh Cylinder Seals.
1982 Collon, Dominique Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum.
1982 Oates, J. “Some late Early Dynastic III pottery from Tell Brak”
1983 Buccellati, Giorgio “Allocution de représentant des participants”
1983 Buccellati, Giorgio “Computer Aided Research in Near Eastern Studies: An Introduction”
1984 Buccellati, Giorgio “Introduction”
1984 Buccellati, Giorgio “Review to”: John Boardman et al. (eds.), The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 3, part 1, The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean World, Tenth to Eight Centuries B.C., 2nd ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. xx + 1059
1984 Stein, Diana L. Khabur Ware and Nuzi Ware: Their Origin, Relationship, and Significance
1985 Mazzoni, Stefania “Frontières céramiques et le Haut Euphrate au Bronze Ancien IV”
1985 Oates, J. “Tell Brak and Chronology: the Third Millennium”
1986-1987 Buccellati, Giorgio “On the Distribution of Epigraphic Finds at Terqa”
1986 Buccellati, Giorgio “Analyzing Assyrian Palace Reliefs. Review to”: Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, The Forms of Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern Culture. New York: Schocken Books, 1985, pp. 136
1986 Buccellati, Giorgio “Computer Projects”
1986 Buccellati, Giorgio and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati The Glory of Ancient Syria. Ebla to Damascus, Part I
1986 Buccellati, Giorgio and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati The Glory of Ancient Syria. Ebla to Damascus, Part II
1987 Durand, Jean-Marie “L’organisation de l’espace dans le palais de Mari : le témoignage des textes”
1987 Oates, J.; McDonald, H. Excavations at Tell Brak. The Mitanni and Old Babylonian Periods
1988 Anati, Emmanuel Origini dell’arte e della concettualità
1988 Buccellati, Giorgio “Ancient Syria. Introduction”
1988 Buccellati, Giorgio Gilgamesh and Enkidu: The First Encounter (The Old Babylonian Pennsylvania Tablet)
1988 Buccellati, Giorgio “The Kingdom and Period of Khana”
1988 Buccellati, Giorgio and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati Introduction
1988 Erkanal, H. “Girnavaz”
1989 Biscione, Raffaele “La ceramica del III millennio”
1989 Thissen, L.C. “An Early Bronze III Pottery Region between the Middle Euphrates and Habur. New Evidence from Tell Hammam at-Turkman”
1990 Buccellati, Giorgio “Cybernetica Mesopotamica”
1990 Buccellati, Giorgio “The Ebla Electronic Corpus: Graphemic Analysis”
1990 Buccellati, Giorgio “Experiments in Salt Production at Tell Qraya”
1990 Buccellati, Giorgio “From Khana to Laqê: the End of Syro-Mesopotamia”
1990 Buccellati, Giorgio Review to: Wayne T. Pitard, Ancient Damascus: A Historical Study of the Syrian City-State from Earliest Times until its Fall to the Assyrians in 732 B.C.E., Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1987, pp. viii + 230
1990 Buccellati, Giorgio “‘River Bank’, ‘High Country’, and ‘Pasture Land’: the Growth of Nomadism on the Middle Euphrates and the Khabur”
1990 Buccellati, Giorgio “The Rural Landscape of the Ancient Zor: The Terqa Evidence”
1990 Buccellati, Giorgio “Salt at the Dawn of History: the Case of the Bevelled-Rim Bowls”
1990 Buccellati, Giorgio and Stephen Reimer Tell Ziyada
1991 Buccellati, Giorgio “A Note on the muškēnum as a ‘Homesteader’”
1991 Orthmann, W.; Rova, E. Gräber des 3. Jahrtausends v. Chr. im syrischen Euphrattal. 2. Ausgrabungen in Wreide
1992 Buccellati, Giorgio “Ebla and the Amorites”
1992 Buccellati, Giorgio “The Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Analysis”
1993 Buccellati, Giorgio “Gli Amorrei e l’“addomesticamento” della steppa”
1993 Buccellati, Giorgio “Through a Tablet Darkly. A Reconstruction of Old Akkadian Monuments Described in Old Babylonian Copies”
1994 Matthews, R.; Matthews, W.; McDonald, H. “Excavations at Tell Brak”
1995 Buccellati, Giorgio “Eblaite and Amorite Names”
1995 Buccellati, Giorgio “Ethics and Piety in·the Ancient Near East”
1995 Gibson, McG.; McMahon, A. “Investigation of the Early Dynastic-Akkadian Transition: Report of the 18th and 19th Seasons of Excavation in Area WF”
1995 Pfälzner, P. Mittanische und Mittelassyrische Keramik. Eine chronologische funktionnale und produktionsokonomische analise
1996 Bahrani, Zainab “The Hellenization of Ishtar: Nudity, Fetishism and the Production of Cultural Differentiation in Ancient Art”
1996 Buccellati, Giorgio A Structural Grammar of Babylonian
1996 Buccellati, Giorgio “The Role of Socio-Political Factors in the Emergence of ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Domains in Early Mesopotamia”
1996 Rova, Elena “Ceramic Provinces along the Middle and Upper Euphrates:
1997 Asher-Greve, Julia “The Essential Body: Mesopotamian Conceptions of the Gendered Body”
1997 Bretschneider, Joachim; Jans, Greta “Spätfrüdynastische und akkadische Keramik der Hügelkuppe / Akropolis Feld F”
1997 Buccellati, Giorgio “Akkadian and Amorite Phonology”
1997 Harrak, A. “Mitanni”
1997 Oguchi, H. “A Reassessment of the Distribution of Khabur Ware: An Approach from an Aspect of its Main Phase”
1998 Biscione, Raffaele “La sequenza del III millennio a Tell Barri/Kahat: l’area B”
1998 Buccellati, Giorgio “Review to: Aviram, J. and Shanks, H. (eds.) [1996], Archaeology’s Publication Problems, Washington D.C., Biblical Archaeology Society”
2000 Buccellati, Giorgio “On Poetry and Friendship: Linear and Tensional Elements in the Old Babylonian Episode of Gilgamesh and Enkidu”
2000 Carandini, Andrea Storie dalla terra. Manuale di scavo archeologico
2000 Daszkiewicz, M.; Bobryk, E.; Schneider, G. “Water Permeability and Thermal Shock Resistance of 6th–3rd Millennium Cooking Pots from North Mesopotamia”
2000 de Martino, Stefano “Mitanni”
2000 Lebeau, M.; Pruß, A.; Roaf, M.; Rova, E. “Stratified Archaeological Evidence and Compared Periodizations in the Syrian Jezirah during the Third Millennium BC”
2000 Marro, C.; Hauptmann, H. Chronologies des pays du Caucase et de l’Euphrate aux 4.-3. millenaires : actes du Colloque international organise par l’Institut francais d’etudes anatoliennes d’Istanbul (IFEA) en collaboration avec l’Universite d’Istanbul (IU), le Deutsches archaologisches institut (DAI) et le British institute of archaeology at Ankara (BIAA)
2001 Agnew, Neville “Methodology, Conservation Criteria and Performance Evaluation for Archaeological Site Shelters”
2001 Bahrani, Zainab “Women of Babylon”
2001 Gut, R.; Reade, J.; Boehmer, R.M. “Ninive – Das späte 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.”
2001 McMahon, Augusta; Tunca, Önhan; Baghdo, Abd el-Massih “New Excavations at Chagar Bazar, 1999-2000”
2001 Oates, J. “The Third-millennium Pottery”
2001 Oates, D; Oates, J.; McDonald, E. Excavations at Tell Brak. Vol. 2: Nagar in the III millennium BC
2001 Oguchi, H. “The Origins of Khabur Ware: A Tentative Note”
2001 Schneider, G.; Daszkiewicz, M. “Stone Ware and Ninevite 5: Notes on Composition and Technology of Pottery from Tell Brak”
2002 Porter, A. “The Late Bronze Age Ceramic Traditions of the Syrian Jazirah”
2003 Baltacioğlu, Hatçe “Alaca Höyük sfenksli kapı aşçilar kabartması [Depictions of cooks on the Sphinx Gate at Alaca Höyük]”
2003 Beckman, Gary “Gilgamesh in Ḫatti”
2003 Bednarik, Robert G. “A Major Change in Archaeological Paradigm”
2003-2004 Buccellati, Giorgio Review to: Geyer, B. (ed.) [2001], Conquête de la steppe et appropriation des terres sur les marges arides du Croissant fertile, Lyon: Maison de l’Orient Méditerranéen – Jean Pouilloux (= Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient méditerranéen, 36)
2003 Matthews, Roger “Issues and Approaches”
2003 Rova, Elena “The IIIrd Millennium Pottery Morphology.
2003 Taniguchi, Y. “Ethnoarchaeological Research on a Modern Pottery Workshop in Qamishli, Syria”
2004 Agnew, Neville; Martha Demas “Monitoring through Replication. Design and Evaluation of the Monitoring Reburial at the Laetoli Trackway Site”
2004 Buccellati, Giorgio Present at Creation
2006 Agnew, Neville; Janet Bridgland “Of the Past, for the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation”
2006 Akrawi, Aysar “NGO and Government Collaboration in Archaeological Site Management: The Case of Petra in Jordan”
2006 Asher-Greve, Julia; Deborah Sweeney “On Nakedness, Nudity and Gender in Egyptian and Mesopotamian Art”
2006 Buccellati, Giorgio On (e)-tic and -emic
2007 al-Maqdissi, Michel; Christophe, Nicolle; Matoian, Valérie Céramique de l’âge du bronze en Syrie. II: l’Euphrate et la région de Jézireh
2007 Bretschneider, Joachim; Cunningham, Tim “An Elite Akkadian Grave on the Acropolis at Tell Beydar”
2007 Brustolon, Anna; Rova, Elena “The Late Chalcolithic Period in the Tell Leilan Region: A Report on the Ceramic Material of the 1995 Survey”
2007 Buccellati, Giorgio Non-linear archaeology
2007 Kolińki, R. “The Upper Khabur Region in the Second Part of the Third Millennium BC”
2007 McMahon, Augusta; Quenet, P. “Late Third Millennium BC Pottery Assemblage from Chagar Bazar (Area D, Phase II)”
2007 Pfälzner, P. “The Late Bronze Age Ceramic Traditions of the Syrian Jazirah”
2007 Tunca, Ö.; Miftah, M. “Chantier D. Phase II. Stratigraphie, Architecture, Installations”
2008 Aruz, Joan; Benzel, Kim; M. Evans, Jean Beyond Babylon. Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.
2008 Brustolon, Anna; Rova, Elena “The Late Chalcolithic Settlement in the Leilan Region of Northeastern Syria: A Preliminary Assessment”
2008 Buccellati, Giorgio The Origin of the Tribe and the ‘Industrial’ Agropastoralism in Syro-Mesopotamia
2008 Carr, Nicholas Is Google Making us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
2008 Kibaroğlu, M. Petrographische und Geochemische Untersuchungen an archäologischer Keramik aus Nordost-Syrien, Südost-Anatolien und Ost-Georgien
2008 Kibaroğlu, M.; Falb, Ch.; Satır, M. “On the Origin of the Northmesopotamian Metallic Ware: A New View from Sediment Geochemistry”
2008 Orsi, V. “La produzione ceramica di Tell Barri tra la fine del III e l’inizio del II millennio a.C.”
2008 Orsi, V. “Between Continuity and Transformation: The Late 3rd Millennium BC Ceramic Sequence from Tell Barri (Syria)”
2008 Pfälzner, Peter “Das Tempeloval von Urkeš. Betrachtungen zur Typologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte der mesopotamischen Ziqqurrat im 3. Jt. v. Chr.”
2009 Assante, Julia “Inside and Out: The Extra-Dimensional Aspects of the Mesopotamian Body, With Egyptian Parallels”
2009 Falb, Ch. Untersuchungen an Keramikwaren des dritten Jahrtausends v. Chr. aus Nordsyrien
2009 Laneri, Nicola Biografia di un vaso. Tecniche di produzione del vasellame ceramico nel Vicino Oriente antico tra il V e il II millennio a.C.
2010 Ben-Shlomo, David Philistine Iconography: A Wealth of Style and Symbolism
2010 Buccellati, Giorgio The Question of Digital Thought
2010 Orsi, V. “The Passage from the Early Bronze to the Middle Bronze Age in the Jezirah: A Parallel between Tell Mozan and Tell Barri Ceramic Sequences “
2011 Buccellati, Giorgio Digital Edition and Graphemic Analysis of the Ebla Texts
2011 Rova, Elena “Ceramic”
2012 Bianchi, Alice “A Diachronic Case? Comparing Pottery Types of the Northern Khabur Triangle and the Upper Tigris Region at the End of the Third Millennium BC”
2012 Buccellati, Giorgio Aten in Amurru?
2012 Buccellati, Giorgio Towards a Linguistic Model for Archaeology
2012 Kozbe, G. “Evidence for the Societal Complexity of the Upper Tigris Region during the Late Third Millennium and Early Second Millennium BC from Kavuşan Höyük”
2012 Laneri, Nicola; Pfälzner, Peter; Valentini, Stefano Looking North: The Socioeconomic Dynamics of the Northern Mesopotamian and Anatolian Regions during the Late Third and Early Second Millennium BC
2012 Özfiırat, A. “Üçtepe and Diyarbakır Area During the Early Middle Bronze Age”
2012 Schmidt, C. Ausgrabungen 1998-2001 in der Zentralen Oberstadt von Tall Mozan/Urkeš. Die Keramik der Früh-Ğazīra V bis Alt-Ğazīra II-Zeit
2013 Asher-Greve, Julia; Goodnick Westenholz, Joan “Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources”
2013 Bailey, Douglass “Figurines, corporeality and the origins of gender”
2013 Braun-Holzinger, Eva Andrea Frühe Götterdarstellungen in Mesopotamien. Ihre Beziehungen im Spiegel der Archäologie und der Literatur des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt
2013 Reiche, Andrzej; Smogorzewska, Anna “Ninevite 5 kitchen from Tell Arbid (Sector W)”
2013 Smogorzewska, Anna “Fenestrated pot stands in Ninevite 5 pottery tradition: New evidence from Tell Arbid (north–east Syria)”
2014 Buccellati, Giorgio Nella storia, la compagnia del destino all’uomo
2014 Buccellati, Giorgio The threefold ‘invention’ of time: transcendental, transcendent, trans-temporal
2014 Budin, Stephanie Lynn Fertility and Gender in the Ancient Near East
2014 Smogorzewska, Anna “Ninevite 5 Kitchen Ware: Morphology and Technological Characteristic”
2015 Buccellati, Giorgio The Transcendental Revolution
2016 Barrett, John “Archaeology after Interpretation: Returning Humanity to Archaeological Theory”
2016 Smogorzewska, Anna “The final stage of Ninevite 5 pottery: Morphological types, technology and diachronic analysis from Tell Arbid (north-east Syria)”
2017 Buccellati, Giorgio “Perceptual, Grammatical and Hermeneutical Dimensions of Digitality”
2017 Buccellati, Giorgio and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati Community Archaeology 1984: At the Interface between Practice and Theory
2017 Carandini, Andrea La forza del contesto
2018 Smogorzewska, Anna Tell Arbit House and Household in a Changing Town, Excavations in Area D
2019 Buccellati, Federico “Houses of Nippur: An Architectural Study using EnCAB”
2020 Akar, Murat; Demet Kara “The formation of collective, political and cultural memory in the Middle Bronze Age: foundation and termination rituals at Toprakhisar Höyük”
2020 Buccellati, Giorgio ‘Awīliš īwē’. L’uomo mesopotamico come figlio della città’Awīliš īwē’. L’uomo mesopotamico come figlio della città
2020 ✝Wegner (Haas), Ilse An Introduction To the Hurrian Language. Revised, edited, and reformatted by Allan R. Bomhard
2021 Akar, Murat; Aslıhan, K. Yener; Müge, Bulu; Tara, Ingman “A Fresh Perspective on the Middle Bronze Age at Tell Atchana, Alalakh: The 2007-2019 Seasons”
2021 Buccellati, Federico “L’architettura palatina”
2021 Buccellati, Giorgio The Cosmos before Cosmology: Foreshadowing of Order in Prehistory
2021 Mahmoud, Yasmine Anthropomorphic figurines, statuettes and jewelry from Urkesh. An archaeological and historical study
2022 Bataray, Nurettin “MÖ 2. BINYILDA DOGU AKDENIZ ILE EGE ARASINDAKI KÜLTÜREL ILISKILER: NUZI SERAMIGI ÜZERINE DEGERLENDIRMELER [CULTURAL RELATIONS BETWEEN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND AEGEAN IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM BC: CONSIDERATIONS ON NUZI WARE]”
2022 Buccellati, Giorgio Transformative Transitions: Learning from a Distant Past