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SAA Bulletin - Volume XVI, 2007

Editors: Frederick Mario Fales, Giovanni B. Lanfranchi
Assistant Editor: Simonetta Ponchia
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

GRETA VAN BUYLAERE, SAA 5, 55, and SAA 5, 61, Rejoined ................................................ 1

MARTIN LANG, An Account on i-pi-ra-am-ma in Gilg. XI, 149, via Aramaic ? ...................... 5

WIEBKE KIRLEIS - MICHAEL HERLES, Climatic Change as a Reason for Assyro-Ara-
maean Conflicts? Pollen Evidence/or Drought at the End of the 2nd Millennium
BC ...................................................................................................................................... 7

NADAV NA'AMAN, Borders and Districts in Descriptions of the Conquest of the West
in Tiglath-pileser Ill's Inscriptions and in Biblical Historiography .............................. 39

ROBERT ROLLINGER, Überlegungen zur Frage der Lokalisation von Jawan in neuas-
syrischer Zeit .................................................................................................................... 63

Papers Presented at the Workshop
"Archives and Administration in the Neo-Assyrian Empire "
Verona, October 20-21, 2005

SIMONETTA PONCHIA, Introduction ....................................................................................... 91

FREDERICK MARIO FALES, Multilingualism on Multiple Media in the Nee-Assyrian
Period: a Review of the Evidence ..................................................................................... 95

SIMONETTA PONCHIA, Communicational Procedures and Administrative Structures
in the Nee-Assyrian Empire ............................................................................................ 123

SALVATORE GASPA, Vessels in Neo-Assyrian Documents. Capacity Measures and
Listing Conventions ........................................................................................................, 145

KAREN RADNER, Hired Labour in the Neo-Assyrian Empire ............................................. 185

MIKKO LUUKKO, The Administrative Roles of the "Chief Scribe" and the "Palace
Scribe" in the Neo-Assyrian Period ............................................................................... Ill

SAANA TEPPO, The Role and the Duties of the Neo-Assyrian šakintu in the Light of
Archival Evidence ........................................................................................................... 257

ANNE LOHNERT, The Installation of Priests according to Neo-Assyrian Documents ........ 273

ALEXA BARTELMUS, talimu and the Relationship between Assurbanipal and Šamaš-
šumu-ukin ....................................................................................................................... 287