The Old Babylonian Diyala: Research since the 1930s and Prospects

Colloque organisé par Carlos Gonçalves (résident 2016-2017 de l'IEA de Paris / Universidade de São Paulo), Cécile Michel (ArScAn ((CNRS/Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/Univ. Paris Nanterre/MC)) et Cheikhmous Ali (résident 2016-2017 de l'IEA de Paris / Université de Strasbourg / chercheur à la Fondation Gerda Henkel)

Présentation

The region around the river Diyala, which runs approximately 500 km, from the mountains between Iraq and Iran, down to the south of Baghdad where it joins the Tigris, was the home of dozens of cities, villages and communities during the long history of ancient Mesopotamia. In the first centuries of the second millennium BCE, the strategic position of the region turned it into a point of articulation, dispute and mediation of the Babylonian area in the south and the Assyrian area in the north. Added to the growing power of the city of Eshnunna, this led the region to play a significant role in the international politics of those times.
The lack of syntheses dealing with the valley of the Diyala and the kingdom of Eshnunna is astonishing when compared with the rich legacy of in-depth and comprehensive scholarly works on the history of Larsa, Mari, Babylon and Assyria during the first centuries of the second millennium.
The main goal of the conference is to produce an updated view of the history and archaeology of the region, specifically dealing with the following issues:
• buildings, cities, landscapes and their relation with politics;
• cultural and economic exchanges with other regions;
• administration of the institutions: temple, palace and domestic units;
• history of the research itself and issues concerning the preservation of the
material heritage of the ancient Diyala.
In relation to the chronological range, the colloquium will privilege the first centuries of the second millennium, but contributions dealing with all periods of the Diyala will be welcome.

Programme

Lundi 25 juin

9:00 - 9:15   Mots d'ouverture
- Gretty Mirdal, directrice de l'IEA de Paris
- Ghislaine Glasson-Deschaumes, LabEx Les Passés dans le Présent
- Carlos Gonçalves, résident 2016-2017 de l'IEA de Paris / Universidade de São Paulo

9:15 - 10:15   Discours d'ouverture : Ešnunna: An historiographical case
Dominique Charpin, Collège de France, Paris

10:15-10:30   Pause

10:30 - 11:15   Diyala at the Louvre
Ariane Thomas, Musée du Louvre, Paris

11:15 - 12:00   Ešnunna under The Influence of Elam
Basima J. Abed, College of Arts, Baghdad

12:00 - 13:30   Pause déjeuner

13:30-14:15   Reconstructing the Oval Temple of Khafajeh: Insight into the Emergence of Multi-Stepped Terraces
Philippe Quenet, Université de Strasbourg

14:15 - 15:00   From Things to Practice. Reconstructing Spheres of Action from the Archaeological Inventories of the Old Babylonian Temples in Ishchali
Elisa Rossberger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

15:00 - 15:30   Pause

15:30 - 16:15   A New Text from Tell Sulayma - Diyala Region
Ahmed Kh. Mohammed, Former Director of the National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad

16:15 - 17:00   The Diyala Valley in the Early Old Babylonian Period: New Evidence from Tell Muqdadiya
Hervé Reculeau, University of Chicago

Mardi 26 juin

9:30 - 10:15   The Texts from Šaduppûm “Tall Ḥarmal”
Laith Hussein, University of Baghdad, College of Arts

10:15 - 10h30   Pause

10:30 - 11:15   Between past and future: The “Onomastica della Diyala” Project
Francesca Nebiolo, Proche-Orient Caucase, EPHE, UMR 7192

11:15 - 12:00   Homonyms, Aliases and Measurements in an Old Babylonian Community – the Archive of Nūr-Šamaš
Carlos Gonçalves, Universidade de São Paulo, IEA de Paris 2016-2017

12:00 - 13:30   Pause déjeuner

13:30 - 14:15   La glyptique de la Diyala au IIIe millénaire av. n. ère : état de question
Cheikhmous Ali, Université de Strasbourg, IEA de Paris 2016-2017, chercheur à la Fondation Gerda Henkel 

14:15 - 15:00   From Diyala to Ur, Passing by Mari, Kish and the Jezireh: Interregional connections in the first historical kingdoms
Sophie Cluzan, Musée du Louvre, Paris

15:00 - 15:30   Pause

15:30 - 16:15   The Diyala Region as a Linchpin in Old Babylonian Trade Networks
Rients De Boer, Universiteit van Amsterdam

16:15 - 17:00   Conclusion et discussion générale
Cécile Michel, ArScAn, CNRS UMR 7041, Nanterre & Universität Hamburg