Res Antiquae XXI (2024) Res Antiquae (RANT). — Volume Amicorum René Lebrun, founder of the Journal.ISSN 1781-1317Table of contents | Buy 65,00 € South Semitic abecedaries in the Arabian Peninsula. Some contextual and functional issues = Paper = Alessio AGOSTINI, Davide D’IMPERIO. — Les abécédaires, soit des documents épigraphiques qui présentent une succession ordonnée de lettres, constituent dans le monde sémitique une catégorie textuelle plutôt composite susceptible de donner lieu à plusieurs interprétations… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Et si on reparlait du crime d’Aphroditopolis... Réminiscences de mythologies régionales égyptiennes dans le De Iside et Osiride de Plutarque = Paper = Sydney H. AUFRÈRE. — This article looks at the subject from the angle of the crime at Aphroditopolis, where the goddess Isis is beheaded by her son Horus, and the consequences of this… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / An Auriga from Emar = Paper = Maria Elena BALZA. — In the 13th century BCE, the city of Emar was controlled by the kings of Karkemiš, who acted as Hittite viceroys in Syria… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / L’élimination du sacrifice humain dans l’ancien Israël et à Rome. Sacrifice d’Isaac et étiologies romaines = Paper = Dominique BRIQUEL. — The famous story of the sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham which is related in the book of Genesis offers a case of substitution of an animal victim for a human one… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / In the land of the Urartians and the Alarodians. The Kancıklı fortress and the Urartian presence in the Patnos plain, eastern Turkey = Paper = Roberto DAN. — Among the numerous Urartian archaeological sites known in the northern area of the Lake Van catchment area, one of the most important is certainly that of Kancıklı… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / On some action nominals in Hittite. The locution arkuwar tiyauwar = Paper = Paola DARDANO. — Action nominals are mixed categories: although they have nominal external distribution, their internal syntax is not unlike that of a verb phrase… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Les citations d’atellanes chez Nonius = Paper = Estelle DEBOUY. — We know little about the atellane, the comedies which staged typical characters (Maccus, Pappus, Bucco and Dossennus) that originated with the Oscians and were in vogue under Sylla… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Du grec écrit en caractères ibères ? = Paper = Arnaud DELANOY. — Among the old writing systems of the Iberian peninsula, the Levantine system, also used in the south of Gaul, was a means to denote Iberian and Celtiberian… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Rêve et thérapie. Analyse clinique et psychologique de quelques cas oniriques dans les Iamata d’Épidaure en Grèce ancienne = Paper = Pierre Mbid Hamoudi DIOUF. — This article concerns a category of dreams that have attracted the attention of the Ancients. These were dreams deemed to be "extraordinary", the content of which had a considerable impact on or foretold the dreamer… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / La consolation comme vecteur d’éducation éthique et émotionnelle. Étude chez Plutarque, Saint Basile et Porphyre = Paper = Stéphane FAYE. — This paper aims to show that Plutarch, Saint Basil and Porphyry, in their consolatory epistles, don’t show only their compassion for their addressees. Instead, they give them a cathartic and heuristic power… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Progrès techniques et innovations dans la production de l’argent au Laurion (Attique, Ve-IVe siècles av. n. ère) = Paper = Christophe FLAMENT. — This study is devoted to the techniques and forms of exploitation of mining production in Laurion (Attica) during the 5th and 4th centuries BCE… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / The name of the “pig” in Hittite texts. Onomatopoeic ‘games’ in the Hittite language = Paper = Rita FRANCIA, Marianna POZZA. — This contribution will analyse the Hittite word ḫuntara-, both from the point of view of textual occurrence contexts and from an etymological one… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Against the metaphor of the “club” of the great powers? = Paper = Federico GIUSFREDI. — In this paper, I will reassess the merit of the metaphor of the “club” of the Great Kings as a descriptive model of the political and diplomatic dynamics of the Ancient Near East during the Late Bronze Age… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Les origines de l’indo-européen. Nouvelles recherches, antécédents, méthodologie, bilan et conclusions = Paper = Jean-Pierre LEVET. — Despite the publication of numerous works on the origins of Indo-European, the scientific community remains generally skeptical about the existence of a Eurasian or Nostratic macrofamily… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / A proposito di un rilievo marmoreo del Museo Etrusco Guarnacci. Un contributo alla conoscenza di Volterra in età romana = Paper = Valentina LIMINA, Marco CAVALIERI. — This brief paper is about an important marble relief from a public but still unknown monument in Roman Volterra… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Muršili II’s Pestgebet KBo 14.75. An exercise in textual reconstruction = Paper = Valerio PISANIELLO. — This article proposes a new edition of Muršili II’s highly fragmentary Pestgebet KBo 14.75… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Riferimenti alla scrittura cuneiforme in Eschilo? Alcune riflessioni su Sette contro Tebe, v. 468 = Paper = Claudia POSANI. — This paper is focused on line 468 of the Aeschylean tragedy “Seven against Thebes”… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Zeus et ses concurrents. Réflexions sur un phénomène d’olympianisation = Paper = Éric RAIMOND. — Some texts let appear some rivals, who reveal a pantheon prior to Olympian Order… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Un professeur émérite qui le mérite et qui aime les Hittites. Une lettre à René Lebrun = Paper = Jan TAVERNIER. — Dans cette brève lettre je souhaite partager quelques souvenirs des nombreux moments que nous avons déjà vécus ensemble, quand tu étais d’abord mon professeur, et puis mon collègue et ami… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Le monde végétal dans les religions égéennes = Paper = Jacques VANSCHOONWINKEL. — Il est notoire que les Crétois du IIe millénaire avaient une attirance pour la nature dans tous ses aspects… Abstract | Volume | Other papers /