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When the Aḥīrōm sarcophagus inscription from Byblos was first published in 1924, the reconstruction of the name of Aḥīrōm’s son in the only lacuna of the text was a subject of debate. After different proposals the name Ittōbaᶜal had prevailed until recent editions, entitling him also a place among the early first millennium kings of Byblos. A new epigraphic evaluation however shows that this established reading is almost impossible. By the help of modern palaeographic and calligraphic methods a new reconstruction is offered and it will be shown that the name of Aḥīrōm’s son must have been Pulsibaᶜl or Pilsibaᶜl. In consequence, also the genealogy of the early first millennium kings of Byblos has to be re-written.

This paper summerizes the hellenistic coin finds on sites BEY 002, BEY 006, BEY 004, BEY 026, BEY 145, BEY 125, BEY 133, BEY 142 and BEY 144 from Beirut. The full data presented the VXth INC Glasgow, 2009,  are consultable in the "Talks" section of the current page of Academia.

Egypt and Byblos maintained privileged relationships from the IIIrd mill. BC. But the collapse of the regional system of Bronze Age changed the conditions of development of those relationships during the IInd mill. Egypt had to match the new political and economic structure of the Near East and experienced widespread domestic instability. The situation was overturned with the coming of Assyrian and Babylonian imperial powers on the regional stage. This paper focus on the evolution of Egyptian-Byblian relationships in this new political scene.

Nel corso del 2011 la Soprintendenza è intervenuta in tre scavi d’urgenza nell’area della necropoli punica di Palermo, tra Piazza Indipendenza e Corso Calatafimi. Come è noto, la necropoli punica della città antica si sviluppa intorno all’odierno asse viario di Corso Calatafimi a Ovest del centro storico e occupa una vasta area compresa tra Corso Pisani, via Cappuccini, via Cuba (Di Stefano 1998, Spatafora 2010). I due scavi in Corso Calatafimi sono legati ai lavori di ristrutturazione di due edifici ottocenteschi posti quasi l’uno di fronte all’altro, il palazzetto Orlando, di proprietà della Provincia Regionale di Palermo e un edificio ai civici 133-137 di proprietà privata; i saggi sono ubicati nell’area degli ex giardini all’interno dei due complessi edilizi. Il terzo intervento si localizza in Piazza Indipendenza di fronte la sede della Presidenza della Regione ed è stato effettuato in conseguenza dell’improvviso sprofondamento della sede stradale dovuto alla presenza di cavità. Pur essendo lo studio ed il restauro dei reperti in fase ancora iniziale, è possibile presentare una sintesi dei risultati delle indagini.

Study of 2189 coins found on three archaeological sites in Jemmayzeh, the eastern entry of Beirut. The finds stretch from the Persian to the modern period. The Medieval and contemporary coins are studied by Hassan el-Akra. Find attached the contents and the introduction.

La ‘Tabboulé’, ce mets à base de persil et de blé dur  occupe une place centrale sur les tables de plusieurs pays de la Méditerranée orientale d’aujourd’hui. Toutefois, la parcimonie des sources signale notre ignorance sur l’origine de ce plat. L’objet de notre étude est d’élucider ce point inexploré de l’histoire culinaire, en mettant l’accent sur l’étymologie du terme ‘Tabboulé’ dans le but de proposer une  histoire de ce plat. Nous commencerons par la recherche des premières sources écrites mésopotamiennes et égyptiennes, afin de trouver ce qui pourrait avoir un lien avec le terme et le plat. Ensuite, nous examinerons ces sources en les confrontant avec d’autres afin de proposer des pistes quant à l’origine de ce plat et à son histoire. Enfin, nous proposerons des réponses aux questions autour de la notoriété de ce plat, et les modalités de sa diffusion au Proche-Orient et en Méditerranée.

"The Tyrrhenian Sea appears as a geographically well defined space, enclosed within the Italian coasts and the big islands. During the Protohistoric Age, therefore, this is the scenery of development for a mosaic of cultures whose some will produce the under-layer of great ancient civilizations. With the setting of the cultural, commercial and colonial nets, of archaic and then classic periods, native and far-away peoples here give their contribution to the building up of new complex identities, although joined together thanks to the shared vector of the navigations and of the exchanges. Their cohabitation on a territory more and more reduced by the economic tensions and by the early will of predominance, at the origin of the first international conflicts in the Western Mediterranean Sea, will arrive therefore very often to some worthy forms of syncretism and of melting, voluntary or forced ones. Therefore, Ligurians, Etruscans and other peoples of the Pre-Roman Italy, Sicilians, Sardinians, Corses, but also Greeks and Punicians have given a contribute, after a balance concept, continuously put under discussion, into writing almost four centuries of small or big stories, up to the arrival of the Roman world.
The aim of the international day of studies FERTIGE13 (acronym of Iron –Age-, Tyrrhenian –Sea-, Genoa 2013) is to make dynamic the net of the young researchers, gathering about a dozen of PhD students and PhD doctors (up to five years since the end of the PhD), from different nations, who deal subjects concerning the space and the chronology in this way defined for the meeting, with a special remark for the inter-disciplinary approaches. The lecturers will be invited to present some papers related to this subject, pointing out the setting within a context on an inter-regional scale and focusing on the concerned methods, in the optic to compare at the best the nowadays dynamics of research among the different institutions."