Volume 17, 2002
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note
ARTICLES
Guo Dantong, The Relationship Between Egypt and Palestine in the Early Bronze Age (ca.3400-2000BCE) 1
Peter Beylage, Propaganda in Ancient Egyptian Texts: An Attempt at Definition 7
Shamus Sillar, The Eastern Expedition of Lucius Verus (AD162-166) 13
Ronald Newbold, Ridicule, Insults and Abuse in Ammianus and Gregory of Tours 39
Andrew C. Sneddon, Worlds Within Worlds: Perceptions of Space, Place and Landscape in Ancient Greece 59
Gong Yushu, A Homonymous List: Idu II (CT 11, 29-32, D. T. 40) 77
Magnus Widell, Reconstructing the Early History of the Ur III State:
Some Methodological Considerations of the Use of Year Formulae 99
Wu Yuhong, The Calendar Synchronization and the Intercalary Months
in Umma, Puzriš-Dagan, Nippur, Lagaš and Ur during the Ur III Period 113
REVIEWS
Augustus, by Pat Southern (Wang Guiling) 135
Slaves, Masters and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy, by Kathleen McCarthy (James Stewart) 136
Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon, by Stephen R. Wilk (Xu Xiaoxu) 139
Ordering Anarchy: Leaders and Armies in Tacitus’ Histories, by Rhiannon Ash (Zhang Nan) 144
Hittite Diplomatic Texts, 2ndedition, by Gary Beckman (Li Zheng) 146
REPORTS
The Development of Egyptology in China (Linhu Ruoming) 149
M. A. and Ph. D. Dissertations 2001-02, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations,
Northeast Normal University, Changchun 152
Books Received 153
Volume 18, 2003
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Gong Yushu,The Names of Cuneiform Signs 1
Wu Yuhong, The Nippur Bankers’ Archives during the Ur III Period 23
Igor Sviatopolk-Tchetvertynski, Notes on the Structure of theIncantation of Maqlû Series 53
Guo Dantong,The Relationship between Egypt and Syria- Palestine in the Late Bronze Age (ca.1550/1500 –1200 BCE) 63
Farhang Khademi Nadooshan, Ali Reza Qaderi, Rohollah Yousefi,Disappearing of Greek Legends in the North East of Iran 75
Gong Xiuhua,The Effects of the Punic Wars on Rome 83
Michele Valerie Ronnick, Enargeia in Cicero’s Paradoxa Stoicorum 93
James J. Stewart,Who Surrendered to Claudius at Camulodunum in A. D. 43? 97
Victor Rebrik,Sources of the Excursus about the Jews (Tacitus,HistoriaeV, 1-10) 103
G. W. Adams,The Connection between Romano-Celtic Temples and Rural Romanised Villas in Britain:
an Examination of Some Possible Sites in Gloucestershire 113
REVIEWS
Roman Religion,by Clifford Ando (Victor Rebrik) 123
An Introduction to Roman Religion,by John Scheid (Victor Rebrik) 124
REPORT
M. A. and Ph. D. Dissertations 2003, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations,
Northeast Normal University, Changchun 125
Books Received 126
Volume 19, 2004
CONTENTS
Editor’s note
ARTICLES
Wu Yuhong, Donkey Fodders of the House of the Lady and Decline of Urukagina’s Regime from His Fifth Year 1
Yuan Zhihui, Amurru’s Expansion and Egypt’s Response in the Amarna Age 21
Turgut Yiğit, Sequence of Internal Events During the Foundation Period of the Hittite Kingdom 33
Mirco Hüneburg, Privatbesitz und Amtsbesitz der ägyptischen Nomarchen im Mittleren Reich 45
Marie-Françoise Besnier, Vegetation in Mesopotamian temple precincts: gardens, “sacred groves” or potted plants? 59
Guo Dantong, The Relationship between Egypt and Palestine in the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1550/1500 BCE.) 89
Victor Rebrik,Zur Frage der kartwelo-sumerischen Sprachenfamilie 101
Chen Kefeng,A Perspective of thesenatus consultum ultimum
in the Late Roman Republic from the Constitutional Point of View 125
REVIEWS
Women of Ancient Greece, by Pierre Brulé(Guo Xia) 133
Athenian Democracy, by R. J. Rhodes (Victor Rebrik) 135
Diocletian and the Tetrarchy, by R. Rees (Victor Rebrik) 136
Salt and Olives: Morality and Custom in Ancient Greece, by J. Dillon (Victor Rebrik) 137
REPORTS
M. A. and Ph .D. Dissertations 2004, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations,
Northeast Normal University, Changchun 139
Books Received 140
