Volume 10, 1995
CONTENTS
Editor's Note
Obituary: Hu Houxuan 1
ARTICLES
Hu Houxuan, Xia and the Tu State in the Oracle Inscriptions: A Consideration 3
Lilia Bayun, Remarks on Hittite “Traditional Literature” (Cannibals in Northern Syria ) 21
Chen Xu, Hittiteker/kart-“Heart”: Functional and Ritual Aspects 33
Terence DuQuesne, Openers of the Paths: Canid Psychopomps in Ancient Egypt and India 41
Guo Dantong, The Inscription of Khnumhotpe II: a New Study 54
Thomas G. Lee, A Table for Ištar 65
Lin Zhichun, Huangdi, Gonghe, Confucius and Chen Wang: On the Classical Tradition of the Periodization of Ancient
Chinese Classical Civilization 71
Edmund S. Meltzer, An Observation on Nominal Sentence withN-Demostratives in Classical Egyptian 83
Fritz-Heiner Mutschler,dialogiandepistulaeObservations on Seneca's Development as a Philosophical Writer 85
Antonio Pérez Largacha, Chiefs & Chiefdoms in Protodynastic Egypt 101
P. Ruth Taylor-Briggs, Critical Observations on the Text of the Fourth Book of Valerius Flaccus'sArgonautica 111
Wu Yuhong, High-ranking “Scribes” and Intellectual Governors during the Akkadian and Ur III Periods 127
REVIEW
“Xia and the Tu State in the Oracle Inscriptions: A Consideration”,Hu Houxuan Gudai Chengbang Shi Yanjiu,
pp. 340-353 (Ri Zhi) 147
The Followers of Horus. Studies Dedicated to Michael Allen Hoffman, eds. Renée Friedman and Barbara Adams
(Edmund S. Meltzer) 149
REPORT
M. A. and Ph. D. Dissertations 1994-95, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, Northeast Normal
University, Changchun 155
Volume 11, 1996
CONTENTS
Editor's Note
Obituary: Zhou Gucheng 1
ARTICLES
Ding Xun, Tablet UET 6/II 398 3
Terence DuQuesne, The “Tonsured Ones” of Hathor 21
Gong Changwei & Liu Jian, Court Institutions of the Western Zhou Dynasty Reflected in the Inscription
on the Xiaoyu-Ding-Cauldron 31
Bernhard Kytzler, Sola Fida Suis: Die Hypsiple-Erzählungdes Statius (Thebias, Buch 5) 43
Edmund S. Meltzer, Egyptian df3 “Purify, Wipe Away”= Semitickpr? 53
Duane W. Roller, Augustan Literary Circles and Herod the Great 57
Wu Yuhong, The Ewes without Lambs and Lambs Cooked in É-uz-ga, “The Private House of Kings”,
in the Drehem Archives 65
Zheng Dianhua, On the Role of Lu-Ninurta in Hammurapi's Administrative Structure 111
REVIEW ARTICLES
Edmund S. Meltzer, “Who Knows the Color of God?” 123
REPORT
M. A. and Ph. D. Dissertations 1995-96, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, Northeast Normal
University, Changchun 131
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Announcement of the Second International Conference on Ancient World History 133
Volume 12, 1997
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Editor's Note
ARTICLES
Marco Angelini, Did Protagoras have an Epistemology? 1
Robert L. Chard, Ancient Religion in China and the West Compared 11
Stephoanie Dalley, Babylonian Influence in the Far East through the Buddha and Mani 25
J. de Roos, Anatolia and the Etruscans 37
Hao Jitao, A Survey on the ἀήρof Anaximenes and the Qi Doctrines of Ancient China 45
AntonyG. Keen, Eurymedon, Naxos and the Purpose of the Delian League 57
Lester J. Ness, The Zodiac in the Synagogue 81
B. Oded, Cutting down Orchards in Assyrian Royal Inscription─The Historiographic Aspect 93
W. Z. Rubinsohn, Macedon and Greece: The Case of Thebes 99
David Warburton, Kadesh and the Egyptian Empire 125
Wu Yuhong, The “Caterpillar-and-Herb” in Chinese Medicine and in Mesoptamian Medicine 149
REPORT
M.A. and Ph.D. Dissertations 1996-1997, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, Northeast Normal
University, Changchun