Prince of the Orient: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of H.I.H. Prince Takahito Mikasa

The Chalcolithic ceramic sequence of Telul eth-Thalathat II, Northern Iraq / Kazuya Shimogama -- Jezla : an Early-Middle Bronze Age site complex in the Middle Euphrates steppe, North Syria / Yoshihiro Nishiaki -- Ostrich eggshell use in Mesopotamia / Kazumi Oguchi -- The large architectural remains of the 2nd millennium BC unearthed at Kaman-Kalehöyük in Central Anatolia / Sachihiro Omura -- A study on the turning point of glyptic art in Anatolia based on the finds from Kaman-Kalehöyük / Masako Omura -- The development of the south coast of the Caspian Sea as a field for archaeological research : from the perspective of Japanese researchers / Tadahiko Ohtsu -- The root of Sasanian glass cups with circular facet-cut decoration / Yoshinobu Tatsumi and Yoshinari Abe -- Early Islamic glass bottle brought to Japan, now is Toshodaiji Temple / Takashi Taniichi -- Sowing and harvesting in rows : irrigation agriculture in late third-millennium Babylonia / Kazuya Maekawa -- Reports of prophecy from Mari : a revisit / Ichiro Nakata -- "Clay pit, you are the creator of God and Man!" : textual evidence for the sources of raw clay used in Mesopotamia / Greta van Buylaere, Chikako E. Watanabe and Mark Altaweel -- The 'overseers of the land' in the emar texts / Masamichi Yamada -- Some aspects of the royal family of the Shutrukid Dynasty, Middle Elam / Eiko Matsushima -- Neo-Assyrian trading posts on the East Mediterranean cost and "Ionians" : an aspect of Assyro-Greek contact / Shigeo Yamada -- Assurbanipal and his brothers considered from the references in Esarhaddon's Succession Oath Documents / Kazuko Watanabe -- Relational units in cuneiform writing : two cases of comparative graphemics / Jun Ikeda -- Statement-development-twist-denouement :the AA'XB pattern in biblical Hebrew poetry / David Toshio Tsumura.