56th World Congress for Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology, Barcelona 2010 -- Address (July 26, 2010) Prof. Joaquín Sanmartín Chairman -- Opening Lectures -- Time before Time: -- Primeval Narratives in Early Mesopotamian Literature -- The Extent of Literacy in Syria and Palestine during the Second Millennium b.c.e. -- Time and History in the Ancient Near East -- Time "Pulled up" in Ashurnasirpal's Reliefs -- Akkadian and Aramaic Terms for a 'Favorable Time' (ḫidānu, adānu, and ʻiddān): Semitic Precursors of Greek kairos? -- Masters of Time: Old Babylonian Kings and Calendars -- Notes on the Neo-Assyrian Siege-Shield and Chariot -- Changing Space, Time, and Meaning: -- The Seal of Yaqaru from Ugarit-A Reconversion? -- Time in Neo-Assyrian Letters -- The Historical Preamble of the Talmi-Šarruma Treaty (CTH 75) and Some Chronological Problems of the History of Halap -- Magie et Histoire: les rituels en temps de guerre -- Time and Again: Marduk's Travels -- Time in Death and Afterlife: The Concept of Time and the Belief in Afterlife -- Concepts and Perception of Time in Mesopotamian Divination. -- Temps, mémoire et évolution des cultures aux époques archaïques: écriture du passé et listes lexicales -- Time in Ancient Israel: Hebrew ʻôlām, Past and Future -- "Lange Jahre" und Lebenszeit bei den Hethitern -- The Heuristic Value of E. de Martino's Concept of Metahistory and Related Topics in Research into Mesopotamian Cultural History -- "I Read the Inscriptions from before the Flood . . ." Neo-Sumerian Influences in Ashurbanipal's Royal Self-Image -- Mesopotamian Idea of Time through Modern Eyes (Disruption and Continuity) -- Temporalité et spatialité dans les rites de passage de l'Anatolie hittite -- Reconsidering the Categories of Time in Ancient Iraq.

"Internal" and "External" Evidence for a Reconstruction of Nuzi Chronology -- The Other Face of the Moon: -- Some Hints on the Visual Representation of the Moon on Third-Millennium b.c.e. Mesopotamian Glyptic -- The Tuleilat al-Ghassul Star Painting: A Hypothesis Regarding a Solar Calendar from the Fourth Millennium b.c. -- The Monster's Gaze: Vision as Mediator between Time and Space in the Art of Mesopotamia -- A Time to Rejoice: The Egalkura Rituals and the Mirth of Iyyar -- Der Kalendar von Adab im 3. Jahrtausend* -- Divine or Human Creation of Time? The Issue of Time as a Factor Determining the Relationship of Man to God -- Workshops -- Modern Architecture and Archaeology: -- The Case of the Hypothetical Reconstruction of the Neo-Assyrian Palace at Tell Massaïkh (Syria), 2007-2009 -- Idea and Image: How What We Know Determines What We Want to Know -- Architecture and Ancient Near East in Drawings, Buildings, and Virtual Reality -- Issues in Imagining and Designing Ancient and Modern Space -- Invented Space: -- Discovering Near Eastern Architecture through Imaginary Representations and Constructions -- Fragments d'arts mésopotamiens: aux origines des empires -- Reception of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture in Europe and North America in the 20th Century -- Assyrian Wall Paintings and Modern Reconstructions -- Form und Datierung früher semitischer Lehnwörter im Sumerischen -- Stativität und Perfektivität in den Ost- und Westsemitischen Sprachen -- A Hurro-Akkadian Expression for Changing One's Testimony Attested in Nuzi Trial Records -- Hurrian Personal Names in the Kingdom of Ḫatti -- Gedanken zu den Textstellen I:90 und III:30 in dem Mittanni-Brief -- Historical Context and Social Theories: Its Influence on the Study of Mesopotamian Juridical Phenomena -- The Importance of Time in Old Babylonian Juridical Texts.

Sag mir quando, sag mir wann. . . -- Contractual Formalism and Zukunftsbewältigung in Middle Assyrian Agricultural Accounting -- The Eponym Bēr-nādin-apli and the Documents Referring to the Expeditions to the City of Tille in the Reign of Tukultī-Ninurta I (1233-1197 b.c.e.)* -- Die tägliche Speisung des Assur (gināʼu) und deren politische Bedeutung -- Imperial Culture: Some Reflections on Middle Assyrian Settlements -- Varia -- Tugdamme and the Cimmerians: -- A Test of Piety in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions -- The Changing Approaches to History in the Neo-Assyrian Palace Reliefs -- Genres Meet: -- Assurbanipal's Prayer in the Inscription L4 and the Bilingual Communal Lamentations -- L'incorruptible et l'éphémère: le miel et la glace, composants sacrés des boissons royales -- Three Kings of the Orient in Archaic Ur -- Ilum-išar et Apil-kīn: deux nouvelles inscriptions de Mari -- A Few Thoughts about Late Chalcolithic Architecture and the Uruk Expansion in the Middle Euphrates Area -- Further Considerations on the Ankara Silver Bowl -- The Evolution of the Side Court House in Late MB Central and Southwestern Anatolia -- The Role of the Saĝĝa in Ur III Based on the Puzriš-Dagān Texts -- Life Extension -- Secondary Burial and the Making and Unmaking of Self in EB IA -- The Offering for the Ritual of King Seleucus III and His Offspring -- Some New Light on Pre-Sargonic Umma -- Settlement Patterns and Interactions in the West Bank Highlands in the Iron Age I Period: A New Approach -- Computational and Spatial Approaches to the Commercial Landscapes and Political Geography of the Old Assyrian Colony Period -- Eunuchs in Hatti and Assyria: A Reassessment -- Eridu Texts -- Les particularités d'emploi des signes cunéiformes à différentes périodes de la langue hittite.

Recent Researches in the Erbil Region: 2010 Excavations in Kilik Mishik (Iraqi Kurdistan) -- Wer war Großkönig I(a)+ra/i-TONITRUS der KARAHÖYÜK-Inschrift? -- Identification of an Unfinished Statue Found in a Quarry at Karakiz, Yozgat, Turkey.