<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpe26365e7yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>The editors of The Journal of Ancient Civilizations are pleased to announce the publication of JAC 39/1 (2024)</div><div><br></div><div>ARTICLES</div><div>SUCH-GUTIÉRREZ, MARCOS: The Sumerian Term u8/ud5/ab2/eme3/6 sila4/maš2/amar du3(-a) (1-28)</div><div>WARNKING, PASCAL: Trade Dependencies and Transaction Costs: The Occupation of Decelea Highlights both the Benefits and the Drawbacks of a Maritime Economy (29-50)</div><div>ZHANG, HONGXIA / WEBSTER, ELIZABETH: Image-building and Framing Processes of an Anti-Mother/-Woman in Cicero’s Pro Cluentio (51-72)</div><div>GIRARDIN, MICHAËL: Le demi-sicle, de Moïse au fiscus Iudaicus. Histoire d’une téléologie (73-98)</div><div><br></div><div>RESEARCH SURVEY: SPACE, TOPOGRAPHY, AND CARTOGRAPHY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, PART III</div><div>BERTI, IRENE: Der spatial turn in den klassischen Altertumswissenschaften (und speziell in der Epigraphik) (99-121)</div><div>Abstracts (123-125)</div><div><br></div><div>Abstracts</div><div><br></div><div>Marcos SUCH-GUTIERREZ (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)</div><div>THE SUMERIAN TERM u8/ud5/ab2/eme3/6 sila4/maš2/amar du3(-a) </div><div>(pp. 1–28)</div><div>doi: 10.16758/j.cnki.1004-9371.2024.02.015</div><div><br></div><div>The aim of the present article is twofold: firstly, to prove that the expression animal+young du3(-a), which is basically documented in texts from the 3rd millennium BC, refers to a dam that has just given birth, and secondly, to show the information concerning female animals and their newborns available in the texts.</div><div>Keywords: 3rd millennium BC – female animal+young du3(-a) – livestock – newborn – suckling animal – Ur III period</div><div><br></div><div>Pascal WARNKING (Trier University and LEIZA)</div><div>TRADE DEPENDENCIES AND TRANSACTION COSTS: THE OC-CUPATION OF DECELEA HIGHLIGHTS BOTH THE BENEFITS AND THE DRAWBACKS OF A MARITIME ECONOMY (pp. 29–50)</div><div>doi: 10.16758/j.cnki.1004-9371.2024.02.016</div><div>Thucydides asserts that the occupation of Decelea by the Spartans in 413 BC made the grain supply for Athens costly by forcing the transport from land onto the sea. This calls into question the well-established consensus that sea transport was far cheaper than land transport. This paper contends that the cost of protecting supply lines – specifically the expenses associated with the warships which escorted the supply ships – rendered the grain transported on the new route exceptionally costly. In this paper, the benefits and drawbacks of a maritime economy, including transaction costs, trade dependencies, and the capabilities of warships and supply ships are discussed.</div><div>Keywords: convoy – Decelea – maritime dependencies – maritime economy – sea routes – shipping costs – transaction costs </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hongxia ZHANG / Elizabeth WEBSTER (IHAC, NENU, Changchun)</div><div>IMAGE-BUILDING AND FRAMING PROCESSES OF AN ANTI-MO-THER / -WOMAN IN CICERO’S PRO CLUENTIO (pp. 51–72)</div><div>doi: 10.16758/j.cnki.1004-9371.2024.02.017</div><div>In this case study we explore Cicero’s processes of framing and image-building regarding the concept of an anti-mother/-woman. For this we examine Cicero’s portrayal of Sassia, a woman who features as one of the main antagonists of his speech Pro Cluentio. We analyse Cicero’s depiction of Sassia’s evilness towards her son, Cluentius, through the lens of frame and framing theories. By doing so, this case study aims to present a deeper understanding of Cicero’s stratagems (e.g., priming, calling for action; nudging, pushing someone towards action; and affordance, offering a frame to act outside of or within) which were employed in order to devise a negative characterisation of Sassia. The application of this methodological approach to Cicero’s framing of Sassia provides a new scope for analysing not only the classical text itself but also for the analysis of ancient human society to which it belonged.</div><div>Keywords: affordance – Cicero – frames & framing – image-building – nudging & priming – Roman Republic – stereotypes </div><div><br></div><div>Michaël GIRARDIN (Université du Littoral – Côte d’Opale)</div><div>LE DEMI-SICLE, DE MOÏSE AU FISCUS IUDAICUS. HISTOIRE D’UNE TÉLÉOLOGIE (pp. 73–98)</div><div>doi: 10.16758/j.cnki.1004-9371.2024.02.018</div><div>Many sources are brought together in scholarship in order to write the linear story of a specific tax, the half shekel tax paid each year by the Jews to the Temple of Jerusalem and, then, confiscated by the fiscus Iudaicus in Roman times. But do these sources refer to the same tax? In this paper, I defend the idea that the linearity of this story is a fiction. Many taxes were levied and justified by the memory of a Biblical tax, but they are all different in meaning, in administration and sometimes even in value. The story is a political one: how to justify a tax in ancient Judaism? </div><div>Keywords: didrachm – fiscus Iudaicus – half shekel – Jerusalem Temple – Roman Judea – taxation – teleology</div><div><br></div><div>RESEARCH SURVEY: SPACE, TOPOGRAPHY, AND CARTOGRAPHY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, PART III</div><div>Critical approaches to the study of geography in general, and to space, topography, and cartography in particular have enriched historical studies over the past decades. In a series of survey articles starting from JAC 38/1 (2023) onwards, we intend to provide an overview of current research and discussions within the various disciplines of ancient western studies and regions of the ancient world, ranging from the Ancient Near East and Egypt by way of the Graeco-Roman periods to Late Antiquity.</div><div><br></div><div>Irene BERTI (Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg)</div><div>DER SPATIAL TURN IN DEN KLASSISCHEN ALTERTUMSWISSEN-SCHAFTEN (UND SPEZIELL IN DER EPIGRAPHIK) </div><div>(pp. 99–121)</div><div>doi: 10.16758/j.cnki.1004-9371.2024.02.019</div><div>Since the 1990s the so-called spatial turn has brought back space and topography into the discussion within historical studies, particular ancient studies. This survey reviews current trends and developments within the field and offers some perspectives on possible future developments related to space, material, objects, their agency, and frames.</div><div>Keywords: agency – frames – material – objects – space – spatial turn – topography</div><div><br></div></div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydpe26365e7signature"><div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span><strong>Prof. Dr. phil. Sven Günther, M.A.</strong></span></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div style="color:black;"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span> </span></div></div><div style="color:black;"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span>Vice-director of the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC)</span></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span>Executive editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ancient Civilizations (JAC)</span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span>IHAC- and JAC-homepage: <a href="http://ihac.nenu.edu.cn/" style="text-decoration-line:underline;color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ihac.nenu.edu.cn/</a></span></div></div></div><div style="color:black;"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span>Co-Editor of the Marburger Beiträge zur Antiken Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (MBAH) </span></div></div><div style="color:black;"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span> </span></div></div><div style="color:black;"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span>Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC) </span></div></div><div style="color:black;"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span>Northeast Normal University</span></div></div><div style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span>5268 Renmin Street</span></div><div style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span>130024 Changchun</span></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal">Jilin Province</div></div><div style="color:black;"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span>People's Republic of China </span></div></div></div><div style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span> </span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span>phone: +49-160-96828782</span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span>Email: sveneca@aol.com / svenguenther@nenu.edu.cn</span></div></div></div><div style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;" class="ydpe26365e7yiv4175135768MsoNormal"><span>Homepage: <a href="https://nenu-cn.academia.edu/SvenG%C3%BCnther" style="text-decoration-line:underline;color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://nenu-cn.academia.edu/SvenGünther</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>