De Babylone aux routes d’Arabie, portrait d’une orientaliste
Hommage à Béatrice André-Salvini
Edited by Ariane Thomas Edited by Pascal Butterlin Edited by Antoine Cavigneaux Edited by Mirjo Salvini Edited by Nicole Chevalier
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(October 2025)
ISBN: 9781805830245
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This tribute honours Beatrice Andre-Salvini’s legacy in Near Eastern archaeology, from her work at the Louvre to field missions and philological studies. Essays and testimonies reflect her impact on cuneiform research, exhibitions, heritage preservation, and the ancient cultures she passionately championed.
Beatrice Andre-Salvini was a leading figure in the field of Near Eastern archaeology, known for her transformative work at the Louvre, particularly the reorganisation of the Persian Achaemenid rooms and her stewardship of the museum’s cuneiform tablet collection. A passionate scholar and curator, she was instrumental in landmark exhibitions such as The Birth of Writing, Babylon, and Roads of Arabia, and was deeply committed to safeguarding the heritage of the Middle East through UNESCO-led efforts. Her scholarly interests spanned from cuneiform and linear Elamite to Urartu, Ugarit, and the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia. Whether restoring Darius’s palace at Susa or reinterpreting the Niobe sculpture on Mount Sipylos, her contributions left an indelible mark on the field. This commemorative volume honours Beatrice’s legacy through a collection of personal tributes and academic essays from colleagues and friends. It reflects the breadth of her work-from archaeological missions in Bahrain and interpretations of Urartian inscriptions to the conservation of clay tablets using innovative methods. Essays also highlight her philological achievements, including the decoding of rare trilingual Ugaritic texts and her dedication to the lives and work of pioneering Orientalists. More than a scholarly tribute, the book is a heartfelt homage to a life spent revealing and preserving the cultural wealth of the ancient Near East.
Avant-propos – Ariane Thomas et Mirjo Salvini
Béatrice André-Salvini Neuilly-sur-Seine, 27 janvier 1949-Paris, 24 novembre 2020 – Nicole Chevalier
Béatrice André-Salvini. Bibliographie – établie par Nicole Chevalier et Mirjo Salvini
Témoignages
Portfolio
L’abbé Jean Starcky et les archéologues syriens d’après deux documents photographiques conservés au département des Antiquités orientales du musée du Louvre – Michel Al-Maqdissi et Sidonia Obreja
Textes cunéiformes des fouilles de Qalʿat al-Baḥrain, Dilmun et le Pays de la Mer à l’aube de l’ère kassite – Béatrice André-Salvini (†), Antoine Cavigneaux et Pierre Lombard
Un lit nuptial sur un fragment de coquille d’incrustation de Mari ? – Dominique Beyer
Musei e beni culturali in tempo di guerra: alcune riflessioni – Maria Giovanna Biga
Le moulage du lion de Babylone du musée du Louvre – Vincent Blanchard
Ur-Utu, élève ou maître ?À propos de l’apprentissage du cunéiforme à Sippar-amnanum à l’époque
paléo-babylonienne tardive – Dominique Charpin
Henri Pognon, un orientaliste consul en Mésopotamie – Nicole Chevalier
Statues-menhirs d’Arabie : le pasteur et l’ancêtre – Marianne Cotty
Note d’iconographie achéménideLe combat du lion et du taureau à Suse – Julien Cuny
Oxford Proto-Elamite – Jacob L. Dahl
Between Assyria and Urartu. A Study of the Political Entity of Mannaea Based on its Archaeology, Onomastic, and Toponomastic – Roberto Dan and Adriano V. Rossi
Un fragment d’un très ancien évangéliaire syriaque au Louvre – Alain J. Desreumaux
Sur les traces de Gudea. Recherches de provenance d’antiquités néo-sumériennes dans la base de données des objets d’art du Jeu de Paume – Nicolas Benoit et Anne Dunn-Vaturi
Balance and the Bilingual Brain – Irving Finkel
Note sur un vase méconnu de la collection Désiré-Albert Barre. De bucchero à black burnished ware – Françoise Gaultier
No One Likes a Besserwisser. A New Look at OB Akkadian Proverbs – Mark J. Geller
The “Taymāʾ Stone” in the Light of New Research – Arnulf Hausleiter
La conservation-restauration des tablettes cunéiformes en terre crue. Un projet à long terme – Anne Liégey
Un joint entre deux fragments de tablettes de Nuzi AO 7775 (TCL 9 25) et BM 81509 (SANTAG 4 61) – Brigitte Lion et Véronique Pataï
La clause « aller à l’eau » à Suse : ordalie ou mise au ban publique ? – Florence Malbran-Labat
Un document inédit du bureau d’Enlila dans les collections du Louvre (AO 32469) – Jaroslaw Maniaczyk
Béatrice André-Salvini et la mission archéologique de Bash Tapa Quelques souvenirs – Lionel Marti
Eine Wiedervereinigung. Schreibtechnische Betrachtungen zum astrologischen Text VAT 7814 + AO 6470 der Serie Enūma Anu Enlil – Joachim Marzahn
Un reflet du texte du Broken Obelisk à Qasr-Shemamok/Kilizu – Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault et Olivier Rouault
Que les hommes-scorpions gardent le passage à tout jamais ! – Valérie Matoïan
Des échanges à longue distance entre l’Égypte et le Proche-Orient (2350-1800 avant notre ère)
Acteurs et produits à la lumière de quelques découvertes récentes – Juan Carlos Moreno García
Friedrich Eduard Schulz et les Annales d’Argišti I à Van Kalesi – Mirjo Salvini
Les remparts de Larsa : le mystère résolu ? – Régis Vallet
Un ancien exemple de coopération dans le domaine des études hourrites – Gernot Wilhelm
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- Edited by Pascal Butterlin
- Edited by Antoine Cavigneaux
- Edited by Mirjo Salvini
- Edited by Nicole Chevalier
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