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Gonzalo Rubio

Pennsylvania State University, Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Faculty Member

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Books by Gonzalo Rubio

Society and the Individual in Ancient Mesopotamia, edited by Laura Culbertson & Gonzalo Rubio (SANER 33. De Gruyter, 2024).

Society and the Individual in Ancient Mesopotamia, 2024

This book provides an overview of social life in ancient Mesopotamia, bringing together leading e... more This book provides an overview of social life in ancient Mesopotamia, bringing together leading experts to survey key social domains of daily life as well as major non-dominant social groups. It serves as a point of entry to the current research in this field.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501517655/html

The First Ninety Years: A Sumerian Celebration in Honor of Miguel Civil (ed. Feliu, Karahashi & Rubio). SANER 12. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017.

by Gonzalo Rubio and Fumi Karahashi

https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/466268

Papers by Gonzalo Rubio

Semitic and Indo-European: The principal etymologies by Saul Levin

Language, 1998

Mitología y Religión del Oriente Antiguo, I: Egipto-Mesopotamia

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1998

Inanna and Dumuzi: A Sumerian Love Story

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Apr 1, 2001

Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears... more Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact

It Was and It Was Not: On the History and Functional Yield of Case Markers in Semitic Morphosyntax.

Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Comparative Study of Semitic Languages: Proceedings of the 7th and 8th Meetings of the International Association for Comparative Semitics (ed. T. Holm & J.P. Monferrer-Sala)., 2026

The morphological (synthetic) coding of syntactical cases could be regarded as more formally comp... more The morphological (synthetic) coding of syntactical cases could be regarded as more formally complex than their syntactical (analytic) marking. Nonetheless, a multilayered system of choices (with cases and caseless), determined by registers and by social and regional variables, constitutes an inherent complexifier of both the competence and the performance of speakers, their langue and parole. Early Arabic seems to exhibit sufficient evidence to support the existence of varieties of performance without case endings, which required on the part of the language itself the competence to supply other parameters to mark those same syntactical functions. Redundancy is a condition for the possibility of grammatical options: optionality requires the functional redundancy of discrete elements within different subsystems of a language (morphology, syntax, pragmatics).
In contrast to Early Arabic, Akkadian would seem to bear witness to a traditional model of morphological reduction. This is, nevertheless, also a function of the nature of the Mesopotamian textual evidence, which was constrained by the interface of the cuneiform logosyllabic writing system and the conservative nature of its scribal traditions. As seen above, there are sufficient clues to postulate a scenario in firstmillennium Akkadian, in which forms with and without case endings coexisted long before the writing interface began to give away hints of the loss of final short vowels

The Expression on the Face of the Words (On Enheduanna)

Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, 2024

Review of Sophus Helle, The Complete Poems of Enheduana, the World’s First Author (New Haven, Con... more

Phoenicians in the Iberian Peninsula and the Matter of Tartessos (JAOS 2020)

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2020

In Greek and Roman sources, Tartessos designates a geographical area and a legendary kingdom that... more In Greek and Roman sources, Tartessos designates a geographical area and a legendary kingdom that flourished in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula between the eighth and seventh centuries bce. For decades, much research on pre-Roman Iberia has gravitated around the nature of Tartessos as an historical or mythical polity, its possible location, and the archaeological identification of Tartessic material culture. It seems now increasingly clear that what the Greeks called Tartessos was inextricably linked to the presence of Phoenician culture in the area. It is thus only fitting that the first book about the subject to be published in English approaches the evidence with a special focus on patterns and phenomena of cultural and economic contact between the Phoenicians and the locals.
DOI: 10.7817/jameroriesoci.140.1.0219
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7817/jameroriesoci.140.1.0219

The Sitting Moon and the Goats of Gilead: A Rare Akkadian Astronomical Term and a Hapax in Song of Songs.

From Mari to Jerusalem and Back: Assyriological and Biblical Studies in Honor of Jack Murad Sasson (Eisenbrauns)., 2020

How Eclipses Were Regarded as Omens in the Ancient World (The Conversation, August 8, 2017 - syndicated to various outlets)

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Sumerian Temples and Arabian Horses: On Sumerian e2-gal (in The First Ninety Years: A Sumerian Celebration in Honor of Miguel Civil. SANER 12. De Gruyter, 2017.)

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The Inventions of Sumerian: Literature and the Artifacts of Identity (in Problems of Canonicity & Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia. CNIP 43. 2016).

Gilgamesh and the ius primae noctis (Fs. Stolper, SAOC 68, 2014)

Rebecca cain, dennis campbell, and brian Keenan assisted in the production of this volume. Cover ... more

format_quoteGilgamesh's actions imply an early form of ius primae noctis, but this interpretation is challenged by historical inconsistencies.format_quote

SANGA2: A Graphic Story (RA 107, 2013)

The Sumerian term sanga 2 , which refers to a purification priest, is commonly regarded as writte... more The Sumerian term sanga 2 , which refers to a purification priest, is commonly regarded as written with the sign LAK-175 in ED. 1 Ebla, however, seems to bear witness to a scribal tradition that distinguished between SANGA 2 and LAK-175 as two distinct signs (Civil 1984: 95). Nevertheless, in most third-millennium texts, SANGA 2 and LAK-175 can be considered as one and the same. 2 The difference in question can be seen if one compares LAK-175 to SANGA 2 as attested in the Ebla Sign List (Archi 1987: 106):

Two Views on the Relative Temporal Clause, by G. Rubio & Ch. Woods (in Cuneiform Texts Primarily from Iri-Sagrig/Āl-Šarrākī and the History of the Ur III Period; NISABA 15, 2013)

Time before Time: Primeval Narratives in Early Mesopotamian Literature (CRRAI 56, 2013)

Reading Sumerian Names, II: Gilgamesh (JCS 64, 2012)

format_quoteGilgameš may originally represent a single name; 'bil' as 'male ancestor' and 'mes' as 'young man' suggest a deeper etymological significance.format_quote

Gods and Scholars: Mapping the Pantheon in Early Mesopotamia (in Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism, 2011)

Reading Sumerian Names, I: Ensuhkešdanna and Baba (JCS 62, 2010)

Scribal Secrets and Antiquarian Nostalgia: Tradition and Scholarship in Ancient Mesopotamia (Fs. Silva, AuOr Suppl., 2009)