Proceedings of the International Conference of Near Easten Archaeomusicology : ICONEA 2008. Held at the British Museum December 4, 5 and 6, 2008 - Dumbrill, Richard; Finkel, Irving (ICONEA Lulu, 2010)
Possessed by the Great Mother: music and trance in ancient Pompeii and in the popular tradition of southern Italy / Roberto Melini -- New light on the Babylonian tonal system / Leon Crickmore -- The ancient Mesopotamian sistrum and its references in cuneiform literature: the identification of the šem and meze / Uri Gabbay -- Musical reconstruction of the Hurrian material by statistical analysis / David Halperin -- Another look at alleged ancient bagpipes / Terence Mitchell -- Playing in concert in the ancient Near East / Dominique Collon -- A queen's orchestra at the court of Mari: a new perspective on the archaic instrumentarium in the third millennium BC / Myriam Marcetteau -- Ancient Near Eastern and early Jewish traditions / Siam Bhayro -- Bull lyres, silver lyres, silver pipes and animals in Sumer / Bo Lawergren -- A Sumerian text in quantified archaeomusicology / Ernest McClain -- Evidence and inference in texts of theory in the ancient Near East / Richard Dumbrill -- A traveler's tales: observations on musical mobility in Mesopotamia and beyond / Piotr Michalowski -- Musical ensembles in ancient Mesopotamia / Theo Krispijn -- A new hypothesis for the elaboration of heptatonic scales and consequences in understanding their origins / Amine Beyhom