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Jusqu’à peu, on ne savait pas grand-chose de ce royaume. On connaissait à travers quelques documents (Listes royales) l’existence d’une succession de souverains – une dizaine – qui avait régné sur cette principauté maritime de la Basse... more
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      AssyriologyAncient Near EastOld Babylonian periodMesopotamian history
The nature of the relationship between the Assyrian state and the Syro-Hittite states is often represented in the writings of archaeologists and ancient historians under the rubric of imperialism, Assyrian sovereignty, and the... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryCultural StudiesArchaeology
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      Ancient HistoryAssyriologyAncient Near EastMari Archives
Thoroughly rewritten 7th edition of a textbook for freshmen students of history, classics, archaeology, ancient studies and a general readership interested in the history of ancient Near East and the Graeco-Roman world. The new edition... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryEconomic HistoryArchaeology
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      ReligionHistoryMythologyAssyriology
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      AssyriologyAncient ReligionSumerologyKingship
Temples were nearly ubiquitous across the ancient Near East. Rather than serving as a gathering place for a worshipping congregation, a temple served as a terrestrial divine abode. In it, the god(s) lived amid society, yet carefully... more
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      Ancient Egyptian ReligionArchaeologyNear Eastern ArchaeologyEgyptian Art and Archaeology
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      HistoryAncient HistoryEgyptologyNear Eastern Archaeology
ISBN 978-619-176-205-7 This monograph is on the topic of my successfully defended PhD dissertation. The book examines the royal authority and ideology in the early Neo-Assyrian Empire (934–745 B.C.). Its aims can be summarized as... more
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      AssyriologyAssyriaAssyrian archaeologyCuneiform
An introductory overview of the compositional history and themes of the various versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh and the elements of tension and correspondence among them.
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      AssyriologySumerian & Akkadian literatureGilgamesh EpicAssyriology Sumerology Akkadian Sumerian Sumerian & Akkadian literature Sumerian Religion Mesopotamia History Ancient Mesopotamian Religions Cuneiform Ancient Near East Ancient Near Estern Languages Religious Studies
In this study, I argue that the literary depictions and iconographic images of wings on various hybrid creatures are a means of depicting that creature’s association with wind and the cardinal directions, and that recognizing this... more
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      EgyptologyAssyriologyHebrew BibleAncient Near East
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      Ancient HistoryAssyriologyAncient Near EastEskiçağ Tarihi
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      AssyriologyBabylonOld Babylonian periodNeo-Babylonian period
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      AssyriologyIberian StudiesIron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology)
During the third millennium BC, the huge geographical area stretching between the Mediterranean in the west and the Indus Valley in the east witnessed the rise of a commercial network of unmatched proportions and intensity, within which... more
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      ArchaeologyAssyriologyArchaeology of OmanArchaeology of Oman peninsula
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      AssyriologyMesopotamian ArchaeologyMesopotamia HistoryAncient Near East
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      Sumerian ReligionArchaeologyNear Eastern ArchaeologyHistorical Archaeology
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      Comparative ReligionMythology And FolkloreAncient HistoryFolklore
The King's Two Bodies- Reflexion on the Symbolic of Power Among the so-called Mari Prophetic Letters, one interesting text (ARM X 10) reports a cheerful vision of the king's return. The king, as usual, is acclaimed by the soldiers, in a... more
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      Military HistoryNear Eastern StudiesWomen's HistoryAssyriology
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      Historical GeographyAssyriologyNomadism
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      Ancient HistoryAssyriologyAncient Near EastFood Science and Technology
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      EducationAssyriologyLexicographyCuneiform
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/716031 Babylonian hermeneutics has been the subject of several studies in recent years that have showed that speculative thought exploited the potentiality of the cuneiform system through... more
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      Sumerian ReligionPhilosophyGreek LiteratureNear Eastern Studies
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      Sumerian ReligionAncient HistoryAssyriologyStereotypes
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      AssyriologyHistory of ReligionDivinationAncient Near East
A full ten years after its publication, here is the PDF of this book, drawn from a course held in Paris at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes - Section de sciences religieuses, by the kind invitation of Prof. M.G. Masetti. REVIEWS:... more
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      Military HistoryAssyriologyHistory of ReligionHistory of Imperialism
The Neo-Sumerian (Ur III) period is known for having produced tens of thousands of tablets though, paradoxically, much of the history and culture of this period remains in the dark. One of these areas is the history and organization of... more
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      Military HistoryAssyriologySumerianHistory and Administration of III Dynasty of Ur
Eski Mezopotamya'daki inanışa göre tanrılar insanlar hakkındaki düşüncelerini çeşitli yollardan mesajlar göndererek bildiriyorlardı. Gök olayları tanrı mesajlarını okumak için birer işaret olarak görülerek incelenip yorumlanmış ve... more
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      AssyriologyHistory of AstrologySumerianAkkadian
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Kinyras: The Divine Lyre is also available online through the CHS website: http://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/6329. The web version, however, does not have page numbers, so that internal... more
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      PhilologyReligionAncient Egyptian ReligionSumerian Religion
This article will examine the occurrence of the " Vanity Theme " in Mesopotamian wisdom literature and elsewhere. However, the main interest of this investigation lies in the list of rulers or illustrious men of old which is manifest in a... more
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      EgyptologyComparative LiteratureGreek LiteratureLatin Literature
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      Sumerian ReligionNear Eastern StudiesAssyriologyHebrew Bible
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      ClassicsAssyriologyHellenistic HistoryAncient Near East
In diesem Buch finden sich die Tagungsberichte des jahrlichen Kongresses fur Altorientalistik. In dieser Folge, mit dem Thema »Text und Bild«, fallt die ungewohnlich hohe Anzahl von Farbbildern ins Auge. Ausnahmsweise wurde die Rencontre... more
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      Ancient HistoryNear Eastern ArchaeologyAssyriologyCultural Heritage
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      HistoryAncient HistoryAssyriologyMesopotamia History
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      AssyriologyOld Assyrian Karu/Colony Period in AnatoliaKültepe/KaneshOld Assyrian Period
The recorded family division agreement in a deceased estate encompasses a variety of components, mechanisms and details ranging from elementary to lengthy and complex ones. Moreover, the agreement is drafted in accordance with the... more
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      AssyriologyOld Babylonian periodCuneiformAncient Law
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      ArchaeologyAssyriologyMiddle East HistoryMesopotamia History
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      Gender StudiesAssyriologyAssyriaAssyrian archaeology
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      AssyriologyHistory of ReligionMesopotamian ReligionsAssyrian Empire
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      Assyriologyancient Israelite History and HistoriograohyAncient Israelite History and Historiography
Akkadian is a fairly well resourced extinct language that does not yet have a comprehensive morphological analyzer available. In this paper we describe a general finite-state based morphological model for Babylonian, a southern dialect of... more
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      Computer ScienceAssyriologyComputational LinguisticsMorphology
If you would like a .pdf offprint of this article, please contact the author at jpnielsen@fsmail.bradley.edu
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      AssyriologyOld Babylonian periodSumerologyMiddle Babylonian period
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      Semitic languagesAssyriologyAncient Near EastAkkadian
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      AssyriologyCommentaries: History and TheoryLexicographyAncient Near East
The chief aim of this essay is to posit a well-known Mesopotamian royal and divine epithet, ušumgallu "great dragon," as the source behind Ezekiel's enigmatic description of Pharaoh in 29.3, hattannīn haggādôl, "the great dragon." This... more
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      EgyptologyAssyriologyRhetorical CriticismIntertextuality
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      Discourse AnalysisAssyriologyAnatolian StudiesAncient Indo-European Languages
A survey of the iconography and lexicography of music and musical instruments in the ancient city of Ebla.
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      MusicologyAssyriologyEblaMesopotamian Lexical Texts
Available as PDF or plain TXT: computer−generated list of all regular sexagesimal numbers with up to 30 digits in Babylonian floating notation.
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      Number TheoryHistory Of ComputingAssyriologyHistory of Mathematics
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      AssyriologyGenderHistory of ReligionsGilgamesh Epic
Establishing the correct reading of a hitherto misunderstood inscription, (re-)published in A. George, Mesopotamian Incantations and Related Texts in the Schøyen Collection (CUSAS 32; Bethesda 2016). The carnelian gemstone bearing the... more
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      AssyriologyMagicCuneiformAmulets