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Revisiting the ‘kriegerischer Gott’ of the Akkadian Period
Religions, 2023 Boehmer’s Die Entwicklung der Glyptik während der Akkad-Zeit (1965), although nearly 60 years old, is still the major work on the cylinder seals of the Akkadian Period (2334–2150 BCE).
Renate Marian Van Dijk-Coombes
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Mesopotamian and Indian Bird Omens
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2022 This paper explores the relationship between bird omens that occur in both the Sanskrit Gārgīyajyotiṣa Aṅga 42 and the Akkadian Šumma Ālu and related Cuneiform tablets.
Kenneth Zysk
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Old Elamite Partnership Contracts [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2014 There are few documents written in Elamite language from the Old Elamite Period. Nevertheless, there are some 600 hundred legal documents from Susa of the Sukkalmah Period that provide us with direct evidence of Old Elamite social, economic and legal ...
حسین بادامچی
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Ancient Cylinder Seals from Upper Mesopotamia
Anadolu Araştırmaları, 2023 This study examines 14-cylinder seals from the Diyarbakır Archeology Museum. Unfortunately, the museum inventory does not provide any information about their definition, period, or the culture they belong to.
Çağatay Yücel, Umut Parlıtı
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Constructing Identities: Greek Names as a Marker of Hellenizing Identity
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2023 Even as Babylonia came under foreign rule, cuneiform documentation continued to record traditional activities. In the transition to the Hellenistic period, it is assumed that Greek practices became more prevalent, although documentary evidence for them ...
Laurie E. Pearce, Paola Corò
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Logical Reasoning for Forecasting in Mesopotamia
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2021 In this paper, I show that a kind of perfect logical competence is observed in the Babylonian tablets used for forecasting. In these documents, we see an intuition of some algebraic structures that are used for inferring prognoses as logical conclusions.
Schumann Andrew
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Kuningavõim ja kuninglik templipoliitika Sumeris ja Akkadis 2500–2154 eKr [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2015 In this article, the author has raised a few questions concerned with the relations of rulers and temples: temple politics of the rulers of the Late Presargonic period (the Early Dynastic III, ca. 2500–2335 BCE) and the Sargonic period (2334–2154 BCE) in
Vladimir Sazonov
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Some Remarks on Language Usage in Late Babylonian Letters
Open Linguistics, 2017 This paper deals with language usage in private and institutional letters from the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods. It analyses the usage of terms of address, greeting formulae and direct and indirect phrasing, drawing on notions of politeness ...
Schmidl Martina
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Mõningad märkused nelja ilmakaare kuninga ja jumal-kuninga kontseptsiooni kohta Sumeris ja Akkadis 3. at eKr [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2020 This article is dedicated to the issues related to the King of the Four Corners and the God-King in ancient Sumer and Akkad in the 3rd millennium BCE. The author shows that the title King of the Four Corners has always deified the ruler, but the ruler ...
Vladimir Sazonov
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CuneiML: A Cuneiform Dataset for Machine Learning
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2023 The cuneiform writing system holds a vast reservoir of ancient literature, encompassing over 3000 years of history. Originating around the mid-fourth millennium BCE and enduring until the late first millennium BCE, cuneiform writing spans various genres ...
Danlu Chen +3 more
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