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Metaphors and the Invention of Writing. [PDF]

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Abstract The foundation of ancient, invented writing systems lies in the predominant iconicity of their sign shapes. However, these shapes are often used not for their referential meaning but in a metaphorical way, whereby one entity stands for another.
Ottaviano L, Kelley K, Cartolano M, Ferrara S.   +3 more
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Measuring Beyond the Standard: Informal Measurement Systems as Cognitive Technologies. [PDF]

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Abstract This paper explores the role of measurement as a cognitive technology across human history, emphasizing the coexistence of formal and informal measurement systems. While standardized systems dominate contemporary culture and are well documented across large‐scale societies of the past, this manuscript highlights the less explored domain of ...
Kaaronen RO, Manninen MA, Eronen JT.
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The sea in Sumerian literature [PDF]

, 2020
Surveying the references to the sea in Sumerian literature, this paper discusses the general idea that the sea is underrepresented in Mesopotamian cultures of the third millennium BCE.
Lorenzo Verderame
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Spelling, phonology and etymology in Hittite historical linguistics, a review article on Kloekhorst, A. Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden: 2008) [PDF]

, 2011
This review article addresses the representation of glottal stops in Akkadian and Hittite ...
Bürde, Forrer, Gelb, Groddek, Har∂arson, Hasselbach, Hawkins, Hoffner, Hoffner, Hout, Hout, Jucquois, Kimball, Kloekhorst, Kloekhorst, Kouwenberg, Lehrman, Lehrman, Lipin, Mark Weeden, Melchert, Melchert, Melchert, Melchert, Miller, Morpurgo Davies, Neu, Otten, Pedersen, Popko, Popko, Rix, Schwemer, Seminara, Simon, Streck, Weeden, Wilhelm, Wilhelm, Yoshida   +39 more
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Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age, by Y. Cohen [author] [PDF]

, 2013
This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca.
Cohen, Yoram
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Multilingualism and Formulations of Scholarship: The Rosen Vocabulary [PDF]

, 2017
The Rosen Vocabulary is an Old Babylonian bilingual text. Through an edition of this text, I argue that the ad-hoc mixed vocabularies known from the Old Babylonian period feature citations or allusions to literary compositions as well as subsequent ...
Jay Crisostomo
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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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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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Adapting to New Contexts. Cuneiform in Anatolia [PDF]

, 2011
This article focuses on cuneiform and scribal education in Anatolia. It attempts to trace some of the developments in the corpus of knowledge and training when it let the confines of its initial area of relevance and was received in Anatolia by the ...
Weeden, Mark
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An overview of Mesopotamian bronze metallurgy during the 3rd millennium BC [PDF]

, 2005
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ADAMS, F, Adriaens, Mieke, DE RYCK, I
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