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Metaphors and the Invention of Writing. [PDF]

Top Cogn Sci
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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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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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, Aditi Agarwal, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Jacobo Myerston   +3 more
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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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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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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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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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