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The Annals and Lost Golden Statue of the Hittite King Hattusili I

Gephyra, 2018
Clay tablets excavated from the Hittite capital Hattusa supposedly record five years of the military exploits of the early Hittite king Hattusili I (c. 1650-1620).
Trevor R. Bryce
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Akkadian

, 2019
Book chapter in Semitic Languages, edited by R. Hetzron, 69–99. London: Routledge.
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The Translation of the Hebrew Term Nir: 'David's Yoke?'

Tyndale Bulletin, 2016
The purpose of this article is to query the viability of Douglas K. Stuart’s recent suggestion that the Hebrew form nīr ‘lamp’ should be translated as etymologically related to the Akkadian nīru ‘yoke, domination’ on the basis of Paul D.
Deuk-il Shin
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Writing Sumerian, Creating Texts: Reflections on Text-building Practices in Old Babylonian Schools [PDF]

, 2015
Sumerian lexical and literary compositions both emerged from the same social sphere, namely scribal education. The complexities of inter-compositional dependence in these two corpora have not been thoroughly explored, particularly as relevant to ...
Jay Crisostomo
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Religious Poetry and Musical Performance under King Hammurāpi of Babylon and His Successors [PDF]

, 2019
Mit Beginn des 2. Jt. v. Chr. erlebt Mesopotamien einen historischen Wandel auf politischer, sozialer und religiöser Ebene. Aus dem Westen einwandernde so genannte amurritische Dynastien übernehmen die politische Macht in Zentralbabylonien, wo sie ihr ...
Shehata, Dahlia
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Remarks on the Iconographic Motif of the Birdman in Mesopotamian Glyptic Art of the Third Millennium BC

Études et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2018
The iconographic motif of the birdman emerged in Mesopotamian glyptic art in the Early Dynastic period and disappeared at the end of the Akkadian period.
Dominika Majchrzak
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Encore des percussions : observations sur /tigi/ et /adab/

Pallas, 2021
Due to the difficulties for matching iconographic and textual evidence, study of percussion instruments in ancient Mesopotamia according to the Sumero-Akkadian terminology is still a controversial matter. That is the case of the Sumerian words /tigi/ and
Daniel Sánchez Muñoz
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Loanwords in the Language of Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry

Orientalia Suecana
The research confirms the highly conservative character of the language of archaic poetry, regarding the influence of Akkadian. The impact of Akkadian on the language of these poems is very slight.
Tania Notarius
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Babylonian Physiognomic Omens in Cryptic Hebrew Orthography

Aestimatio
: A unique text of physiognomic omens in Hebrew from the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q186) is remarkable in that it mimics the similar Akkadian omens upon which it is based, in that it is written in a left-to-right format beginning with the column on the left ...
M. J. Geller
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Kéntros, another Term of Mesopotamian Origin in the Ethiopian Astronomy

Aethiopica, 2013
The Ethiopic term kentros “1/30” goes back to Akkadian mišlu through a lost meaning of the Greek astronomical term κέντρον.
Basil Lourié
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