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A Full Morphosyntactic Annotation of the State Archives of Assyria Letter Corpus

Journal of Open Humanities Data
The dataset consists of a full morphosyntactic annotation of the normalized letter corpus of the State Archives of Assyria online (SAAo), plus associated metadata regarding sender, recipient, estimated date of composition, script, and dialect of Akkadian
Matthew Ong
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A Century of Drought Research (1900–2023): Scientific Developments, Methodological Innovations, and Emerging Frontiers

Water Resources Research, Volume 62, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Drought significantly affects water resources, agriculture, energy, and ecosystems, revealing enduring socio‐economic vulnerabilities over the centuries. This review synthesizes a century of development and recent advances in drought research (1900–2023), drawing on a bibliometric analysis of over 152,000 peer‐reviewed publications. The review
Amitesh Sabut, Ashok Mishra
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The Sumerian verb kušur, “to repair” [PDF]

, 2017
The article discusses a Sumerian verb, kušur, which can be interpreted as an Akkadian loanword and be related to the root *kšr attested in the verb kašāru/kuššuru, meaning “to repair (ruined or damaged walls, building, ...)”
Spada, Gabriella
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Introduction: Music, Social Identity, Political Cohesion [PDF]

, 2019
Zwischen dem 5. und 1. Jhdt. v. Chr. betrachteten politische Theoretiker in China und Europa Musik als nützlichen Maßstab für den politischen Charakter und Zustand von Gesellschaften und ihren Machthabern.
Eichmann, Ricardo, Howell, Mark, Lawson, Graeme   +2 more
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The Semantics of Purity in the Ancient Near East: Lexical Meaning as a Projection of Embodied Experience [PDF]

, 2014
This article analyzes the primary terms for purity in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite. Building on insights from cognitive linguistics and embodiment theory, this study develops the premise that semantic structure – even of ...
Yitzhaq Feder
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The grammaticalization of manner expressions into complementizers: insights from Semitic languages

Linguistics
Complementation strategies in both ancient and modern Semitic languages include the use of a series of cognate complementizers typically sharing a k-element: e.g., Tigrinya käm, Modern Hebrew ki, Akkadian kī(ma) or Ge’ez kama.
Hernáiz Rodrigo
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Between Archaeology and Text: The Origins of Rice Consumption and Cultivation in the Middle East and the Mediterranean [PDF]

, 2014
Asiatic Rice Oryza sativa L. (Poaceae) is a domesticated grain crop native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, which presently ranks among the most important grains in a global diet.
Muthukumaran, S
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How to Write a Hymn: Material Features in Manuscripts of Akkadian Poetry

Kaskal
This paper investigates the materiality of cuneiform tablets, with a focus on paratexts in manuscripts of Akkadian literary texts, especially hymns and prayers.
Rozzi, Geraldina
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Radiocarbon‐Inferred Population Trajectories for Southeastern Arabia During the Bronze Age

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 24-38, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper builds on previous attempts to estimate radiocarbon‐inferred population trends—although in Arabia, these attempts are few. A probabilistic reconstruction of Bronze Age (3200–1300 cal BC) demographic trends using a new data set of radiocarbon rates from across the Arabian Peninsula (n = 1280) is presented and a subset of dates (n ...
James R. P. McDonald
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A Northwest Semitic Curse Formula: The Sefire Treaty and Deuteronomy 28

, 2016
While a great deal of scholarly investigation has focused on parallels between biblical curses and imprecations found in Neo-Assyrian Treaties, the curses in the Aramaic treaty of Sefire have garnered relatively less attention.¹ In recent years there has
Ramos, Melissa
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