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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Civilization is studied through the analysis of Early Dynastic III Period (2600–2350 BCE) carnelian beads from the site of Kish, Iraq. Morphological and technological features of the beads are compared with beads from the Indus region.
J. Mark Kenoyer +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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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi +3 more
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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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A Full Morphosyntactic Annotation of the State Archives of Assyria Letter Corpus
Journal of Open Humanities DataThe 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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The grammaticalization of manner expressions into complementizers: insights from Semitic languages
LinguisticsComplementation 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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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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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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How to Write a Hymn: Material Features in Manuscripts of Akkadian Poetry
KaskalThis 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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Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2020 The Hebrew word ᵓĕlīlîm is usually explained as the plural of the Hebrew adjective ᵓĕlīl (“useless, vain”), hence a dysphemism describing idols. However, the ancient versions did not understand the word this way.
Mark W. Hamilton
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