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Radiocarbon‐Inferred Population Trajectories for Southeastern Arabia During the Bronze Age

open access: yesArabian 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
wiley   +1 more source

Akkadian fragments, tablet concordance KUB XXXVII 129 - CTH 819 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Transcription of the tablet concordance KUB XXXVII 129 (inventory no. 678/c) related to the Akkadian fragments. Emmanuel Laroche translated this text as "Fragments,” and classified in the category of Sumero-Akkadian literature in diverse texts (Catalogue
Gonnet-Bağana, Hatice
core  

How to Write a Hymn: Material Features in Manuscripts of Akkadian Poetry

open access: yesKaskal
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
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Flooding of Lagash (Iraq): Evidence for Urban Destruction Under Lugalzagesi, the King of Uruk and Umma

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT High‐resolution remote sensing, magnetometry, and trench stratigraphy identify a significant flood event at Lagash (modern Tell al‐Hiba) during the late Early Dynastic period (ca. 2400–2350 BC). Satellite imagery and magnetometry reveal a 90‐meter‐wide meander belt—3–15 times broader than documented canals—adjacent to primary temple districts.
Reed Goodman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE REDISCOVERY OF ANCIENT AKKADIAN [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Author: Marie Young (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) In the nineteenth century, archaeological excavations uncovered hundreds of thousands of clay tablets written in one of the oldest Semitic languages: Akkadian.
lostscripts
core   +1 more source

The grammaticalization of manner expressions into complementizers: insights from Semitic languages

open access: yesLinguistics
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
doaj   +1 more source

"The Symbolic Meaning for Divinity concept and Landscape Representation in “Victory Stele of Naram-Sin”"

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2018
The current paper presents an artistic analysis based on the visual features for one of the most significant stone memorial Stele of “Naram-Sin” . The Victory Stele was created to commemorate Naram-Sin’s victory over Satuni king of ‘Lullubi’, a nomadic ...
Fayrouz Ibrahim
doaj   +1 more source

BOAT‐SHAPED OBJECTS OF LEAD FROM LATE BRONZE AGE HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS, AND THE ULUBURUN SHIPWRECK

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 228-247, August 2025.
Summary This study examines four exceptional lead boat‐shaped objects recovered from the fourteenth‐century BC Chamber Tomb ZZ at the cemetery of the cosmopolitan city of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus. A closely related lead object was also found in Stratum 1 of City Quarter 4 at Hala Sultan Tekke, dating to the early twelfth century BC.
Peter M. Fischer, Tzveta V. Manolova
wiley   +1 more source

Semi-Automatic Annotation of Babylonian Cuneiform Texts

open access: yesJournal of Open Humanities Data
This article presents the methods and workflow for semi-automatic linguistic annotation of Akkadian cuneiform texts and a Neo-Babylonian corpus created with them.
Tero Alstola   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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