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The Book of Genesis and other allegorical origin stories of games
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 1, Page 1-18, February 2025.Abstract This essay delves into the complex interplay between the sacred and the ludic, with a particular emphasis on allegorical origin stories from various religious and mythological traditions, highlighting their portrayal of games and the concept of play. The analysis includes the Judaeo‐Christian Book of Genesis and the Babylonian Enuma Elish.
Bo Kampmann Walther
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A FAIENCE HEAD OF A BEARDED MALE FROM TEL ABEL BETH MAACAH: ICONOGRAPHY, TECHNOLOGY AND CONTEXT
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 373-398, November 2024.Summary A faience head depicting a bearded male was unearthed in a ninth‐century BC context at Tel Abel Beth Maacah, located on the modern Israel‐Lebanese border. During the Iron Age, the site was at the interface between the kingdoms of Israel and Aram‐Damascus and the Phoenician city‐states of Tyre and Sidon.
N. Yahalom‐Mack +5 more
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 268-299, May/June 2024.Abstract The last two decades witnessed increasing scholarly interest in the history of water management in southern Mesopotamia. Thanks to many geoarchaeological research projects conducted throughout the central and southern Iraqi floodplains, a general understanding of the macrophases of anthropogenic manipulation of this vast hydraulic landscape ...
Simone Mantellini +4 more
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Soldiers and Prisoners in Motion in Mesopotamian Iconography during the Early Bronze Age
ArtsMilitary images of the ancient Near East during the Early Bronze Age are characterized by one of their main features: the serial reproduction of soldiers and prisoners, side by side, the former clearly identifiable by the visual signs of power they bear ...
Barbara Couturaud
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Naming the gods: traditional verse-making in Homer and Old Babylonian Akkadian poetry
Manuscript and Text CulturesThis is an investigation of character-naming expressions in early Greek (ca. eighth–sixth c. BC) and Old Babylonian Akkadian narrative poetry (ca. nineteenth–seventeenth c. BC).
Bernardo Ballesteros
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Parsing Akkadian verbs with prolog [PDF]
Proceedings of the ACL-02 workshop on Computational approaches to semitic languages -, 2002 This paper describes a parsing/generation system for finite verbal forms in Akkadian, with the possible addition of suffixes, implemented in Prolog. The work described provides the framework and engine to interpret the D, N, and G stems along with accusative, dative and ventive endings.
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Der Vergleich des Geliebten mit einem Wolf im Akkadischen und Ägyptischen
Folia OrientaliaIn this contribution, a further parallel between the Akkadian and Egyptian literature is highlighted. The comparison between the lover and a wolf will be of crucial importance.
Stefan Bojowald
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Dämonen als „Krankheitserreger“ in den sumerisch-akkadischen Beschwörungen des Muššu᾿u-Handbuches
Historia.scribere, 2019 This paper discusses the ancient Mesopotamian phenomenon of demons as „pathogens“, taking for example the so-called Muššu᾿u manual, which contains Sumerian as well as Akkadian incantations.
Manuela Perl
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An Akkadian Text about Metrics and Sizes
Dirāsāt fī al-tārīẖ wa-al-āṯār, 2020 Among the many confiscated cuneiform tablets in the Iraqi Museum from unknown provenance, the tablet IM. 204709 has been selected for this study. The reason for selecting this tablet is its rare subject matter on providing numerical data for the digging
د. نشاة علي عمران
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الهدايا ودورها في الفكر السومري والأكادي والبابلي القديم (دراسة في ضوء النصوص الملكية والدينية والأدبية والتشريعية) The Role of Gifts in Ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian Thought: A Study in Light of Royal, Religious, Literary, and Legislative Texts [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Qiṭāʿ Al-Dirāsāt Al-Insāniyyaẗتتناول هذه الدراسة الهدايا ودورها في الفكر السومري والأكادي والبابلي القديم؛ فقد كان للهدايا دورٌ كبيرٌ في الفكر السياسي والديني والأدبي السومري والأكادي والبابلي؛ حيث استخدمها الملوك في الدعاية السياسية ذات الخلفية الدينية لملكهم، وذلك لإحكام قبضتهم على
إبراهيم محمد أحمد عمر
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