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On the word timmu in Ashurbanipal’s account of the sacking of Thebes by his army
Orientalia SuecanaThe Akkadian (but originally Sumerian) word timmu features prominently in the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal’s (668–631) account of his army’s sacking of the south-Egyptian city of Thebes. Two tall, heavy, and adorned timmu are said to have been seized from
Mattias Karlsson
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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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Akkadian list of seeds, tablet concordance KUB XXXVII 122 - CTH 815 [PDF]
, 2015 Transcription of the tablet concordance KUB XXXVII 122 (inventory no. 299/c) related to the Akkadian list of seeds. Emmanuel Laroche translated this text as "Liste de semences,” and classified in the category of Sumero-Akkadian literature in diverse ...
Gonnet-Bağana, Hatice
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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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Quantifying basic colors' salience from cross‐linguistic corpora
Color Research &Application, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 34-50, January/February 2024.From the Basic Color Terms Hierarchy of Berlin and Kay to our proposal based on corpus data from 57 Languages. Abstract A corpus‐based quantitative assessment of Berlin and Kay's proposal is presented. We refine the Basic Color Terms hierarchy proposed by Berlin and Kay, through the concept of salience.
Antoni Brosa‐Rodríguez +1 more
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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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Akkadian magic and exorcism of ana pisirti kaspi, tablet concordance KUB XXXVII 45 - CTH 804 [PDF]
, 2015 Transcription of the tablet concordance KUB XXXVII 45 (inventory no. 614/b (+)409/c) related to the Akkadian magic and exorcism of ana pisirti kaspi.
Gonnet-Bağana, Hatice
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