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Ancient and historical cooking pots and food: an eternal communion. A topical review
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 219-234, February 2025.Abstract This contribution provides a topical view at and review of traditional clay‐based utilitarian cooking pots that were used for millennia to prepare, serve, display, and distribute foodstuff. Key mechanical and thermal properties of ceramic cooking vessels will be discussed and strategies of property optimization outlined.
Robert B. Heimann
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Opuscula Ugaritico-Accadico-Hebraica: Relative Particles, pa'am, and Amraphel
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2020 The article deals with two questions concerning the relationship between Hebrew, Akkadian, and Ugaritic: the background of the relative particle šeC-/šaC- and the relationship between Hebrew pa'am ("time, foot") and Ugaritic pamt ("time") and p'n ("foot,
Ola Wikander
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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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