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Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts
, 2019 This article introduces a corpus of cuneiform texts from which the dataset for the use of the Cuneiform Language Identification (CLI) 2019 shared task was derived as well as some preliminary language identification experiments conducted using that corpus.
Alstola, Tero +3 more
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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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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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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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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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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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Hittite Scribal Schools Outside of Hattusa? [PDF]
, 2011 The article investigates the meagre textual evidence for Hittite scribal schools outside of Hattusa against the background of new excavations and the questions they raise about the social context of Hittite cuneiform writing. The use of the term é.dub.ba(
Weeden, Mark
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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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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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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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