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Impressions of the Contest Scene: Glyptic Imagery and Sealing Practice in the Akkadian Period
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The Akkadian Period: Empire, Environment, and Imagination [PDF]
, 2012 Augusta Mcmahon
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The Early Dynastic-Akkadian transition, Part 1. When did the Akkadian period begin?
Iraq, 1997We may want to recognise an “Akkadian period” in archaeology for two reasons. A sequence of periods is used as a system of chronological reference, and the Akkadian period conventionally represents the time from 2334–2154 BC (Walker 1995, 234). Periods are also used to define fields of analysis in which studies of social structure or other synchronic ...
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The Bronze Head of the Akkadian Period from Nineveh
Iraq, 1936The life-size bronze head illustrated on Plates V–VII was found by Dr. R. Campbell Thompson and Mr. R. W. Hamilton at Quyunjiq in 1931 (during the excavations at Nineveh on behalf of the British Museum which were financed by Sir Charles Hyde, Bt.) and published in A.A.A., vol. XIX, pl. L.
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Iraq, 1993
Studies of the materials of cylinder seals (Sax, 1986, 1991b, and in preparation a, b, c) from Western Asia throughout the 3000 years or so of their production (c. 3500 B.C. to c. 400 B.c.) have shown that there was a chronological evolution in material usage.
M. Sax, D. Collon, M. N. Leese
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Studies of the materials of cylinder seals (Sax, 1986, 1991b, and in preparation a, b, c) from Western Asia throughout the 3000 years or so of their production (c. 3500 B.C. to c. 400 B.c.) have shown that there was a chronological evolution in material usage.
M. Sax, D. Collon, M. N. Leese
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The Use of Silver in Mesopotamian Texts from Archaic to Old-Akkadian Periods
Rivista di storia economica, 2009The first findings of silver objects in Mesopotamia date to the late Uruk period (toward the end of the fourth millennium BCE). Proto-cuneiform tablets witness the early presence and activity of metal workers and goldsmiths in the Uruk IV/III periods.
Monaco Salvatore, Pomponio Francesco
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2008
Our understanding of these mechanisms, though only fragmentary, does seem to me to have real implications for the study of human psychology. By pursuing the kinds of research that now seem feasible and by focus- ing attention on certain problems that are now accessible to study, we may be able to spell out in some detail the elaborate and abstract ...
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Our understanding of these mechanisms, though only fragmentary, does seem to me to have real implications for the study of human psychology. By pursuing the kinds of research that now seem feasible and by focus- ing attention on certain problems that are now accessible to study, we may be able to spell out in some detail the elaborate and abstract ...
RAMAZZOTTI, Marco +2 more
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