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Accounting And Forms Of Accountability In Ancient Civilizations: Mesopotamia And Ancient Egypt [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to identify the relevance and implications of ancient accounting practices to the contemporary theorizing of accounting. The paper provides a synthesis of the literature on ancient accounting particularly in relation to issues of
SALVADOR CARMONA
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The material origin of numbers: Insights from the archaeology of the Ancient Near East [PDF]
, 2019 What are numbers, and where do they come from? A novel answer to these timeless questions is proposed by cognitive archaeologist Karenleigh A. Overmann, based on her groundbreaking study of material devices used for counting in the Ancient Near East ...
Overmann, Karenleigh Anne
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Kirves Nergali jaoks. Täheldusi sumerite ja akkadlaste allilmakujutlustest [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2012 The current short Sumerian literary text, which was written in Old Babylonian time and which consists of only 16 lines, is a dedicatory inscription. This text was written on a bronze axe that was dedicated to Nergal, the main Mesopotamian god of the ...
Vladimir Sazonov
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Oráculo y ley : una aproximación a la influencia política de la adivinación en la Antigüedad
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2010 Las prácticas adivinatorias han desempeñado un importante papel en diversas culturas del mundo antiguo, desde Egipto y Mesopotamia hasta el final del paganismo clásico, cuando fueron paulatinamente sustituidas por el recurso a la nueva legitimación ...
David Hernández de la Fuente
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Cultural foundations of the concept of straight and undulating line in art
АрхитектонThe concept of two types of lines in plastic arts is discussed. The word ‘concept’ is analyzed, and a definition of the concept of line in art is proposed.
Osmankina Galina Yu.
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El arte de la curación en la antigua Mesopotamia
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2010 En este artículo mostramos una panorámica de las prácticas médicas llevadas a cabo en la Antigua Mesopotamia, durante los períodos sumerio, paleobabilónico y asirio.In this paper we will discuss the healing practices carried out in the Ancient ...
Piedad Yuste
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Readings in Western Religious Thought: The Ancient World [PDF]
, 1988 Reviewed Book: Reid, Patrick V. Readings in Western Religious Thought: The Ancient World.
Remus, Harold
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Chaldean and Neo-Platonic Theology [PDF]
, 2016 In the present paper, the meanings the term “Chaldeans” acquired during the Antiquity and the early Middle Ages are presented, but mainly the role the Chaldean Oracles played inside the movement of Neo-Platonism is emphasized. The stratification of Being
Viglas, Katelis
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background For millennia, the southern part of the Mesopotamia has been a wetland region generated by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before flowing into the Gulf.
Olivieri Anna +9 more
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“Ho paura di essere consegnata in dono!” Aspetti della schiavitù femminile nell’antica Mesopotamia
Storia delle Donne, 2010 Freedom in Ancient Near East was a relative, not an absolute state, as the ambiguity of the term for “slave” in all the region’s languages illustrates.
Maria Vittoria Tonietti
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