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C. F. LEHMANN-HAUPT’S STUDIES ON ASSYRIAN INSCRIPTIONS OF THE ARMENIAN HIGHLAND [PDF]
Prominent German orientalist C. F. Lehmann-Haupt explored the Tigris Tunnel during his travels in the Armenian Highland and Northern Mesopotamia from 1898 to 1899.
VAHE SARGSYAN
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THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF TUKULTĪ-NINURTA’S I (1242-1206 BC) [PDF]
The chronology of events during the reign of Tukultī-Ninurta I does not stand out with particular accuracy, which often sparked controversy. In particular, it refers to the irregular sequence of events in the king's records.
Ruslan
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Kashtaritu"; His place in the history of Medes and his ethnicity [PDF]
Even though Kashtaritu or Kashtariti was not an urban ruler, but he gained such power during the time of Esarhaddon (669-680 BC) that Assyria and other lands were afraid of this issue.
Sorena Firouzi +2 more
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The palace ceremonial "proskynesis" (gr. – προσκύνησις) – which consisted of a kiss and a bow – was considered and interpreted. A comparison of ancient Eastern traditions at the royal court of Assyrian and Achaemenid rulers is highlighted.
Baulina K.
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A Social Network of the 'Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire'
The dataset is a social network of over 17,000 individuals who lived during the so-called Neo-Assyrian period of Mesopotamian history, primarily in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. The undirected network of individuals connected by co-occurrences in
Heidi Jauhiainen, Tero Alstola
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From the ninth century until the last quarter of the seventh century BCE, the Assyrian Empire first extended its power over Babylonia and then engaged in a prolonged effort to retain control.
John Nielsen
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From Dilmun to Wādī al‐Fāw: A forgotten desert corridor, c. 2000 BC
Abstract There is a lacuna of knowledge on the inland trade routes across Bronze Age central Arabia, which this article seeks to fill based on new evidence from Wādī al‐Fāw, Saudi Arabia. Contrary to a common belief that interior Southeast Arabia after the Holocene Humid Phase and until the domestication of the dromedary had turned desolate Badlands ...
Steffen Terp Laursen, Faleh al‐Otaibi
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The most remarkable feature of the Hammelburg Mahzor, a fourteenth‐century German High Holiday book, is the inclusion of zoocephalic figures: humans with beastly heads. The purpose of this essay is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this specifically Jewish visual idiom, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language ...
Elina Gertsman
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ON SOME FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICY ISSUES OF MIDDLE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE [PDF]
The article focused on the issues of the conquest of Assyria by the Kingdom of Mittani, and expressed an opinion that Mittanian supremacy over the Aššur was not long-lasting.
Ruslan Tsakanyan
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Evidence, hints and assumptions for late pregnancy in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Abstract Ancient women, who survived childhood mortality, received good and adequate nutrition, did not work hard and escaped death during childbirth could live fairly long lives. Girls started procreation after marriage, usually at 15 years, had on average seven children, childbearing lasted 14–21 or more years and could happen at the age of 35 or ...
Ariadne Malamitsi‐Puchner +1 more
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