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Imperial Art: Duality on Tanwetamani’s Dream Stela

open access: yesArts
In the 7th century BCE, the Kushite king Tanwetamani commissioned his “Dream Stela”, which was to be erected in the Amun Temple of Jebel Barkal. The lunette of the stela features a dualistic artistic motif whose composition, meaning, and significance are
Christopher Cox
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Material Profiling of Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals by Raman Spectroscopy

open access: yesJournal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 228-242, March 2025.
Mesopotamian cylinder seals (fourth ‐ first millennium bce) from the collection of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg were non‐destructively studied by Raman spectroscopy were non‐destructively studied by Raman spectroscopy. The Raman spectral analysis identified the mineral constituents and quantitatively determined the chemical compositions of the
Stylianos Aspiotis   +5 more
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The ideology of Assyria: The historiography of the problem

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2017
This paper considers the problem of Assyriology development in the context of the general evolution of research on history. Assyriology has undergone the following several stages in its development: 1) middle 19th century – 1920s: collection, translation,
S.B. Krikh, A.A. Popova
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L’écriture de l’histoire de l’Orient ancien

open access: yesYod, 2013
After introducing to the evolution of the oriental studies during the 19th century, the author presents the principles of the comparative method initiated by the Annales School.
Jean-Jacques Glassner
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Social Networks of Prosobab

open access: yesJournal of Open Humanities Data
Prosobab is an open access, online prosopography of Babylonia (c. 620–330 BCE) with information on some 21,000 persons attested in 5000 cuneiform tablets. We have extracted all the Prosobab data from a database dump and converted it into two formats that
Heidi Jauhiainen, Tero Alstola
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Réflexions éthiques relatives à l’étude du Proche-Orient antique

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics, 2019
L’assyriologie recouvre les disciplines qui portent sur l’étude du Proche-Orient antique, et plus spécifiquement sur la période et la zone géographique définies par l’usage de l’écriture cunéiforme.
Cécile Michel
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Mõiste giš-hur tähendusest sumeri ja akkadi kirjanduslikes ja rituaaltekstides [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2009
The aim of this article is to interpret the meaning and concept of the word ‘plan’ or ‘drawing’ in Sumerian and Akkadian written sources and to give a brief summary of this phenomenon in Mesopotamia in the 3rd–1st millennium BC. The Sumerian word ĝiš-hur
Liina Ootsing-Lüecke
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The Mainz Cuneiform Benchmark Dataset Series: Sign Annotations of 3D Rendered Tablets

open access: yesJournal of Open Archaeology Data
This paper introduces the Mainz Cuneiform Benchmark Dataset (MaiCuBeDa) and the Mainz Cuneiform Benchmark Dataset for the Haft Tappeh Collection (MaiCuBeDa HT), two datasets of cuneiform sign annotations on renderings of 3D models of cuneiform tablets ...
Timo Homburg   +3 more
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Cuneiform Šumma Sentences: Conditionals or Implications?

open access: yesStudia Humana
For a long time, it was believed in Assyriology and related disciplines that šumma sentences, or grammatical conditionals, which appeared in cuneiform texts and tablets of astrology, exorcism, law, extispicy, oneiromancy, medicine, and divination, were ...
Moubarez Hany
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