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How Many Lives for a Mesopotamian Statue?
ArtsAmong the indicators of the value and power ascribed to statues in Mesopotamia, reuse is a particularly significant one. By studying some of the best-documented examples of the usurpation and reassignment of a new function to sculptures in the round from
Imane Achouche
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A Large-Scale Dataset of Annotated Cuneiform Sign Images for Digital Palaeography
Journal of Open Humanities DataThis paper presents a large-scale dataset of 158,946 annotated cuneiform sign crops extracted from 9,276 clay tablets and other objects spanning over three millennia of Mesopotamian history (ca. 2800 BCE–75 CE).
Or Lewenstein +11 more
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Quelle place occupent les femmes dans les sources cunéiformes de la pratique ?
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2015 There has been a growing interest in Assyriology for the history of women and gender these last twenty years. The most recent works are devoted to a comparative study on the implications of women and men in Mesopotamian society and economic activities ...
Cécile Michel
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The Legacy of Benjamin Franklin in the Biblical Studies Classroom in the United States
Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 78-80, July 2025.ABSTRACT Across many secular American research universities, biblical studies is taught largely from an historical–critical perspective. This article traces this approach back to some very specific stipulations for the study of the Bible made by Benjamin Franklin when he founded the University of Pennsylvania in the 18th century.
Liane Feldman
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Imperial Art: Duality on Tanwetamani’s Dream Stela
ArtsIn 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
Journal 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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Discussions in Assyriology [PDF]
DABIR, 2022 Widell, Magnus, Daneshmand, Parsa
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The ideology of Assyria: The historiography of the problem
Ученые 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
Yod, 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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Journal of Open Humanities DataProsobab 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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