Gatekeepers and lock masters: the control of access in the Neo-Assyrian palaces [PDF]
Book description: This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase, ‘Your praise is sweet’ is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literature. The scope
Radner, K
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Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198-1196 BC. [PDF]
Manning SW +3 more
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From bridewealth to dowry? A Bayesian estimation of ancestral states of marriage transfers in Indo-European groups [PDF]
Significant amounts of wealth have been exchanged as part of marriage settlements throughout history. Although various models have been proposed for interpreting these practices, their development over time has not been investigated systematically.
Fortunato, L, Holden, C, Mace, R
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The spread of the Indo-Europeans [PDF]
The publication of Mallory’s book (1989) has rendered much of what I had to say in the present contribution superfluous. The author presents a carefully argued and very well written account of a balanced view on almost every aspect of the problem ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Tularemia seroprevalence in humans in the region of the Hittite-Arzawa War (Inner Aegean Region), where the first biological weapon was used 3300 years ago. [PDF]
Davarcı İ +4 more
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Towards a typology of stop assibilation [PDF]
In this article we propose that there are two universal properties for phonological stop assibilations, namely (i) assibilations cannot be triggered by /i/ unless they are also triggered by /j/, and (ii) voiced stops cannot undergo assibilations unless ...
Hall, Tracy Alan, Hamann, Silke
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A Provincial Centre on the western border of Urartu: Palu Fortress
Palu Kalesi is a fortress site situated in modern Elazığ province. In the Middle Iron Age, this region was the western borderland of the Urartian Kingdom and the primary contact zone where political and cultural relations transpired between the Urartu ...
Harun Danışmaz
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Los hititas en Anatolia septentrional durante la primera mitad del s. XIII a.C. (II). La organización político-administrativa de una región conflictiva del reino de Hatti [PDF]
Hattusili III, Great King of Hatti in the middle of the thirteenth century B.C., took an active part in the Hittite imperial organization. In particular, this monarch attempted to organize a complex and sophisticated system of territorial administration ...
González Salazar, Juan Manuel
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Los Hititas en Anatolia septentrional durante la primera mitad del S. XIII A.C. panorámica geopolítica de un conflicto armado [PDF]
Hatti played a dominant role in the XIIIth century B.C. and exerted his authority in the Anatolian homeland and the whole of northern Syria. However, the gasgean threat in the northern border of the Hittite Kingdom acquired serious proportions.
González Salazar, Juan Manuel
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