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Provincial Administration in Babylonia: A Case of Kassite Nippur [PDF]

open access: yesBAF-Online: Proceedings of the Berner Altorientalisches Forum, 2017
The talk gives an overview of the system of provincial administration in Babylonia during the rule of the Kassite dynasty (ca. 1531-1155 BC). Since about 90% of all written sources from this period (almost 12000 cuneiform tablets) come from a single location – the city of Nippur, the religious center of the country – this study is based for the most ...
Redina-Thomas, Marina
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THE NEW KINGDOM OF EGYPT AND THE EARLY STATE ORGANIZATIONS OF THE ARMENIAN HIGHLAND IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE II MILLENNIUM BC(BASED ON HISTORICAL SOURCES AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE) [PDF]

open access: yesBanber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti, 2021
The Ancient Near Eastern powerful states in the mid II millennium BC were not only directing and supervising the military-political, trading-economic, and sociocultural processes, but were also trying to obtain their dominance and control in the region ...
ASHOT PILIPOSYAN , ARMINE HAYRAPETYAN
doaj   +1 more source

Tell Khaiber: An administrative centre of the Sealand period [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Excavations at Tell Khaiber in southern Iraq by the Ur Region Archaeological Project have revealed a substantial building (hereafter the Public Building) dating to the mid-second millennium b.c.
Calderbank, Daniel   +6 more
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Of highland-lowland borderlands: local societies and foreign power in the Zagros-Mesopotamian interface [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Narratives of civilization are spun from the juxtaposition of a civilized self with that of a barbarous other. Such an opposition is never more easily constructed than from the distinctiveness of lowland and mountain topographies, environments, and life ...
Casana, Jesse, Glatz, Claudia
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Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age, by Y. Cohen [author] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca.
Cohen, Yoram
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Knocking on Wood: Writing Boards in the Kassite Administration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This article explores the emerging role of wooden wax-covered writing boards in Kassite administration, as indicated by their mentions in three letters and one cattle account from Kassite period Nippur.
Zimmermann, Lynn-Salammbô
core   +1 more source

Märkusi Kesk-Assüüria impeeriumi propagandast: vallutussõdade peegeldus Tukultī-Ninurta I kuninglikus titulatuuris [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused
As we can see, Tukultī-Ninurta’s ambitious imperialist policies and expansionism were expressed in his propaganda and ideological-political manifestation and programme, one part of which can be considered the official titles and epithets of the Assyrian ...
Vladimir Sazonov
doaj   +1 more source

Adapting to New Contexts. Cuneiform in Anatolia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article focuses on cuneiform and scribal education in Anatolia. It attempts to trace some of the developments in the corpus of knowledge and training when it let the confines of its initial area of relevance and was received in Anatolia by the ...
Weeden, Mark
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A Middle Assyrian Fragment Mentioning Iron from Kassite Nippur [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In this study, a fragment from the Hilprecht Collection in Jena will be discussed. The tablet was previously identified as Middle Babylonian and published as TMH NF 5, 59. Closer inspection reveals Middle Assyrian palaeography.
Ridder, Jacob Jan de   +1 more
core   +1 more source

The New Kingdom of Egypt and the Early State Organizations of the Armenian Highland in the Second Half of the II Millennium Bc (Based on Historical Sources and Archaeological Evidence)

open access: yesBanber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti
The Ancient Near Eastern powerful states in the mid II millennium BC were not only directing and supervising the military-political, trading-economic, and sociocultural processes, but were also trying to obtain their dominance and control in the region.
Ashot Piliposyan, Armine Hayrapetyan
doaj   +6 more sources

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