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Writing Sumerian, Creating Texts: Reflections on Text-building Practices in Old Babylonian Schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Sumerian lexical and literary compositions both emerged from the same social sphere, namely scribal education. The complexities of inter-compositional dependence in these two corpora have not been thoroughly explored, particularly as relevant to ...
Jay Crisostomo
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New Investigations in the Environment, History and Archaeology of the Iraqi Hilly Flanks: Shahrizor Survey Project 2009-2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Recent palaeoenvironmental, historical, and archaeological investigations, primarily consisting of site reconnaissance, in the Shahrizor region within the province of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan are bringing to light new information on the region’s ...
Adams   +130 more
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Ein Bronzedolch des Simbar-Šipak von Babylon (1025-1008). Überlegungen zu Waffenweihungen im Vorderen Orient [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Ein Bronzedolch, der derzeit in der Schausammlung des Archäologischen Museums von Tabriz (Iran) ausgestellt ist, gehört zu einer prominenten Gruppe innerhalb der sogenannten „Luristanbronzen“, nämlich der der beschrifteten Randgriffdolche.
Kroll, S, Radner, K
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Wooden Wax-Covered Writing Boards as Vorlage for kudurru Inscriptions in the Middle Babylonian Period [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The inscriptions on Middle Babylonian kudurru monuments contain references to a certain type of Vorlage, wooden wax-covered writing boards. The kudurru monuments were erected in temples as (legal) proof of a royal land grant.
Zimmermann, Lynn-Salammbô
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Sngr/Samḫarû/Sanḫara/Šinʿār and the Implications for Early Kassite History

open access: yesKaskal
This is a detailed review (date, context and usage) of the use of the Old Testament toponym Šinʿār = Babylonia and its cognate terms in Akkadian (Samḫarû/Samḫara) in Babylonian and Hittite sources, and Sngr in Egyptian documents.
Clayden, Tim
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Mapping the Linguistic Landscapes of Mesopotamia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Though Ancient Near Eastern Studies has increasingly paidattention to language contact and areal linguistics in recentyears, there have so far been but few systematic attempts atplacing the relevant languages on a map.
Hess, Christian W.
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Kings of Chaldea and Sons of Nobodies: Assyrian Engagement with Chaldea and the Emergence of Chaldean Power in Babylonia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
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.
Nielsen, John
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The delegation of power: Neo-Assyrian bureau seals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Bureau seals are an innovation of the Assyrian administration to cope with the delegation of power that running a world empire demanded. By placing some bureau seals in their historical context we find indications that these seal types were introduced ...
Radner, K
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The Limits of Middle Babylonian Archives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper deals with the archives of the Middle Babylonian Period (1500-1000 BC) giving first an overview of the material, showing the limits of the existing and so far published texts and then trying to reconstruct lost archives with special help of ...
Paulus, Susanne
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Inscribed Kassite Cylinder Seals in the Metropolitan Museum. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Study of inscribed Kassite cylinder seals held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of ...
Gina Konstantopoulos
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