Managing the Harvest in Kassite Babylonia: The Evidence for tēlītu
This study examines the administrative mechanisms for managing agricultural production in Kassite Babylonia, focusing on the term tēlītu, a critical concept in the centralized control of agricultural revenues. Drawing on previously studied texts from Nippur and newly analyzed tablets from the Dūr-Enlilē archive housed in the Rosen Collection at ...
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Summary report on excavations at Tell Khaiber, an administrative centre of the Sealand period, 2013-2017 [PDF]
Excavations at Tell Khaiber by the Ur Region Archaeological Project have revealed a substantial building (hereafter the Public Building) dating to the mid-second millennium BC.
Calderbank, D +4 more
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The article analyses four cuneiform texts from Babylonia during the Kassite Dynasty that have a close relation with adoption. These documents are dated back between the 14th and 12th centuries BC and are quantitatively scarce. Even so, they shed light on this legal matter, which has its own peculiarities with respect to the previous Old Babylonian ...
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Fez, Diadem, Turban, Chaplet: Power-Dressing at the Assyrian court [PDF]
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Reade, Julian
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An Inscribed Kassite Weight from Kermānšāh Province, Western Iran [PDF]
A Babylonian inscription found in western Iran is written in the name of an official of the Kassite king Šagarakti-Šuriaš (1245–1233 B.C.). It provides the first contemporary evidence for the parentage of this king and supplements archival testimony to ...
Alibaigi, Sajjad +3 more
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Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts
This article introduces a corpus of cuneiform texts from which the dataset for the use of the Cuneiform Language Identification (CLI) 2019 shared task was derived as well as some preliminary language identification experiments conducted using that corpus.
Alstola, Tero +3 more
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Los propietarios de los sellos en época Casita: Leyenda-Motivo iconográfico-Color de la piedra ¿Existe un sello típicamente femenino? [PDF]
Aparte de ejemplos de imágenes que presentan sacerdotisas, en general el sexo de los propietarios/as de sellos no puede ser identificado visualmente ni por el diseño, ni el color de la piedra o el tipo de la leyenda, sino principalmente por el ...
Stiehler-Alegría, Gisela
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Kassite letters: communicating orders and networking within the administration of Kassite Babylonia
In this DPhil thesis the language, style, structure, epistolary function and content of 314 Kassite period letters from Nippur, which were available to the author, are analysed. Nippur yielded the largest number of Kassite period letters in comparison with other Kassite period findspots.
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Phytolith evidence for the pastoral origins of multi-cropping in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq). [PDF]
Laugier EJ, Casana J, Cabanes D.
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Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey during the 2nd millennium BC: Integration of isotopic and genomic evidence. [PDF]
Ingman T +16 more
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