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A FAIENCE HEAD OF A BEARDED MALE FROM TEL ABEL BETH MAACAH: ICONOGRAPHY, TECHNOLOGY AND CONTEXT
Summary A faience head depicting a bearded male was unearthed in a ninth‐century BC context at Tel Abel Beth Maacah, located on the modern Israel‐Lebanese border. During the Iron Age, the site was at the interface between the kingdoms of Israel and Aram‐Damascus and the Phoenician city‐states of Tyre and Sidon.
N. Yahalom‐Mack +5 more
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A Unique Shrine From the Late Iron Age in Jordan
In October and November of 2014 an archaeological team lead by Lucas Petit of the University of Leiden and Zeidan Kafafi of Yarmouk University uncovered a 2,700-year-old shrine at Tell Damiyah in Jordan.
Jaimee Uhlenbrock
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Abstract Subduction initiation in oceans is key to understanding regional and global plate tectonics and ocean basin dynamics; however, its genetic mechanism is still enigmatic. The most famous model that predicts intraoceanic subduction initiation along transform faults or fracture zones (i.e., the Subduction Initiation Rule) has been widely used to ...
Tong Liu +6 more
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Deuteronomy 28 and Tell Tayinat
The discovery of Esarhaddon s Succession Treaty (EST) at Tell Tayinat confirms the Assyrian application of this text on western vassals and suggests that the oath tablet was given to Manasseh of Judah in 672 BC, the year in which the king of Assyria had ...
Hans U. Steymans
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Abstract Excavations at Ashdod‐Yam exposed a fortification system that features a massive mudbrick wall with large earthen ramparts laid on either side. This fortified horseshoe‐shaped enclosure once surrounded what was likely a human‐made harbor and an adjacent acropolis with complex earthen architecture, constructed and active during Iron Age IIB–C ...
Marta Lorenzon +3 more
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Hired Labor in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
For the understanding of any society it is vital to have a grasp of the key principles of its economic basis. Yet for the Neo-Assyrian Empire our knowledge can only be described as marginal in this respect, unlike for the Neo-Babylonian Empire where the field of economic history has always been popular; at the root of this lies of course the fact that ...
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Bathing Rooms in First-Millennium Assyria
This article presents a review of the archaeological evidence relating to those spaces identified as bathrooms in the main Neo-Assyrian palaces. An examination of the primary elements – fixed features, interior decoration, position within the palace ...
Portuese, Ludovico
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The City “Amēdi” in Neo-Assyrian Texts
From the begining of the first milennium BC I. Aramean which had begun to establish principalities in the Syria, Euphrates valley and the fertile lands in the south of Mesopotamia, also established Bīt-Zamāni principality whose capital was the city of ...
Nurgül YILDIRIM
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La «maison de succession» à l’époque néo-assyrienne
This paper is a study, through archaeological, iconographic and textual documentation, about an essential institution in the neo-assyrian monarchy succession system.
Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós
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