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Detachment Fault‐Hosted Subduction Re‐Initiation of the (Ultra)Slow‐Spreading Western Neo‐Tethys in the Jurassic

open access: yesGeochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 25, Issue 2, February 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Gatekeepers and lock masters: the control of access in the Neo-Assyrian palaces [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
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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Masters of mudbrick: Geoarchaeological analysis of Iron Age earthen public buildings at Ashdod‐Yam (Israel)

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 35-62, January/February 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Bereaved Mothers and Masculine Queens: The Political Use of Maternal Grief in 1–2 Kings

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2020
Recent research demonstrates that maternal grief functions paradigmatically to epitomize despair and sorrow in the Hebrew Bible. These literary uses of maternal grief reinforce the stereotype of womanhood, defined by devotion to children and anguish at ...
Quine Cat
doaj   +1 more source

Bathing Rooms in First-Millennium Assyria

open access: yesKaskal
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
doaj   +1 more source

The Lower Habur. A preliminary report on a survey conducted by the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients in 1975 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1977
Most urban areas of developing countries were hitherto experiencing unprecedented growth in their population, the phenomenon commonly referred to as urbanization, which in this study can be said to be the proportion of urban population relative to the ...
Kühne, Hartmut, Röllig, Wolfgang
core   +3 more sources

The Dogs of Ninkilim, part two: Babylonian rituals to counter field pests [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article presents editions of all the extant Babylonian incantations against field pests. The sources date to the first millennium BC and many have not been published before.
Alster   +101 more
core   +1 more source

The City “Amēdi” in Neo-Assyrian Texts

open access: yesAnkara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2017
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
doaj  

NEO ASSYRIAN ASHURNASIRPAL/BANQUET STELE

open access: yes, 2022
Assyrian kings gave great feasts after important events such as feasts, victories and city openings. In addition to the Assyrian people, ambassadors from the surrounding countries were also invited to these feasts. The banquets given at the city openings could be more crowded than the others. II.
openaire   +1 more source

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