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Levantine Hacksilber and the flow of silver in early Mediterranean commerce

Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 6, Page 1547-1564, December 2025.
Abstract This study presents a comprehensive approach to provenancing ancient silver artefacts, introducing a novel algorithm to correct for mass‐dependent isotope fractionation. Applied to a Pb isotope database of 281 Hacksilber samples from southern Levantine hoards (1700–600 BCE) and compared with approximately 7000 galena ores from Spain to Iran ...
Francis Albarede, Gillan Davis, Haim Gitler, Janne Blichert‐Toft, Liesel Gentelli   +4 more
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La voz de la Historia, el Imperio Neoasirio : sus problemas y algunas pruebas arqueológicas

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2011
Algunos documentos conservados en el Museo Británico prueban el origen de los problemas históricos que destruyeron el reino de Asiria, el mayor Imperio del Próximo Oriente en el siglo VII a.C.Some documents preserved in the British Museum prove the ...
Ana María Vázquez Hoys
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Marketless trading in Hammurabi’s time: A re-appraisal [PDF]

, 2013
In this article I revisit Karl Polanyi’s writings on ancient Mesopotamia. I begin by situating them in the context of his general approach to trade, markets and money in the ancient world. Next, I reconstruct his major theses on Mesopotamia, drawing upon
Dale, G
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CONSUMPTION PATTERNS OF A VASSAL: THE CASE OF LACHISH AND JERUSALEM

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 139-158, May 2025.
Summary This study analyzes the complex interplay of material culture, elite consumption and imperial power dynamics as they relate to the roles of Lachish and Jerusalem in the Iron IIA and to the formation of the Kingdom of Judah. Based on an analysis of luxury goods and social practices, it explores established interpretations of the geopolitical ...
Reli Avisar
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Becoming Empire: Neo-Assyrian palaces and the creation of courtly culture [PDF]

Journal of Ancient History, 2019
AbstractAssyria (911–612 BCE) can be described as the founder of the imperial model of kingship in the ancient Near East. The Assyrian court itself, however, remains poorly understood. Scholarship has treated the court as a disembodied, textual entity, separated from the physical spaces it occupied – namely, the palaces. At the same time, architectural
Gross, M.M., Kertai, D.
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Strangers "par excellence". Arabs in the Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions

The Biblical Annals
The basic questions posed in the article were: what characteristics caused Arabs to be per­ceived by the elites of the Neo-Assyrian Empire as strangers, and whether such classification resulted in their treatment differently from other peoples?
Maciej Münnich
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Material Profiling of Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals by Raman Spectroscopy

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 228-242, March 2025.
Mesopotamian cylinder seals (fourth ‐ first millennium bce) from the collection of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg were non‐destructively studied by Raman spectroscopy were non‐destructively studied by Raman spectroscopy. The Raman spectral analysis identified the mineral constituents and quantitatively determined the chemical compositions of the
Stylianos Aspiotis, Albert Dietz, Zsombor Földi, Frank Hildebrandt, Jochen Schlüter, Boriana Mihailova   +5 more
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Language and identity in the Assyrian diaspora [PDF]

, 2001
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McClure, Erica F.
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Tuwati and Wasusarma: Imitating the behaviour of Assyria [PDF]

, 2010
This essay reviews the evidence concerning the Tabalian king Wasusarma and his father Tuwati, who appear in Neo-Assyrian and Urartian annals. The context for the removal of Wasusarma (Uassurme) from power by the Assyrian king is assumed to have lain in ...
Akdoğan, Arutiunian, Barjamovic, Boehmer, Dinçol, Draycott, Frahm, Fuchs, Genz, Genz, Goedegebuure, Gonnet, Hawkins, Hawkins, Hawkins, Hawkins, Hawkins, Hawkins, Hawkins, Hawkins, Hawkins, Hawkins, Hutter-Braunsar, Ikeda, Jasink, Jasink, Kloekhorst, König, Melchert, Müller-Karpe, Nakamura, Omura, Omura, Omura, Parpola, Rieken, Salvini, Salvini, Salvini, Salvini, Salvini, Schirmer, Starke, Summers, Tadmor, Weeden, Weippert, Wittke, Wäfler, Yakubovich, Yakubovich, Şenyurt   +51 more
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Masters of mudbrick: Geoarchaeological analysis of Iron Age earthen public buildings at Ashdod‐Yam (Israel)

Geoarchaeology, 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, Benjamín Cutillas‐Victoria, Eli Itkin, Alexander Fantalkin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source