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All that Glitters : Gold in the Royal Ideology of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Kaskal : rivista di storia, ambiente e culture del vicino oriente antico : 16, 2019, 2021
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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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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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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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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
wiley   +1 more source

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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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
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Neo-Elamite Royal Ideology in the shadow of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

, 2023
During the early to mid-first millennium BC, the Ancient Near East was dominated by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, led by powerful rulers who had built their legacy and authority on a well-designed royal ideology.
Gorris, Elynn, Lecture series of the Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation   +1 more
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Nergal's Rituals in Neo-Assyrian Religious Policy

, 2023
The article investigates aspects of the devotion to Nergal in the Neo-Assyrian sources referring to various ritual contexts, military praxis included. It also considers how this specific divine figure and the cult to him attributed can be connected with ...
ponchia simonetta
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Kingship and Queenship in the Ancient Near Eastern Empires of the First Millennium BCE: Presentation to the Public as Builder

Studia Orientalia Electronica
Empires and kingship are long-standing topics of research in ancient Near Eastern studies; the study of queenship has gradually received more attention over recent decades.
Melanie Wasmuth, Tero Alstola , Rotem Avneri Meir , Ellie Bennett, Rick Bonnie, Marta Lorenzon, Yaser Malek Zadeh, Jessica Nitschke , Gillian Ramsey Neugebauer, Joonas Sipilä, Saana Svärd , Joanna Töyräänvuori , Caroline Wallis , Jason Silverman   +13 more
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