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A Survey of Body Part Construction Metaphors in the Neo-Assyrian Letter Corpus
Journal of Open Humanities DataThe dataset consists of approximately 2,400 examples of metaphors in Akkadian of what we term Body Part Constructions (BPCs) within the letter sub-corpus of the State Archives of Assyria online (SAAo).
Matthew Ong, Shai Gordin
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Asia Anteriore AnticaWe present findings from a semi-automated linguistic analysis of the letter corpus of the online State Archives of Assyria project (SAAo), focusing on a specific grammatical configuration we dub a Body Part Construction (BPC).
Matthew Ong, Shai Gordin
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Letters have weight: weighted 'k'-shells in a Neo-Assyrian co-attestation network
Journal of Historical Network ResearchNetwork Analysis is still gaining momentum within Neo-Assyrian (c. 934-612 BCE) scholarship. Studies are exploring different types of networks, and what various centrality measures highlight in their datasets.
Ellie Bennett +2 more
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The Possibility of the Existence of An Older Ancestral Land for the People of Parsua Based on the Contents of Written Archaeological Sources and Historical-Mythological Names [PDF]
پژوهش های تاریخی, 2022 Based on the data extracted from Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions, this is a famous fact that the report of Shalmaneser III is the earliest text, which has mentioned the political presence of a group of people named Parsuans as the league of 27 rulers" in
Sorena Firouzi +2 more
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What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 158-172, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Nabataean Aramaic contains a large number of loanwords from Arabic. Together with other evidence, this has been taken as an indication that the Nabataeans used Aramaic as a written language only, while a Pre‐Islamic variety of Arabic was their spoken language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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Cultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 411-437, August 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT The fraught tectonic history of Anatolia has given oil in Turkey an absent presence. In this article, I examine how oil's absent presence produces a series of speculations in Turkish public life regarding oil's alleged abundance and its obstructed production. In particular, I trace widespread speculations that claim that the Treaty of Lausanne,
ZEYNEP OGUZ
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Climate change and early urbanism in Southwest Asia: A review
WIREs Climate Change, Volume 13, Issue 1, January/February 2022., 2022 Some of the earliest cities in the world occupied the dryland environments of Southwest Asia. We review the role of climate fluctuations in the emergence, collapse, and resilience of these cities, and argue for greater focus on the differential persistence of urban sites through time. Abstract During the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (c.
Dan Lawrence +2 more
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Food Frontiers, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 449-485, December 2021., 2021 An overview of licorice application and its health benefits Abstract Since the beginning, human beings have consistently been using plants and their components for the prevention and treatment of various ailments. However, in the last few decades, plant‐based medicines and health supplements are gaining more acceptability and rapid popularity. Licorice
Islam Husain +3 more
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A Full Morphosyntactic Annotation of the State Archives of Assyria Letter Corpus
Journal of Open Humanities DataThe dataset consists of a full morphosyntactic annotation of the normalized letter corpus of the State Archives of Assyria online (SAAo), plus associated metadata regarding sender, recipient, estimated date of composition, script, and dialect of Akkadian
Matthew Ong
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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 +4 more
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