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A Newly Discovered Tablet‐Making Facility in Nineveh: Insights From Scientific Analysis

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the question of tablet technology in the Neo‐Assyrian capital city of Nineveh. Recent excavations in the lower town of Nineveh by the Iraqi–Italian Archaeological Expedition uncovered an exceptional assemblage of more than 200 tablets from an elite residence that appears to have included a scriptorium.
Mathilde Jean, Michela Spataro, Jonathan Taylor, Gianfranco Ulian, Giovanni Valdré, Gabriele Giacosa, Eleonora Mariani, Nicolò Marchetti   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Greek Commodities in Phoenicia: An Interdisciplinary Study of Imported Amphorae From Tell el‐Burak (Lebanon)

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 395-408, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines transport amphorae of Greek/Aegean types from the 7th–4th c. BCE imported to the Phoenician coastal settlement of Tell el‐Burak, Lebanon. We present a selection of 58 pieces analyzed by typological, chemical (NAA), and petrographic approaches.
Maximilian Rönnberg, Marcel Frenken, Johannes H. Sterba, Silvia Amicone   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 240-256, March 2026.
Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
wiley   +1 more source

StructFusionNet: Structural Feature Fusion in CNNs for Handwritten

Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Babylonian numerals constitute a fundamental component of the Mesopotamian sexagesimal numbering system and represent one of the earliest structured numeral representations in human history. Despite their historical importance, the automated recognition of Babylonian numeral symbols remains relatively underexplored in computational research. This study
Loay Alzubaidi, Arif Alnahdi, Ayman Ahmed, Nazar Waheed, Ammar El Hassan, Pramita Mishra   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Daniel Bar‐Tal, on the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict, before and after October 7, 2023: In conversation with James Liu and Veronica Hopner

Political Psychology, Volume 46, Issue 6, Page 1419-1439, December 2025.
Abstract The Israel‐Palestinian conflict is one of the most well‐known and polarizing issues that has impacts on societies, and institutions beyond Israel, and Palestine. This interview with prominent social scientist Daniel Bar‐Tal, Professor Emeritus, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, focused on the situation in Israel and Palestine following
Daniel Bar‐Tal
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Geoarchaeology in the Absence of Layers: Large‐Scale Sampling From an Iron Age Urban Context in the Southern Levant

Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Understanding the impact of erosion and postdepositional processes is essential for reconstructing site formation in ancient tells. At Tel1 Burna, a multiperiod stratified site in the Shephelah region of central Israel, we integrate portable X‐ray fluorescence (pXRF), portable optically stimulated luminescence (pOSL), and organic residue ...
Martin P. Janovský, Sabina Millerová, Chris McKinny, Oren Ackermann, Lenka Lisá, Jan Fišer, Tziona Ben‐Gedalya, Daniel Imas, Cynthianne Spiteri, Polina Nikolskaia, Itzick Shai   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The City “Amēdi” in Neo-Assyrian Texts

Ankara 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  

A Full Morphosyntactic Annotation of the State Archives of Assyria Letter Corpus

Journal of Open Humanities Data
The 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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Dynamics of Social Cohesion in Post‐Conflict Mosul: Group Perspectives, Challenges and Facilitators

Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 35, Issue 5, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT While social cohesion is a widely researched phenomenon, its dynamics warrant further examination in post‐conflict societies. The study explored perceived social cohesion indicators in subcommunities in post‐conflict Mosul and provided contextual understanding of its facilitators and barriers. In addition to a quantitative household survey (N =
Kristina Jadranović, Noor Hussein Ali, Ahmed Salahaldin Sadoon, Lena Anna Schmid   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source