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The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Jerusalem. [PDF]

Ground Water
Abstract Jerusalem, a city held sacred by three of the world's great religions, is located in a semi‐arid climate, and its occupation through the millennia has only been made possible by the construction of an extensive and ingenious water supply infrastructure. The settlement of Jerusalem was first made possible by water from the Gihon Spring.
Deming D.
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Ancient Near Eastern Treaty Traditions and Biblical Covenants: Recent Surveys

Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2022
Three recent books survey ancient Near Eastern treaty texts and discuss their relevance to biblical covenants. Kitchen and Lawrence present the most extensive anthology now available.
William S. Morrow
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A handbook from the Eduba'a: an Old Babylonian collection of model contracts [PDF]

, 2011
The Old Babylonian prism here published is a compendium of model contracts (and one legal provision) written in Sumerian and it is a direct expression of the scholastic legal tradition in Southern ...
Spada, Gabriella
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Writing Sumerian, Creating Texts: Reflections on Text-building Practices in Old Babylonian Schools [PDF]

, 2015
Sumerian lexical and literary compositions both emerged from the same social sphere, namely scribal education. The complexities of inter-compositional dependence in these two corpora have not been thoroughly explored, particularly as relevant to ...
Jay Crisostomo
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Unpublished Cuneiform Texts from Old Babylonian Period

مجلة الآداب, 2018
The cuneiform texts particularly the economic texts are considered as one of the most important documents that reflect the reality of everyday life, in fact among the periods of Mesopotamia the Old Babylonian Period (1595-2004 B.C) was characterized by ...
Hussein Mohammed Al-Hummeri
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A New Old Babylonian Date List with Hammurapi Year Names

Dirāsāt fī al-tārīẖ wa-al-āṯār, 2023
This paper contains the publication of a previously unknown date list of Hammurapi, the king of Babylon, with his year formulae, kept in the Sulaymaniyah Museum in Iraq. The tablet originally contained the year formulae for 42 years of Hammurapi's reign
Ardalan Khwshnaw
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Visualizing the Provenance of Sumerian Literary Texts [PDF]

, 2018
1) DatingOld Babylonian (ca. 1800–1500 B.C.)2) Place namesAbu Salabikh, Babylon, Ḫattuša, Isin, Kiš, Lagas, Larsa, Mari, Me-Turan, Nippur, black market, Sippar, Susa, Tutub, Uruk, Ur3) Text corporaThe Decad: a group of ten literary texts presumably ...
Borkowski, Sebastian
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Unpublished Economic Texts From the Old Babylonian Period

مجلة الآداب, 2019
The cuneiform texts considered one of the most important resources which play an important role , and help us to know how was the economic , politic and religious conditions , and everything related of the history of Mesopotamia , which contain many ...
Shaimaa Nassir Hussain
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Mesopotamian cylinder seals - an epigraphic study.

Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 2000
The study of cylinder seals is important not only because of its iconography but also because of inscriptions. This article analyzes some texts of a rich merchant from Larsa in the Old Babylonian period.
Katia Maria Paim Pozzer
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Officials of the Šamaš temple of Sippar as contract witnesses in the old Babylonian period [PDF]

, 2011
Little is known about the organisation of the Šamaš temple in Old Babylonian Sippar, the Ebabbar. This is due to the fact that the vast majority of attestations of the temple officials of the Ebabbar are to be found in the witness lists of contracts.
Suurmeijer, Guido, Tanret, Michel
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