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Sourcing carnelian beads from the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kish, Iraq, 2450–2200 BCE: Stylistic, technological and geochemical approaches

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Civilization is studied through the analysis of Early Dynastic III Period (2600–2350 BCE) carnelian beads from the site of Kish, Iraq. Morphological and technological features of the beads are compared with beads from the Indus region.
J. Mark Kenoyer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cuneiform Text Dialect Identification Using Machine Learning Algorithms and Natural Language Processing (NLP)

open access: yesIraqi Journal of Information & Communication Technology
Due to a lack of resources and the tokenization issue, it is challenging to identify the languages inscribed in cuneiform symbols. Sumerian and six dialects of the Akkadian language-Old Babylonian, Middle Babylonian Peripheral, Standard Babylonian ...
Elaf A. Saeed   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spelling, phonology and etymology in Hittite historical linguistics, a review article on Kloekhorst, A. Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden: 2008) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This review article addresses the representation of glottal stops in Akkadian and Hittite ...
Bürde   +39 more
core   +1 more source

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

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Archaeometric Approach to Reveal Organic Compounds via GC‐MS Analyses of Two Discovered Incense Burners at Daba Al‐Bayah

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Old Babylonian loan contract "Aegyptus 10.1" (= Boson 1936 n° 300) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The short article offers an updated transliteration, along with a commentary and a photograph, of an Old Babylonian tablet (known as "Aegyptus 10.1") belonging to the cuneiform collection of the library of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in ...
GIUSFREDI FEDERICO, SPADA GABRIELLA
core  

The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

مجلة دراسات في التاريخ والاثار 71

open access: yesDirāsāt fī al-tārīẖ wa-al-āṯār, 2020
: The economic texts represent most of the cuneiform texts discovered in Mesopotamia. Its importance is providing great information about the economy of each city.
حسين محمد رضا
doaj  

Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
wiley   +1 more source

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