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Jamaan at the pass of Bi’rein. An Iron Age IIB-C Ammonite stronghold in central Jordan [PDF]
In years 2015-2016 the Zarqa Directorate of the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan carried out a rescue excavation at the site of Jamaan, an Iron Age IIB-C Ammonite stronghold 16 Km north of ‘Amman.
Gharib, Romeel, Nigro, Lorenzo
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The Importance of Effective Population Size in Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring
ABSTRACT Effective population size (Ne) is a key concept in biology and conservation. Stripped to its bare essentials, it reflects how much genetic drift a population experiences, expressed as a number of individuals of an ideal theoretical population. Superficially, Ne seems like a fairly simple concept, but the more layers of the onion you peel, the ...
Joachim Mergeay +3 more
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La Matemática Paleobabilónica crece en la actividad de las escuelas de escribas. Resuelve problemas con valores numéricos concretos; es una matemática de cálculo.
Manuel Pérez Rodríguez
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نصوص مسماریة غیر منشورة من العصر البابلی القدیم من المتحف العراقی [PDF]
تعدّ النصوص المسماریة ولاسیما الاقتصادیة منها من أهم الوثائق التی تعکس واقع الحیاة الیومیة، وقد تمیز العصر البابلی القدیم (2006-1595 ) ق.م من بین العصور التاریخیة لبلاد الرافدین بازدهار نشاطه الاقتصادی وتطوره ، وقد انعکس ذلک فی النصوص المسماریة ذات ...
أحمد فاضل
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The Powers of 9 and Related Mathematical Tables from Babylon
Late-Babylonian mathematics (450-100 BC), represented by some 60 cuneiform tablets from Babylon and Uruk, is incompletely known compared to its abundantly preserved, well-studied Old-Babylonian predecessor (1800-1600 BC).
Ossendrijver, Mathieu
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Levantine Hacksilber and the flow of silver in early Mediterranean commerce
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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The Off‐Tonic Recapitulation in Context: a Study in Fuzziness
ABSTRACT The double return of the principal theme and home key has long held pride of place in theories of sonata form. For James Webster (2001) it is the paramount feature of sonata form; similarly, for James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy (2006) it is the feature that lies at the heart of their sonata‐theory typology, distinguishing between their types 1,
YOEL GREENBERG
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Hope in Exile: In Conversation with Ezekiel
The question of hope in dark times, though topical, is not new. The Babylonian Exile (597/587−539 BCE) is commonly recognised as perhaps the most profound, yet also most fruitful crisis in biblical (Old Testament) times.
Janina M. Hiebel
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‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on examining the online activities of a group of diasporic Iranians who exhibit Israeli proxy nationalism online by openly expressing support for Israel and Zionism. By analysing posts, reposts and comments made on X after the Hamas‐led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 using the hashtag #IraniansStandWithIsrael, the paper ...
Ladan Rahbari
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Naming the gods: traditional verse-making in Homer and Old Babylonian Akkadian poetry
This is an investigation of character-naming expressions in early Greek (ca. eighth–sixth c. BC) and Old Babylonian Akkadian narrative poetry (ca. nineteenth–seventeenth c. BC).
Bernardo Ballesteros
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