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Metaphors and the Invention of Writing. [PDF]
Top Cogn SciAbstract The foundation of ancient, invented writing systems lies in the predominant iconicity of their sign shapes. However, these shapes are often used not for their referential meaning but in a metaphorical way, whereby one entity stands for another.
Ottaviano L +3 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares +5 more
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Measuring Beyond the Standard: Informal Measurement Systems as Cognitive Technologies. [PDF]
Top Cogn SciAbstract This paper explores the role of measurement as a cognitive technology across human history, emphasizing the coexistence of formal and informal measurement systems. While standardized systems dominate contemporary culture and are well documented across large‐scale societies of the past, this manuscript highlights the less explored domain of ...
Kaaronen RO, Manninen MA, Eronen JT.
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CuneiML: A Cuneiform Dataset for Machine Learning
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2023 The cuneiform writing system holds a vast reservoir of ancient literature, encompassing over 3000 years of history. Originating around the mid-fourth millennium BCE and enduring until the late first millennium BCE, cuneiform writing spans various genres ...
Danlu Chen +3 more
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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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Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age, by Y. Cohen [author] [PDF]
, 2013 This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca.
Cohen, Yoram
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The sky from the high terrace. study on the orientation of the Ziqqurat in Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
, 2016 The ziqqurat is the symbol of the Mesopotamian sacred architecture in the western thought. This monument, standardized at the end of the III millennium BC by the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur, has changed during the history of Mesopotamia its shape ...
NADALI, Davide, Polcaro, Andrea
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Sumerian Character Extraction by Using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Split Region Methods
Kurdistan Journal of Applied Research, 2017 this paper proposed a new method to extract characters from Sumerian Texts in Sumerian cuneiform tablets from the Ur III period. The work was confronted by the challenges posed by the fact that Sumerian is not a well understood language and it is not ...
Moahaimen Talib, Jamila Harbi S
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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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Implications for sports Obelisk Badra Sumerian [PDF]
مجلة الرافدين للعلوم الرياضية, 2013 The research aims to identify the following: - Obelisk Badra Sumerian history by identifying the place in which they found in it, its history, and specifications.
Sauod A. Mehsin
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