Inscriptions from al-hiba-lagash, the first and second seasons

An early village site at zawi chemi shanidar

Tpr 6

Terqa is the name of an ancient city discovered at the site of Tell Ashara on the banks of the middle Euphrates in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. Following a review of goals and procedures of the excavations at the site, the main substantive results pertaining to stratigraphy and architecture ar...

Stt 366: deutungsversuch 1982

Tpr 3

Terqa is the name of an ancient city discovered at the site of Tell Ashara on the banks of the middle Euphrates in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. This work is a typological analysis of 30 objects found during the second season of excavation, all dating to the third and second millennia.

Urkesh/mozan studies 3 urkesh and the hurrians

Terqa preliminary reports no 10

Terqa preliminary reports, no. 11

The primary aims of this study are to establish an overall orientation and framework for future analysis of this type at Terqa and to determine on a preliminary basis the relationship of ceramics and soils of two sites in the Near East: ancient Terqa (modern Ashara in Syria) and Dilbat (modern Te...

Salinity and irrigation agriculture in antiquity

Terqa preliminary reports, no. 8

Terqa is the name of an ancient city discovered at the site of Tell Ashara on the banks of the middle Euphrates in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. This is a typological analysis of 96 objects dating to the third and second millennia found during the third season of excavations at the site (1977).

Composition of some narrative reliefs from khorsabad

This work offers some suggestions for the restoration of the composition of the set of narrative reliefs from Room VII of Sargon's palace at Khorsabad, in present-day Iraq.

Papyri. greek & egyptian

Including a collection of papyrus texts, literary and documentary, in honour of Eric Turner.

The oxyrhynchus papyri. volume lxxiii

This volume on the Oxyrhynchus Collection includes Old and New Testament papyri, Aristophanes, Menander, new Greek texts (Empedocles, Thrasyllus, Dictys), and Roman period literature. It also features subliterary texts and documents on extortion and Roman Law.

Catalogue des sceaux-cylinders d'adana. review article of bm 6

One of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements of the world, Adana is a town in modern Turkey, on the Cilicia Plain. Of the 132 cylinder seals presented here, many types are still poorly known.

An archaic recording system and the origin of writing

A recording system based on tokens, spread throughout the Near East from the early Neolithic on, is proposed as a possible but demonstrable antecedent of the cuneiform writing system. Consisting of a rich and differentiated repertory of shapes and markings, this token system is more complex than ...

Science in qumran aramaic texts

The studies in this volume examine the knowledge and ideas about the natural and human world as reflected in the Aramaic texts of Qumran. Two questions guide the individual essays: What knowledge and what methods did they adopt from Mesopotamia? And how did they adapt this knowledge to their mono...

Uses and misuses of ancient mediterranean sources

How were ancient textual sources used and manipulated? How can this help us understand the dissemination of religious and mythological knowledge in different historical contexts? These essays on ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Rome analyze the reuse of texts from different contexts...

Priester pinhas in jerusalem und auf dem berg garizim

Tobias Funke takes an intertextual look at the construction and reception of the figure of the priest Phineas in texts of the Hebrew Bible as well as the intertestamental literature of the Second Temple period in Jerusalem and classifies his results in terms of literary, social, and religious his...

The descent of inanna as a ritual journey to kutha

Two complementary articles dealing with the Sumerian tale Inanna's descent to the netherworld, with a survey of Near Eastern Venus deities.

Ancient seals and the bible

Frauen in altsumerischer zeit

Platon und die zeit

This volume focuses on a major theme running through Plato's writings: the nature and essence of time. The contributions gathered here take a variety of philosophical and cosmological approaches, covering both ontological and ethical issues.

Yhwh's diversity

The diversity of the known YHWH names and the fact that there is no specific YHWH iconography lead to the thesis that there were different origins of YHWH and regional manifestations of this god before the exile. The polyyahwistic and polyiconographic approach to Yahwism reveals a mosaic of regio...

The beloved disciple as interpreter and author of scripture in the gospel of john

In this monograph, Julia D. Lindenlaub examines the Gospel of John's emphasis on its written medium in the context of early Christian and ancient Jewish literature. The gospel's authorial claims are shown to reveal how its status as a written text is modelled on esteem for authoritative written t...

Die wunder an den widersachern

The question of miracles also concerns questions of power, concepts of reality, and the impact of God. It is therefore necessary to develop a definition of miracles, including such aspects as power and reality. Based on this definition, Micheal Rydryck's study focusses on miracles of judgement in...

A hurrian musical score from ugarit

Ancient ammonites & modern arabs: 5000 years in the madaba plains of jordan

An excellent overview, written in accessible language, of the history of humanity on the Madaba plains of Jordan, an area known in the past as the land of the Ammonites.

Galen's humanistic medicine

This edition, translation, and collection of essays examines Galen’s conception of the role of philosophy in medicine; it also situates Galen’s disciplinary vision in relation to modern theorizations of the pertinence of the humanities to the medical profession.

Papyri from tebtunis in egyptian and in greek

This book makes available 53 papyri: 37 are inscribed with texts written in the native Egyptian scripts, 16 are in Greek. Of the former, 23 papyri are written in the demotic script, many of which contain parts of literary texts; the hieratic and hieroglyphic texts are chiefly religious. The Greek...

The neo-sumerian silver ring texts

This study focuses attention on a particular type of documents from the Ur III period in Mesopotamia, documents which record gifts of silver rings to various individuals.

Assyrian documents in the musee d'art et d'histoire, geneva

Three Neo-Assyrian legal and administrative tablets and four Middle Assyrian administrative fragments, probably mostly from Assur, are discussed here. The texts are published in copy and transliteration, with transliterations and commentary where appropriate.

The late babylonian texts of the oriental institute collection

In this volume D.B. Weisberg publishes the 54 cuneiform texts, almost all legal texts, from Uruk dated to the Seleucid and Arsacid periods which are preserved in the Tablet Collection of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Le leggi medioassire

Interrogative constructions with jn and jn-jw in old and middle egyptian

Subject and object in biblical aramaic

this new Form-Content analysis of BA case in Biblical Aramaic.

Libraries, handbooks, encyclopedias

This volume examines ancient and early medieval libraries, handbooks and encyclopedias as interrelated types of knowledge repositories by investigating their embeddedness in religious contexts and their religious functions or connotations. Selected case studies illuminate interactions between edu...

The royal palace of ebla

This essay presents a preliminary picture of the 1973-1975 excavations of the Tell Mardikh (Ebla) Royal Palace G, in Syria, which dates to Early Bronze IVA ( ca. 2400-2250 B.C.).

The rabbeans

This study deals with the West Semitic nomadic tribe of the Rabbeans who at the time of the Mart archives belonged to the Benjaminite confederation and controlled one of the mixed urbantribal states on the upper Middle Euphrates.

The idea of history in the ancient near east

Reconstructing history from ancient inscriptions

From about 2500 to 2350 B.C.the Sumerian city-states of Lagash and Umma contested the right to a tract of land on their common border. Their dispute is documented by a series of inscriptions filled with claims and counterclaims. This volume makes available for the first time complete English tran...

Structure of society and state in early dynastic sumer [1959]

Nocturnal ciphers

This monograph seeks to understand the cultural context and function of wordplay as employed by ancient Mesopotamian dream interpreters and other divinatory experts. The author then aims to use this context to explain the presence of punning in Akkadian literary and epistolary accounts of enigmat...

Provincial governance in middle assyria

In the latter fourteenth and thirteenth centuries B.C., the Middle Assyrian state underwent a major expansion which raised it to the stature of a great power in the Near East. The efforts made to rule the newly acquired territories are the subject of this study.

Some considerations on the stelae of assur

A study of the stelae of Assur, the ancient capital of the Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia.

Palamedes volume 15

Palamedes: A Journal of Ancient History is published on behalf of the University of Warsaw. It seeks to provide a forum where all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations can meet with their Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts.

The early dynastic list of geographical names

This study reconstructs Mesopotamian geography based primarily on the third-millennium lists of geographical place names found at Abu Salabikh in Mesopotamian and at Ebla in Syria.

Hittite birth rituals

The analysis of writing is shown to parallel that of speech. Graphemes-- that is, letter shapes--are analyzed in terms of the physical distinctive features of strokes, minimal pairs, and etic and emic components.

The city and its teacher

The studies collected in this volume examine an episode of religious conflict that profoundly impacted the life of Constantinople - the deposition and exile of its bishop, John Chrysostom. Each article takes as its starting point the Oratio funebris . Together they offer a multifaceted explorati...

Die romidee bei claudian und prudentius

Sophie Kultzen's comparative study of Claudian and Prudentius sheds new light on pagan-Christian interactions in poetic works. Beyond ideological differences and the individual characterization of literary figures, both authors are united by the importance they attach to the idea of Roma aeterna .

Eusebios, porphyrios und augustin im kampf um deutungshoheit

Platonism and Christianity saw each other as a threat in late antiquity. They each attempted to establish their own sovereignty of interpretation and to invalidate the orientation promised by the other. This volume focuses on the Platonist Porphyrios and his fight against the Christian authors E...

Bildung im gespräch

Peter Chrysologus penned his sermons in such a way that they could become an educational experience. By analysing the sermons of this particular bishop of Ravenna, Lina Hantel paints a picture of how the Gospel was communicated, shedding light on how Chrysologus edified his congregation and subse...

Living bodies, dead bodies, and the cosmos

Which concepts about humans, their physical existence, and the world are universal, and which are culturally specific and historically diverse? This volume explores concepts related to the living body, the dead body, and the cosmos found in the cultural traditions of different eras and world regi...

Commentary on the pseudonymous letters of aeschines

Zilong Guo examines the letters attributed to Aeschines, highlighting their blend of literary traditions. Through analysis and commentary, he reveals their role in Greek literature, from rhetorical exercises to epistolary fiction, and offers insight into their historical and literary significance.

Old babylonian texts from kish conserved in the istanbul archaeological museums

The teaching poet

In his study of didactic poetry in Hellenistic Greece, Leonardo Cazzadori explores the intellectual history of the concept of "didactic" poetry, analyses the cultural background of the poems (fourth to second centuries B.C.), and examines the poems' rhetorical strategies in popularizing scientifi...

Der geographische raum in den werken des nikander von kolophon

Anna Malomud's in-depth study introduces the reader to the works of the Greek teacher-poet Nicander of Colophon (second century BC). These works represent a peculiar combination of medical expertise and extremely sophisticated artistic language. The volume considers geographical space as the key ...

The sumerian temple city

Focuses on the the urban and religious dimensions of one of the earliest historical civilisations, describing in detail, and with reference to primary sources, the organisation of the templeand its interrelationship with the political and social order of ancient Sumer.

The arena of tiglath-pileser iii's campaign against sarduri ii (743 bc)

In 743 B.C. Tiglath-pileser III led a victorious march against Sarduri of Urartu and his vassals in the historic Armenian Highlands. A comparison of the four extant Assyrian relations of that campaign yields a clear picture of its geographical arena.

A nuzi private archive

The real estate records from the so-called Tehip-tilla house in Nuzi comprise a private archive, whose functions are described in this study. The documentation preserved in the archive suggest that the main function was to demonstrate that real estate was held legally or changed hands within the ...

The akkadian namburbu texts

Namburbi is the title of a group of typical Babylonian incantations, used to "undo" or avert portended evil. This book explains the nature of the texts and the ritual associated with them, and provides translations of 14 representative texts.

New horizons in the study of ancient syria

Old sumerian and old akkadian texts in philadelphia, chiefly from nippur part i

Collations to neo-assyrian legal texts from nineveh

This work presents around 300 of the corpus of legal texts from the imperial archives of Nineveh. These texts a source of foremost importance not only to the study of the legal practices and economic life of the Neo-Assyrian empire, but above all to the prosopography and chronology of the period.

Mozan 1

Preliminary soundings were conducted at Tell Mozan in the north-central portion of the Khabur plains in 1984 and 1985. This volume reports on the finds made as well as on various aspects of research goals of the project.

Studies in ishchali documents

The rituals of the diviner

Explaining trade in ancient western asia

A comparative examination of two books on ancient trade (Trade in the Ancient Near East, ed. J. D. Hawkins, 1977 and Ancient Civilizations and Trade, eds. J. A. Sabloff and C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky 1975) provides the opportunity to juxtapose bodies of data and theory in the interpretation of Mesopo...