Archaeology and texts of the Ancient Near East
Sabrina Autenrieth deposited Zerstörungswut – The Deliberate Destruction of MonuMentality in Ancient and Modern times in the group
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Destruction is an element of human behaviour that is universally present throughout our history. But what are the driving forces behind these violent acts? Can an underlying motivation be recognised in the archaeological record? This article focuses on the destruction and mutilation of monumental architecture and figurative works, and puts them…[Read more]
Marco De Pietri deposited La “città” prima della città in the group
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A didactic poster (written for schools) presented on the occasion of the conference “La città com’era, com’è, e come la vorremmo”, organized within the project “Pavia 100 Torri – Osservatorio Permanente sull’Antico”, held at the UNIPV on February 8th, 2013.
Marco De Pietri deposited Review of: I. von Bredow 2017, Kontaktzone Vorderer Orient und Ägypten. Orte, Situationen und Bedingungen für primäre griechisch-orientalische Kontakte vom 10. bis zum 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr.”, Stuttgart in the group
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Review of: I. von Bredow 2017, Kontaktzone Vorderer Orient und Ägypten. Orte, Situationen und Bedingungen für primäre griechisch-orientalische Kontakte vom 10. bis zum 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr.”, Stuttgart
Marco De Pietri deposited Review to: R. Parker (ed.) 2013, Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia, Oxford in the group
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Review to: R. Parker (ed.) 2013, Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia, Oxford
Marco De Pietri deposited Archaeological Excavations (TR) at Niğde-Kınık Höyük: Excavation Report 2017 in the group
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Niğde-Kınık Höyük: Excavation Report of Season 2017
Marco De Pietri deposited Excavations at Kınık Höyük 2016 / 2016 Yılı Kınık Höyük Kazıları in the group
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Report of excavation at Kınık Höyük (Turkey), season 2016 (specifically, paragraph “Operation B”, together with L. d’Alfonso, pp. 591-592).
Marco De Pietri deposited Campagna di scavi ISCAB-FTL e USI alla grotta 11Q di Qumran, marzo 2017 in the group
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The paper presents the report about the excavation campaign at Qumran cave 11Q, carried out from 9th to 19th March 2017 by the Istituto di cultura e archeologia delle terre bibliche of the Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano (ISCAB-FTL) and by the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI). Previous archaeological excavations, undertaken by Roland de V…[Read more]
Marco De Pietri deposited Relationships between Egypt and Karkemish during the 2nd millennium BC: a brief overview in the group
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The present paper analyses the mutual influences between Egypt and the city of Karkemish (present Jarabulus) during both the 2nd and the 1st Millennium BC. This Syrian city was indeed an important site located on the Euphrates river, along the border between modern Turkey and Syria and is surely better known for its strong relationship with the…[Read more]
Marco De Pietri deposited La piazza dov’è? Un’indagine sul concetto di ʻpiazzaʼ nell’età pre-classica in the group
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A brief reflection on the concept of pre-classical antiquity square, analyzing some archaeological and textual sources.
Henry Colburn deposited Review of Kings, Countries, Peoples: Selected Studies on the Achaemenid Empire, by Pierre Briant in the group
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Review of Kings, Countries, Peoples: Selected Studies on the Achaemenid Empire, by Pierre Briant, translated by Amélie Kuhrt. Oriens et Occidens, vol. 26. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. Pp. xxv + 633. €99.
Henry Colburn deposited Ernst Herzfeld, Joseph Upton, and the Artaxerxes Phialai in the group
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This paper discusses a letter found in the archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art which contains the earliest documented reference to the Artaxerxes phialai first published by Ernst Herzfeld in 1935.
Jonathan Valk deposited The Eagle and the Snake, or anzû and bašmu? Another Mythological Dimension in the Epic of Etana in the group
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Much of the surviving text of the Epic of Etana tells the story of an eagle and a snake. The eagle and snake are extraordinary creatures, and their story abounds with mythological subtext. This paper argues that the Neo-Assyrian recension of Etana was amended to include explicit references to the eagle and the snake by the names of their…[Read more]
Evgeny Shalman deposited Revised Age of Patriarchs in the group
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Ages of patriarchs in Genesis 5 and 11 are usually interpreted as literal, symbolic or fictional. We suggest alternative interpretation of literal one. In Genesis 5 not only age of patriarch is abnormally long but also the ratio of maximal age to minimal begetting age is unrealistic from common human experience (the ratio is approximately 15).…[Read more]
Henry Colburn deposited A PERFUNCTORY AND HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE GUIDE TO THE CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY JOB MARKET (2020) in the group
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I wrote the first version of this guide in the summer of 2018. For the first time in my career I had received a multi-year fellowship, and I had been told that the position had a good chance of continuing beyond the initial fellowship period, if not of becoming permanent. So, since I did not expect to have to search for employment again, it seemed…[Read more]
Cat Quine deposited Bereaved Mothers and Masculine Queens: The Political Use of Maternal Grief in 1-2 Kings. in the group
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Recent research demonstrates that maternal grief functions paradigmatically to epitomize despair and sorrow in the Hebrew Bible. These literary uses of maternal grief reinforce the stereotype of womanhood, defined by devotion to children and anguish at their loss. In 1–2 Kings, narratives about unnamed bereaved mothers are used politically to c…[Read more]
Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Deities, Demons, and Monsters in Mesopotamia. in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 7 months ago
Overview of demons and monsters in Mesopotamia, highlighting works in the Yale Babylonian Collection.
Lloyd Graham deposited Iconographic similarities between Permian “goddess plaques” (Ural region, 7-8th centuries CE) and Horus cippi (Egypt, 8th century BCE – 2nd century CE) in the group
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The iconography of the Horus cippus, an amulet popular in Egypt from the late Third Intermediate Period to Roman times (8th century BCE – 2nd century CE), is unexpectedly recapitulated in bronze “goddess plaques” of the 7-8th centuries CE made by Permian peoples – Finno-Ugric groups from the Ural region of northern Eurasia. The likely expla…[Read more]
Henry Colburn deposited Udjahorresnet the Persian: Being an Essay on the Archaeology of Identity in the group
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This essay is an examination of Udjahorresnet’s Persian identity. Best known from the inscription on his naophorous statue now in the Vatican, Udjahorresnet was a high-ranking courtier in Egypt under the Saite pharaohs Amasis and Psamtik III, and subsequently under the Persian kings Cambyses and Darius. While his statue’s form, function and ins…[Read more]
Andrea Sinclair deposited ‘The International Style, Colour and Polychrome Faience’. in the group
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The International Style is a theoretical model used to describe various objects from the Eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age that exhibit hybrid diagnostic features (iconography, media, form). Resulting in the inability for archaeologists over the past 150 years to identify cultural source. This paper is a reprint of the chapter on colour…[Read more]
Michael Sommer deposited Europas Ahnen. Ursprünge des Politischen bei den Phönikern in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 9 months ago
PhD thesis, Freiburg im Breisgau 1999. On political institution in the Phoenician coastal cities
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