Scholars working on languages, history and archaeology of Mesopotamia and surrounding regions
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Henry Colburn deposited Globalization and the Study of the Achaemenid Persian Empire in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThis essay examines what the paradigm of ‘globalization’ can tell us about the Achaemenid Persian Empire (c. 550-330 BCE).
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Henry Colburn deposited Globalization and the Study of the Achaemenid Persian Empire in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThis essay examines what the paradigm of ‘globalization’ can tell us about the Achaemenid Persian Empire (c. 550-330 BCE).
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Heather D Baker deposited House size and household structure: quantitative data in the study of Babylonian urban living conditions in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThe aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between dwelling size, household structure and social status in urban Babylonia during the first millennium BC.
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Heather D Baker deposited Family Structure, Household Cycle, and the Social Use of Domestic Space in Urban Babylonia in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThis paper examines the relationship between house and household in first-millennium BC Babylonia, drawing on both textual and archaeological evidence. It builds on previous research by the author which has focused on elucidating the Babylonian terms for parts of the house and correlating these with architectural forms, based on comparison with…[Read more]
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Émilie Pagé-Perron deposited Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of the Sumerian Language in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoThis paper presents a newly funded international project for machine translation and automated analysis of ancient cuneiform 1 languages where NLP special ists and Assyriologists collaborate to create an information retrieval system for
Sumerian. This research is conceived in response to the need to translate large numbers of administrative texts…[Read more] -
Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Textualization of Priestly Ritual in Light of Hittite Sources in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 12 months agoThis paper evaluates the recent upsurge of interest in the scribal processes underlying the composition of Hittite ritual text and the implications of this evidence for understanding the compositional history of biblical rituals.
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Mark Weeden deposited A Hittite Tablet from Büklükale in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 12 months agoEdition of cuneiform tablet excavated at Büklükale on the western Kızılırmak in 2010.
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Joost Blasweiler uploaded the file: Hanigalbat and the land Hani to
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Charles Jones deposited Two Late Elamite Tablets from Yale in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 1 year agoFirst publication of two late period Elamite language cuneiform texts house in the Yale Babylonian Collection
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Matthew Suriano deposited Ruin Hills at the Threshold of the Netherworld: The Tell in the Conceptual Landscape of the Ba’al Cycle and Ancient Near Eastern Mythology in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 1 year agoIn the Ba‘al Cycle’s description of the threshold separating the realms of the dead from that of the living, the key reference point is described as “the two tells (at) the boundary of the netherworld” (CAT 1.4 viii, 4). The specific word used to describe both topographical features is tl, the tell, an object well known in the archaeology of the…[Read more]
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Émilie Pagé-Perron deposited Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages (MTAAC) in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 1 year agoProject Abstract: Ancient Mesopotamia, birthplace of writing, has produced vast numbers of cuneiform tablets that only a handful of highly specialized scholars are able to read. The task of studying them is so labor intensive that the vast majority have not yet been translated, with the result that their contents are not accessible either to…[Read more]
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Émilie Pagé-Perron posted an update in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoAnyone can post an event so please do not hesitate to add conferences to the calendar
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Émilie Pagé-Perron deposited Abstract : Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative White Paper for the Global Philology Project in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoTalk Abstract
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