Author: Yuval GorenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Provenance Study of the Amarna Tablets and other Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Inscribed in Clay
Author: Yuval GorenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Provenance Study of the Amarna Tablets and other Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Inscribed in Clay
Author: Yuval GorenPublisher: Emery and Claire Yass Archaeology Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Examines letters from the Tell el-Amarna archive in Egypt, written between Egypt and other Middle Eastern nations ca. 1360-1334 B.C. Uses material and chemical analysis for provenance information and historical geography.
Inscribed in Clay
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ISBN: 9789652660305
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Nymphaeum of Kafizin
Author: Terence B. MitfordPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110837129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
They Wrote on Clay
Author: Edward ChieraPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107486653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Originally published in 1939, this book contains an assessment of the historical evidence provided by ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets. The text is accompanied by a number of photographs of the tablets, as well as of important archaeological sites and Babylonian artefacts. Chiera's enthusiasm for his subject is clear, as the text is accessibly written and contains many Babylonian legends and assesses their relationship to biblical texts. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Assyriology and the ancient Middle East.
The Archives of Ebla
Author: Giovanni PettinatoPublisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
When the ancient city of Ebla was unearthed, archaeologists discovered the well-preserved royal library containing more than 15,000 clay tablets and fragments. At digs in modern-day Syria, the Ebla tablets provide unique insight into the culture and and history of ancient Mesopotamia.
Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures
Author: Eike GrossmannPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111382710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten, neglected, or even erased women's contributions from memory. Women's agency has also been a glaring blind spot in the scholarly pursuit of gender perspectives on the production of written artefacts. This volume addresses these lacunae by highlighting manuscripts and inscriptions by and for women, their active participation and enabling sponsorship, and their role in the circulation and dissemination of written artefacts. Seven papers present case studies from East Asian inscriptions to ancient cuneiform epigraphic, Egyptian graffiti from late antiquity to individual specimen and large-scale collections in medieval Europe, focusing on how women participated in and contributed to those. How did they assert their involvement, their claims and their aspirations? By what rationales and mechanisms were they excluded or their contribution marginalised? How did they react to structures that discriminated against them, eventually circumventing, subverting and transforming them? The present volume sheds light on new findings, gives unique insights and discusses methodological considerations in the budding field of women's manuscript studies.
Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean
Author: Philippa M. SteelePublisher:
ISBN: 1789258529
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas. This volume presents a group of papers by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. They focus on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it.
Studies in Ancient Persia and the Achaemenid Period
Author: John CurtisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 0227177061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
An important collection of eight essays on Ancient Persia (Iran) in the periods of the Achaemenid Empire (539-330 BC), when the Persians established control over the whole of the Ancient Near East, and later the Sasanian Empire. It will be of interest to historians, archaeologists and biblical scholars. Paul Collins writes about stone relief carvings from Persepolis; John Curtis and Christopher Walker illuminate the Achaemenid period in Babylon; Terence Mitchell, Alan Millard and Shahrokh Razmjou draw attention to neglected aspects of biblical archaeology and the books of Daniel and Isaiah; and Mahnaz Moazami and Prudence Harper explore the Sasanian period in Iran (AD 250-650) when Zoroastrianism became the state religion.
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