Mesopotamia

ISBN: 9780903472296
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Series: Ivories from Nimrud
Volume: VII
The Lost Art of the Phoenicians
Fifty years have passed since the British School of Archaeology in Iraq raised the last ivory from the soil of Fort Shalmaneser. Literally thousands were found, many of which have already been p... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781575061733
Published by : Eisenbrauns
The corpus of Early Dynastic figurative monuments from ancient Mesopotamia is substantial. Having established the chronological sequence through an examination of the archaeological contexts of the excavated pieces and the analysis of their ins... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780897570848
Published by : American Schools of Oriental Research
Series: JCS Supplement Series
This volume publishes and discusses 186 cuneiform documents from the Late Old Babylonian period (1683-1595 B.C.), including 95 hand copies, mostly from Sippar texts in British Museum collections. The Late O.B. epoch marks the last... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780903472289
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase zà-mí-zu dug-ga-àm 'Your praise is sweet' is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literature... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923684
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE SEMINARS
Volume: 6
The concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, is found in all ancient cultures, but was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively in... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783895006708
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: Frankfurter Archaologische Schriften
Volume: 8
A catalogue of some 130 objects in the collection of the Institute for the Archaeology and Cultural History of the Near East at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, mostly Luristan and Amlash bronzes, three items from Hacilar, 40... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900310
Published by : Sidestone Press
Throughout history, climate change has been an important driving force behind human behaviour. This archaeological study seeks to understand the complex interrelations between that behaviour and climatic fluctuations, focussing on how climate ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783895004858
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Between 1931 and 1939, Arnold Nöldeke directed the German excavations at Uruk-Warka in southern Iraq, which are under the direction of the German Archaeological Institute. Uruk-Warka, one of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia, was occupied without... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503522913
Published by : Brepols
This collective work presents the preliminary results of excavations undertaken by the Canadian archaeological mission to Tell Acharneh, Syria in 1998, 1999, and 2002, as well as the results of a study season of excavated materials carried out ... .... Learn More