Power in general and women's power in particular has been understood mostly in a hierarchical way in earlier research on Mesopotamian women. Hierarchical...
This book is an informative historical and ethnographic journey into the past and present of the lands that are now part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; a fascinating account of the customs, traditions...
Royal ideology played a very significant role in the constitution of ancient Near Eastern states, from Sumer, Akkad, and Ancient Egypt to the Assyrian, Babylonian,...
Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project - NATCP 2014
State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts. Volume X
Assyria's last great king Assurbanipal invested much time and effort ensuring that his accomplishments...
The Adapa myth is a literary work of ancient Mesopotamia with different versions in Sumerian and Akkadian. According to the Adapa myth, the sage and cook...
Publisher: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project - NATCP XXVI
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the image of "enemy" in Assyrian state ideology, based on royal titles attested in Assyrian documents...
The purpose of the papers read at the meeting held in Helsinki, Finland, in 2014, and of the relevant proceedings forming this volume, was to discuss and...
Egypt and Mesopotamia, two cradles of civilization, repeatedly came into contact with each other in antiquity. Interaction between Africa and Mesopotamia...
The present volume completes the critical edition of the political correspondence of Assurbanipal, the first part of which was published in SAA 21. The 163 letters...
Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam
Douglas R. Frayne and Johanna H. Stuckey, and with illustrations by Stephane D. Beaulieu
The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. State Archives of Assyria. Volume II. SAA. Volume XX
The internal stability and cohesion of the Neo-Assyrian Empire to a very considerable degree rested on the public...
This study identifies and analyzes Aramaic loanwords occurring in Neo-Assyrian texts between 911 and 612 B.C. As two Semitic languages, Neo-Assyrian and...
Who were the Umman-manda? This is a question that has vexed Assyriologists since the early days of the discipline, particularly because the question has...
Since the 1980s, projects such as the State Archives of Assyria have made great strides in the philological study of Neo-Assyrian inscriptional sources, producing text editions and hand-copies of administrative...
Although the impression may still linger that Assyrian women are hidden and unavailable for study, nothing could be farther from the truth. There is a rich...
State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts. Volume IX - SAACT 9
The Babylonian Theodicy is a lengthy dialogue between two learned men, the "Sufferer" and the "Friend," taking the form of an acrostic poem...
SAAS XXXIII
State Archives of Assyria Studies. Volume XXXIII
The title "Queen of the Arabs" is applied in Neo-Assyrian texts to five women from the Arabian Peninsula. These women led armies, offered...
Between 2016 and 2022, a team from the British Museum conducted excavations in the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, the sacred center of the state of Lagash. On an archaeological mound referred to as the...
State Archives of Assyria. Volume XXI
The first half of Assurbanipal's long reign (668-ca. 630 BCE) was a time of peace and great prosperity and political success for Assyria. But towards the middle of...
Comprehensive collection of ancient Akkadian literature spanning three millennia. This larger, completely new, 3rd edition contains many compositions not in the previous editions; new translations of previously...
This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary competence necessary...
Antiikin perintö on olennainen osa eurooppalaista sivistystä ja identiteettiä. Se on läsnä kielissä ja kulttuurissa, tieteissä ja taiteissa, arvoissa ja ajattelumalleissa sekä yhteiskunnan rakenteissa.
Вниманию читателей предлагается знаменитая трилогия академика Федора Ивановича Успенского, посвященной описанию тысячелетней истории Византийской империи, идеологию и самый дух которой после гибели Византии...
Большой подарок всем ценителям "Кембриджской истории древнего мира". Беспрецедентное для отечественного книжного рынка издание - авторитетный научно выверенный текст и шикарные иллюстрации.
Стiвен Фрай (нар. 1957 р.) - британський комедiйний актор, письменник, сценарист, телеведучий, режисер, найбiльшу популярнiсть здобув своїми ролями у телевiзiйних серiалах. Фрай також вiдомий як представник...
Самая древняя и загадочная цивилизация Древнего Египта до сих пор очаровывает и привлекает современного человека... Мумии, золото фараонов, пирамиды, храмы, боги, священные ритуалы и обряды древних египтян...
Современная версия отечественной истории полна умолчаний, несоответствий и противоречивых утверждений. Все чаще к такому выводу приходят независимые исследователи, пытаясь сопоставить события прошлого...
ИНОГДА ИСТОРИЯ НАС ПУГАЕТ, ИНОГДА - ШОКИРУЕТ, А ИНОГДА - УДИВЛЯЕТ. - Как рожали королевы и простые женщины. - Почему было выгодно иметь много детей. - Про самые распространенные болезни и как их...
Дружина з трьохсот спартанцiв на чолi з царем Леонiдом та кiлькатисячне вiйсько союзникiв вирушили до Термопiльського проходу, щоб бодай на якийсь час зупинити мiльйонне вiйсько перського царя. Усi вони...
This book introduces the evocative but largely unknown tradition of Samaritan religious poetry from late antiquity to a new audience. These verses provide a unique window into the Samaritan religious world...
The Torah Unabridged is a detailed examination of legal reasoning in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the exegetical operations by which biblical laws related to intermarriage were applied to circumstances...
Написанная (хотя в это трудно поверить) еще в конце XVIII века книга Иоганна Иоахима Винкельмана стала одним из первых сочинений по истории искусства и выдержала столько переизданий, что их трудно подсчитать....
Theban Tomb 188 is the sole archaeological site in the ancient Theban necropolis securely dated to the reign of the "heretic pharaoh" Akhenaten (1353-1336 BCE). The result of several years of clearance...
Автор множества популярных книг, в числе которых "Словарь английского фольклора" и "Британские драконы", редактор всемирно известного журнала "Фольклор" Жаклин Симпсон рассказывает об искусных стратегах,...
Самым обширным из государств, возникших на обломках империи Александра Великого, было "Азиатское царство". В науке его принято звать Сирийским, потому что центр этой державы находился именно в Сирии. На...
Storage jars of many shapes and sizes were in widespread use in the ancient world, transporting and storing agricultural products such as wine and oil, crucial to agriculture, economy, trade and subsistence....
This volume addresses the nexus of religion and geography in the ancient Near East through case studies of various time periods and regions. Using Sumerian, Akkadian,...
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