http://www.etana.org/abzu Updates from the ABZU bibliography. A guide related to information to the study of the Ancient Near East on the Web. http://www.etana.org. en-us Copyright 2005 ETANA 2009-7-2T21:05:59+00:00 daily 1 2004-01-01T12:00:00+00:00 http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21616 "Seit Herbst 2008 existiert am Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ein durch die LMU-Exzellenzinitiative gefördertes Projekt zur archäologischen Erforschung Nordirans. Im Rahmen dieses Projektes werden in enger Kooperation mit iranischen Kollegen seit dem Frühling 2009 gemeinsame iranisch-deutsche Ausgrabungen in Gohar Tepe durchgeführt. Geleitet werden die Grabungen vor Ort durch Ali Mahfroozi von der Cultural Heritage Organisation der Provinz Mazandaran und Dr. Christian Piller vom Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie der LMU München" (Added to ABZU: 2009-07-02 13:02:59) Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21615 (Added to ABZU: 2009-07-02 12:04:38) vander Aa http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21614 "Cuneiform writing was invented some 5000 years ago in southern Iraq for the purpose of keeping accounts — and for the next few hundred years book-keeping remained its sole use. The last datable cuneiform tablet, also from southern Iraq, is an astronomical diary for the year 75 CE. For the three millennia spanning the rise and fall of cuneiform writing, and arguably for some time after, numeracy was an inseparable and essential part of literate culture throughout the Middle East.While the vast majority of cuneiform tablets contain numerical data, written by professional scribes, a smaller number are the outcome of teaching, learning, or communicating mathematical techniques or ideas as part of scribal education. This website presents transliterations and translations of around a thousand published cuneiform mathematical tablets; a similar number await decipherment and analysis in museums around the world." (Added to ABZU: 2009-07-02 11:30:06) The Cuneiform Digital Library http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21613 " Libyan museums are hardly known outside Libya and rarely listed in or covered by any of the specialist publications and organisations. Despite being the home of one of the most valued museums in the world, namely Assaraya Alhamra Museum, for its unique collection of artifacts dating from the Stone Age to the present day, Libyan museums still remain in total darkness. To this day, not a single museum has a website.It is for these reasons that Temehu.com has decided to build Libya’s first online museum, to allow people, students and researchers from all over the world, most of whom can not visit the country, a free access to this unique treasure. Temehu’s Online Museum was therefore created to collect information and photos and make them available online free of charge. You can access all the galleries and notes directly from the above menu without the need for registration. Any reviews, articles, photos or feedback will be greatly appreciated.Although Temehu’s Online Museum is still in its early stages, we have plans to include detailed reviews and analysis of all the museums of Libya, a photo gallery about the whole country, organised by town, a video gallery, Libyan jewellery & traditional crafts gallery, and prehistoric art galleries (some of which are currently live at Wadi Matkhandoush and Prehistoric Art ). All photos are copyright protected and never been published before. Copying or using these photos without prior permission or without proper linking and credit is strictly illegal. Please follow our instructions for further information..." (Added to ABZU: 2009-07-02 11:24:08) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21612 (Added to ABZU: 2009-07-02 08:09:27) Foreign Language Technology Center, Wayne State University http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21611 (Added to ABZU: 2009-07-01 14:43:08) Université de Genève, Unité de langues et de civilisations de la Mésopotamie http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21610 (Added to ABZU: 2009-07-01 14:38:56) Université de Genève, Unité de langues et de civilisations de la Mésopotamie http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21609 "Until recently, the South Caucasus was a virtual terra incognita on Western archaeological maps of southwest Asia. The conspicuous absence of marked places — of site names, toponyms, and topography — gave the impression of a region distant, unknown, and vacant. The Joint American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies (Project ArAGATS) was founded in 1998 to explore this terrain. Our investigations were guided by two overarching goals: to illuminate the social and political transformations central to the region’s unique (pre)history and to explore the broader intellectual implications of collaboration between the rich archaeological traditions of Armenia (former U.S.S.R.) and the United States.This volume provides the first encompassing report on the ongoing studies of Project ArAGATS, detailing the general context of contemporary archaeological research in the South Caucasus as well as the specific context of our regional investigations in the Tsaghkahovit Plain of central Armenia. The book opens with detailed examinations of the history of archaeology in the South Caucasus, the theoretical problems that currently orient archaeological research, and a comprehensive reevaluation of the material bases for regional chronology and periodization.The work then provides the complete results of our regional investigations in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, including the findings of the first systematic pedestrian survey ever conducted in the Caucasus. Thanks to the results presented in this volume, and Project ArAGATS’s ongoing excavations in the area, the Tsaghkahovit Plain is today the best-known archaeological region in the South Caucasus. The present volume thus provides archaeologists with both an orientation to the prehistory of the South Caucasus and the complete findings of the first phase of Project ArAGATS’s field investigations." (Added to ABZU: 2009-07-01 08:11:06) The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21608 " The Naxçıvan Archaeological Projectincrease font sizedecrease font sizeWelcome to the Naxçıvan Archaeological Project, the first ever joint American-Azerbaijani program of surveys and excavations. Since 2006, Lauren Ristvet (University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Vəli Baxşəliyev (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Naxçıvan) and Dr. Səfər Aşurov (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku), along with their colleagues and students have investigated the long term history of this fascinating region. The Naxçıvan Autonomous Republic is part of Azerbaijan, but is separated geographically from the rest of the country, bordered on the south and west by Iran and Turkey (the Araxes/Aras River marks the boundary) and on the north and east by Armenia. This region is 5,363 km² (2070 square miles) making it roughly the size of Delaware. Naxçivan’s position on the north-eastern frontier of Greater Mesopotamia makes it an ideal place to study the interaction of steppe/nomadic societies, indigenous village societies and external empires (particularly Urartu and Achaemenid Persia). We are also interested in investigating the nature of political complexity in the Caucasus, as an important counterpoint to the better known political trajectories of Mesopotamia, Iran and the Levant..." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-30 13:04:20) University of Pennsylvania Museum http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21607 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:48:44) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21606 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:47:10) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21605 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:44:49) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21604 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:42:27) Propylaeum-DOK http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21603 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:40:24) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21602 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:38:10) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21601 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:36:33) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21600 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:34:17) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21599 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:32:48) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21598 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:31:15) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21597 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:29:39) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21596 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:26:55) Propylaeum-DOK http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21595 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:24:09) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21594 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:22:35) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21593 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:21:03) Propylaeum-DOK http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21592 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:19:17) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21591 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:17:38) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21590 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:15:49) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21589 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:14:04) Propylaeum-DOK http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21588 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:12:41) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21587 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:10:58) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21586 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:09:36) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21585 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 14:07:56) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21584 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 08:19:08) SOAS Research Online http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21583 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-29 08:17:06) SOAS Research Online http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21581 "The permission to undertake archaeological fieldwork in Egypt is granted by the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt. It is stipulated that missions submit a report on each season of work. The reports produced for the Nile Delta of Egypt: Kom Firin project are made available here.Please note that these reports are preliminary in nature, and have not been modified from their original form. Therefore, conclusions and interpretations in earlier reports may have been revised. However, making the reports available online allows scholars and other interested persons to see the latest results of excavations, as final publication can take many years." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-26 15:37:05) TRhe British Museum http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21580 "Kom Firin is an extensive archaeological mound located near the western edge of the Nile Delta in Egypt, an area where little fieldwork has been undertaken. This area has never been the subject of intensive archaeological investigation before and the project has used a combination of geophysical survey and excavation to research aspects of the site’s history..." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-26 15:35:11) TRhe British Museum http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21579 "The ancient scholia are the earliest recorded scholarship on ancient Greek authors. They were notes on words and passages that caused trouble for later readers, and included everything from simple explanation of odd vocabulary, to grammar notes or more extended notes explaining history and customs. While originally kept in separate books, most come to us as notes written in the margins surrounding the main text (see Venetus A for an example). Modern students of classical languages are still familiar with the practice of scholia. Many of our textbooks follow a very similar pattern, and not just for Ancient Greek and Latin.This wiki is intended as a way for people to share their own scholia on classical works. I have written some software extending the functionality of the wiki with markup to make word and phrase annotation easy and natural." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-26 14:02:03) scholiastae.org http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21578 "I hope to make available public domain materials that are essential for the study of ancient and early modern mathematics and mathematical astronomy. Google, for example, has done some things to achieve this through its books.google.com project. However, like most other efforts at digitally copying non digital materials, "mistakes were made". For example, Google currently has several (all incomplete) versions of Teubner’s’s edition of Euclid available for download. Most of these unfortunately contain page after page that are illegible, missing, out of order or otherwise unusable. * Most of the works available here were made by repairing the imperfect Google scans. This repairing has taken the form of replacing illegible or missing pages of one Google text with readable pages from another Google scan of the same text, splicing together readable portions of pages with Photoshop, replacing missing pages with scans from a local library, and replacing missing pages with transcriptions in TeX, a mathematical typesetting software, from copies that are too brittle to scan * Other sources of texts include the Digital Library of India [DLI] , the former Sansknet project, the Gallica website, as well as privately owned public domain material..." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-25 12:21:05) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21577 From Intute: "Compiled by Timothy J. Moore of the Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin, this ancient music bibliography is a themed online bibliography (which, at the time of reviewing, had last been updated in 2008) that lists books and papers, of relevance to the classics or music student, interested in the study of music from Ancient Greece or Rome. Specific sections cover various elements of music making, including: singing and speaking; the voice; rhythm; and musical instruments, such as strings, auloi/tibiae, extant pipes, auletai/tibicines, and kroupezai/scabellum. There are also sections on music on: the Greek and Roman stage; Livy VII.2, the origins of Roman theatre, and the performance of ’cantica’; Plautus and Terence; music in art; dance; music, education and ethics; the Carmina Convivalia; and Byzantine music. The majority of the works listed here are written in English, although there are several in German, French and Italian." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-25 12:17:15) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21576 "I intend the following bibliography to serve as an aid to the student of Jewish “magic,”however defined. It ranges from biblical to modern times and is organized bothchronologically and by subject with many entries appearing in multiple locations tofacilitate research. My former undergraduate student Alex Jassen (now an AssistantProfessor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University ofMinnesota) originally compiled the bibliography with the assistance of a Mary GatesUndergraduate Research Grant at the University of Washington. More recently, mygraduate student Jacob Rennaker has helped to correct incomplete information and toreformat the bibliography. I now maintain and update the site..." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-25 04:16:30) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21575 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-23 15:10:47) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21574 "Obwohl karisch-geometrische Keramik von C. Özgünel schon 1979 erforscht und recherchiert wurde, nahm die Anzahl der Funde erst danach stark zu, da die Raub- und Notgrabungen sich erst danach deutlich vermehrt haben. Die meisten Funde, die vor allem aus Damlibogaz stammen, wurden durch die Behörden beschlagnahmt (kommen durch Beschlagnahmung der Funde von Behörden), so dass wir über ihre Fundkomplexe nichts erfahren können. Die Funde von Damlibogaz, des wichtigsten Fundorts Kariens der geometrischen Periode, waren bisher kaum bekannt. So können wir erst jetzt von einigen geometrischen Funden in den verschiedensten Museen und Sammlungen der Welt sowie im Kunsthandel genauer sagen, dass sie aus Damlibogaz kommen, dessen Nekropole seit Anfang der 80er Jahre regelmäßig geplündert wurde. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt auch, dass die karische Keramik vielfältiger ist, als man bisher annahm. Hauptsächlich die Formen der Kratere und Oinochoen zeigen große Unterschiede untereinander. So sehen wir z.B., dass die Kolonettenkratere, die bisher als Erfindung der korinthischen Künstler galt, mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit von Karern erfunden und von dort in Korinth übernommen wurde. Auch der Kelchkrater, der als Erfindung attischer Töpfer, genauer gesagt von Exekias galt, war schon in der spätgeometrischen Periode in Karien bekannt und zwar mit unterschiedlichen Fuß und Henkelformen. Dies kann man trotz der wenig zahlreichen Funde feststellen. Die Ornamente und Ornamentsysteme bestehen weitgehend aus bereits bekannten Verzierungen. Nur wenige Ornamente sind nachgewiesen worden, die bisher unbekannt waren. Die Ornamente zeigen, dass die Karer mit verschiedenen Städten der antiken Welt in Kontakt standen. Interessant ist, dass man an den Funden aus Karien grob drei verschiedene Charaktere erkennen kann. Die Halbinsel von Halikarnassos scheint mehr Verbindungen zu anderen Orten gehabt zu haben, was sich aufgrund der Funde vermuten lässt, die mehr nach Vorbildern anderer Fundorte wie Attika gemacht sind, während die Funde von Damlibogaz und Umgebung einheimische Besonderheiten zeigen. Die Funde aus dem Inneren Kariens erinnern an die phrygische Ordnung, obwohl die Ornamente weitgehend aus bekannten geometrischen Ornamenten bestehen. Da die Fundumstände der Neufunde unbekannt waren, haben sie für die Datierung der geometrischen Keramik kaum neue Anhaltspunkte gebracht, waren aber bei der chronologischen Anordnung der Funde sehr hilfreich, so dass wir die Funde jetzt in eine relative Reihenfolge bringen können." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-22 15:30:22) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21573 "Mit diesem Dissertationsprojekt erfolgt erstmals eine regional übergreifende Untersuchung der spätklassischen und hellenistischen Wand- und Deckenmalereien des nord- und westpontischen Raumes. Die Grundlage der Arbeit bildet ein Katalog sämtlicher heute bekannter Wandmalereien der o. g. Region und Epoche. Der Katalog enthält neben ausführlichen Beschreibungen ebenfalls Angaben zu Fundort und -umständen, zur Datierung, zum Aufbewahrungsort, zum Erhaltungszustand sowie zur typologischen Einordnung und zu eventuellen Vergleichsbeispielen der einzelnen Malereien. Basierend auf der Untersuchung des Wandaufbaus wird eine Typologie der Malereien erstellt, mit deren Hilfe eine Unterscheidung in vier Typen unterschiedlicher Dekorationssysteme möglich ist. Es schließt sich die Analyse der ornamentalen und figuralen Malerei bezüglich ihrer stilistischen und ikonographischen Ausführung an. Hierbei werden die jeweiligen lokalen Charakteristika besonders herausgestellt. Über Vergleiche mit Malereien anderer Regionen, besonders Griechenlands und Parthiens, erfolgt eine Eingliederung der Malereien des Schwarzmeerraumes in das Gesamtbild der hellenistischen Malerei. Als wesentliches Charakteristikum sowohl nord- als auch westpontischer Malereien kristallisiert sich die Verwendung künstlerischer Einflüsse, Motive und Elemente unterschiedlicher regionaler Herkunft heraus. Die nord- und westpontischen Maler übernehmen jene jedoch nicht in deren ursprünglichem Erscheinungsbild und inhaltlicher Bedeutung, sondern wandeln sie entsprechend ihren auf lokalen Vorstellungen und künstlerischen Traditionen beruhenden Bedürfnissen ab und kombinieren sie mit einheimischen Motiven und Elementen anderer Regionen. Auf diese Weise erschließen sich dem Betrachter im nord- und westpontischen Raum Malereien, die während der spätklassischen und hellenistischen Zeit in ihrem Erscheinungsbild einzigartig sind. Die Freiheit im Umgang mit fremden Einflüssen, einem wesentlichen Charakteristikum hellenistischer Kunstäußerungen Griechenlands, Italiens, Kleinasiens, Alexandriens u. a., vereint die west- und nordpontischen Wand- bzw. Deckenmalereien wiederum mit der hellenistischen Malerei o. g. Regionen." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-22 15:28:06) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21572 "Die Untersuchung ist eine Analyse der sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Situation von Frauen im Alten Reich bis zum Ende der 1. Zwischenzeit (ca. 2960 bis 2040 v. Chr.) des Alten Ägypten. Grundlage hierfür sind Quellen wie Reliefs und Texte der Grabanlagen und Grabbeigaben sowie Verwaltungsdokumente, die unter einer differenzierteren Sichtweise interpretiert werden, in der die Bedeutung des Geschlechts (gender) im Vordergrund steht." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-22 15:25:32) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21571 "Während der Grabungen von W. M. F. Petrie in der Nekropole von Dandara am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts fand er unter anderem auch zahlreiche Grabstelen mit demotischen Inschriften. Wenige andere wurden durch spätere Grabungen bekannt.Die Stelen sind heute weltweit über diverse Museen und Sammlungen verstreut. Einige finden sich in Museumskatalogen, abr die meisten sind bis heute nur in Petrie’s Publikation aus dem Jahre 1900 bekannt. Die vorliegende Monongraphie versammelt zum ersten Male alle derzeit bekannten demotischen Grabstelen aus Dandara. Sie wurden hinsichtlich der Ikonographie, aber auch der Klassifizierung der Texte untersucht, dabei sind sämtliche Inschriften, teilweise zum ersten Mal, vollständig übersetzt und kommentiert worden. Alle Stelen können dabei in die frührömische Zeit datiert werden.Dieses Manuskipt wurde während der Arbeit des Autors am Köln/ Leuvener Projekt Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Graeco-Roman Egypt für die demotischen epigraphischen Quellen erstellt.During the excavations of W. M. F. Petrie in the necropolis of Dandara at the end of the 19th century, he also found several tomb stelae with demotic inscriptions. A few other funerary stelae appeared form some later excavations.These objects are now spread worldwide over several museums and collections. Some appeared in museums catalogues, but most of them are mentioned only in Petrie’s publication from the year 1900. The actual publication collects for the first time all known demotic tombs stelae from the necropolis of Dandara. Fields of interest were the iconography as well as the classification of the inscriptions. All texts are, often for the first time, completely translated and commented. The stelae can dated to the Early Roman Period.This manuscript was prepared duing the author’s reserarch in the Cologne/ Leuven project Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Graeco-Roman Egypt concerning the epigraphic records in demotic language." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-21 11:49:16) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21570 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-21 11:43:35) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21569 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-21 11:42:32) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21568 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-21 11:41:38) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21567 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-21 11:39:27) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21566 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-21 07:11:08) Norman Golb http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21565 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-21 06:59:30) Norman Golb http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21564 "Welcome to the Late Old Babylonian Personal Names Index. This searchable file of personal names derives from cuneiform texts chiefly dating to the reigns of the last three kings of the First Dynasty of Babylon, 1683-1595 B.C. Version 1 indexes 13,573 unique attestations of personal names from almost 3,000 texts, including 4,678 entries from around 700 unpublished texts..." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-21 06:50:01) The Oriental Institute http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21563 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-21 06:42:54) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21562 Keywords: Late Uruk Period, proto-cuneiform, slavery, personal names (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-20 17:19:15) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21561 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-19 10:47:18) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21560 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-19 10:46:30) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21559 "Die Indogermanische Gesellschaft ist eine inter­na­tio­na­le wis­sen­schaft­liche Or­ga­ni­sa­tion zur För­de­rung des Stu­diums der in­do­ger­ma­ni­schen Spra­chen und der in­do­ger­ma­ni­schen bzw. histo­risch-ver­glei­chen­den Sprach­wis­sen­schaft." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-18 12:44:22) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21558 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-18 12:34:30) American Research Center in Sofia http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21557 "Syria, qui paraît depuis 1920 sans interruption, est publiée par l’Institut Français du Proche-Orient, en une seule livraison annuelle. La revue se consacre à l’histoire et l’archéologie du Proche-Orient sémitique (y compris Chypre) de la préhistoire à la conquête islamique. Elle publie des articles dans toutes les disciplines de ce champ de recherche, archéologie, épigraphie, philologie, histoire, histoire de l’art ; ces articles peuvent être quelquefois regroupés en dossiers thématiques, mais le plus souvent chaque volume tente de donner, à travers 12 à 18 articles, un panorama varié de la recherche au Proche-Orient ancien. Les langues employées sont le français, l’anglais, l’allemand, l’italien et l’espagnol. Tous les articles sont précédés d’un résumé en français, en anglais et en arabe. La revue publie aussi à l’occasion de courtes notes d’actualité, et consacre dans chaque numéro un épais cahier aux recensions d’ouvrages parus sur le Proche-Orient ancien." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-17 10:57:40) Persée, le portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21556 Mètis est née d’une collaboration entre hellénistes grecs et français, autour des orientations de Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet et Nicole Loraux, dans le Centre de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes (devenu Louis-Gernet). Dans la perspective d’une anthropologie historique centrée sur l’antiquité grecque, elle s’est récemment élargie à l’étude des mondes anciens, en particulier grec et romain. Tout en intégrant les disciplines érudites (philologie, histoire, archéologie, épigraphie, etc.), elle s’applique à prendre en compte des apports des sciences sociales (ethnologie, sociologie, linguistique, psychologie, psychanalyse). Soucieuse de refléter les avancées de la réflexion scientifique, elle accueille jeunes chercheurs et savants confirmés, dont les travaux concourent à diversifier les données, renouveler les objets et les méthodes d’analyse, afin d’enrichir les connaissances relatives aux mondes anciens. (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-17 10:53:24) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21555 "ANMED, one of the annual periodicals by Suna & İnan Kıraç Research Institute on Mediterranean Civilisations, has been published bilingual in Turkish and English in Antalya since 2003.Within the frame of the Institute’s foundation goals and priorities, the preliminary annual reports of excavations, surveys, restoration-conservation projects and other archaeological works by scientific missions undertaken in the region identified as Anatolia’s Mediterranean Areas, that is encompassing ancient Lycia, Pamphylia, Cilicia and Pisidia, constitute the scope of ANMED." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-16 13:09:56) Suna and İnan Kıraç Research Institute on Mediterranean Civilisations http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21554 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-16 11:29:59) New York University http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21553 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-16 08:53:20) Ministère de la Culture, Direction Générale des Antiquités et des Musées http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21552 "In 1970 UNESCO adopted a convention intended to stem the flow of looted antiquities from developing countries to collections in art-importing countries. The majority of art-importing countries, including Britain, Germany, and Japan, refused to join the Convention. Contrary to other art-importing countries, and reversing its own traditionally-liberal policy, the United States accepted the international regulation of antiquities and joined the UNESCO Convention. The article seeks to explain why the United States chose to establish controls on antiquities, to the benefit of foreign countries facing archaeological plunder and to the detriment of the US art market. I argue that the concern of US policymakers about looting abroad resulted from a series of scandals which exposed the involvement of American museums and collectors with looted material. Advocacy efforts of American archaeologists also played a key role in educating policymakers about the loss of historical knowledge caused by looting and the necessity of regulation. The article further analyzes how antiquities dealers and certain museums lobbied Congress against implementing the UNESCO Convention and why Congress decided in favor of implementation as an act of international moral leadership. Following the analysis of the Congressional battle, I examine how the US debate over looted antiquities has evolved to the present. The article concludes with implications for the role of values versus interests in international law." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-15 13:06:44) NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21551 "Études Balkaniques est consacrée aux recherches interdisciplinaires sur les mondes hellénique et balkanique dans une perspective diachronique. La revue publie un numéro thématique annuel regroupant des contributions de spécialistes internationaux. Elle comprend également une section destinée à des travaux proposés par de jeunes chercheurs. La revue a été fondée en 1994 par l’Association Pierre Belon, qui regroupe des historiens, pour beaucoup, à l’époque, membres du Centre d’Etudes byzantines, post-byzantines et sud-est européennes de l’EHESS. La revue reçoit le soutien de l’École française d’Athènes." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-13 07:38:11) Association Pierre Belon, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21550 "Founded in 1978, the Ancient India & Iran Trust occupies a unique postition in the UK. We are the only independent charity concerned with the study of early India, Iran & Central Asia, promoting both scholarly research & popular interest in the area. We have a library of over 25,000 volumes and organise a range of activities including conferences, public lectures and visiting fellowships. Our primary interest has been in prehistory, archaeology, art history and ancient languages, but this often extends to more modern topics and other disciplines.The idea of the Ancient India & Iran Trust came to the Founding Trustees when they became aware that the Indian sub-continent, together with Iran, Afghanistan & parts of Central Asia, was the ’neglected quarter’ of the world in terms of British cultural life. Britain had had a close association with India in particular for over three centuries and had unrivalled resources for the study of its culture, art and history, in the India Office Library, the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum and much more. And yet, in the wake of South Asian independence, there were very few institutions, teaching posts or funds devoted to the promotion of popular or scholarly interest in any of these regions. The Trust was therefore set up to provide a focal point where scholars and members of the public with interests in the cultures of the ancient Indian and Iranian worlds could meet and discuss matters of common interest and use its unique library..." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-11 09:33:53) Ancient India and Iran Trust http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21549 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-10 04:55:59) The Virtual Museum of Iraq http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21548 "The ancient Egyptian practice of dedicating small objects to deities as a means of establishing a lasting, personal relationship between deity and donor is well known. The dedication of votive objects in sacred areas such as temples, shrines, and cemeteries was an optional practice for which there is sporadic archaeological evidence. Large deposits of Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom votive offerings have been recovered from numerous sites throughout Egypt. There is no clear Middle Kingdom evidence that people were allowed to dedicate votive offerings in state-run temples, but the practice seems to have remained part of popular religion and is most visible in funerary contexts. During the New Kingdom, it became permissible for individuals to set up stelae or leave small votive objects in the outer areas of state temples or in special shrines. Most of the small votive offerings were made to Hathor, or related goddesses. In the Late and Ptolemaic Periods many stelae, ritual objects, and figures of deities were dedicated in sacred areas, often in relation to animal cults. The majority of votive objects seem to have been made in temple workshops for cult purposes. Most of the offerings fall into three main categories: representations of deities, objects used in the temple cult, or objects associated with human fertility. Both women and men dedicated votive objects to reinforce prayers or to perpetuate their involvement in a divine cult. It is rarely possible to be certain exactly why a particular object was offered or where it was originally displayed. Old votive objects remained sacred and were buried or dumped within temple precincts." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-09 12:08:59) eScholarship at California Digital Library http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21547 "Egyptian religion is characterized by a remarkable degree of continuity, but changes did nevertheless occur in the religious sphere from time to time. One often-cited instance of such a change is the so-called democratization or demotization of the afterlife in the First Intermediate Period. This study examines the evidence for the development in question, concluding that no such change actually took place, albeit not for the reasons advanced by others who have arrived at the same conclusion previously. Based on the results obtained in the examination of this particular problem, a number of general points are then made about the methodology to be employed in the study of religious change in ancient Egypt as a whole." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-09 12:06:49) eScholarship at California Digital Library http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21546 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-08 14:17:50) Istituto di Studi sulle civiltà italiche e del Mediterraneo antico http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21545 "Since 1990 Archeologia e Calcolatori has been an international observatory on theoretical and methodological aspects of computing and information technology applied to archaeology.Some peculiar aspects characterise the journal in the international panorama: the multilingualism, the dialectical relationship between theory and experimentation, the continuous bibliographical updating, and finally the evaluation of techniques and methods through tangible archaeological results.Periodical publication of special thematic issues and conference proceedings allows readers to appreciate the ongoing evolution of the archaeologist’s approach to generate and spread digital information as applied when reconstructing the past." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-08 14:10:56) Istituto di Studi sulle civiltà italiche e del Mediterraneo antico http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21544 "The aim of this paper is two-fold: first, to analyze some normative aspects of metrological and numerical notations in mathematical cuneiform texts; second, to examine issues raised by modern conventions of transliterations." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-08 09:44:32) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21540 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-06 07:11:13) International Society for Arabic Papyrology http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21539 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-05 15:26:06) Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21538 (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-05 15:24:52) Instituto "San José de Calasanz" de Pedagogía http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21537 "Open Scriptures seeks to be a comprehensive open-source Web repository for integrated scriptural data and a general application framework for building internationalized social applications of scripture. An abundance of scriptural resources are now available online—manuscripts, translations, and annotations are all being made available by students and scholars alike at an ever-increasing rate. These diverse scriptural resources, however, are isolated from each other and fragmented across the Internet. Thus mashing up the available data into new scriptural applications is not currently possible for the community at large because the resources’ interrelationships are not systematically documented. Open Scriptures aims to establish a scriptural database for interlinked textual resources such as merged manuscripts, the differences among them, and the links between their semantic units and the semantic units of their translations. With such a foundation in place, derived scriptural data like cross-references may be stored in a translation-neutral and internationalized manner so as to be accessible to the community no matter what language they speak or version they prefer." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-04 09:46:50) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21536 "Poulos explores the intersections of militarism, nationalism, and feminism, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She argues that the essentially ambiguous nationalist imagery of a woman warrior has not been entirely efficient in the women’s emancipation agenda. The result is "an ambitious, interesting, and successful dissertation."" (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-03 11:19:37) Gutenberg-e http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21535 "This is an eclectical list of catalogues of libraries and private collections housing Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts, as found in library collections. It goes without saying that the primus inter pares of catalogues is the card catalogue at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Nonetheless, older catalogues remain valuable. The present list has made extensive use of earlier guides and compilations, mainly Pearson’s Oriental Manuscripts and Gabrieli’s Manoscritti e carte orientali, and it should be updated in view of Richler’s Guide to Hebrew Manuscript Collections as it was compiled in 1992. However, it is only intended as a source of information to be used alongside Richler’s invaluable guide. This list is not intended for publication. Thanks are due to prof. dr. W. Baars and to prof. dr. J.C. de Moor for their kind and valuable suggestions. The entries have been distributed according to nation and location. Catalogues covering more than one library are listed separately, with references in the entry of the location. Due to the eclectic nature, as well as slow growth of this list, there are many bibliographical inconsistencies to be noted, for which I apologise." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-03 07:44:33) http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21534 "Les Étrusques et le christianisme : les deux mondes sembleraient de prime abord n’avoir rien de commun. Pourtant, la doctrine étrusque offrait des vues sur l’au-delà, affirmait se fonder sur la révélation de prophètes et était consignée dans des livres sacrés, traits qui ont repris de l’importance face à la montée du christianisme.Cet ouvrage étudie la rencontre entre ces deux univers religieux et montre que la vieille religion étrusque a offert aux Romains païens une alternative par rapport au christianisme, ce qui explique son paradoxal regain de vitalité dans les derniers siècles de l’Empire romain." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-02 10:52:26) Éditions Rue d’Ulm/Presses de l’École normale supérieure http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21533 "Une étude d’histoire et d’archéologie consacrée aux peuplades gauloises d’Italie du Nord entre les débuts de la conquête romaine (bataille de Sentinum, en 295) et l’octroi de la citoyenneté romaine complète à tous les Cisalpins (49 avant J.C.)." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-02 10:50:38) Éditions Rue d’Ulm/Presses de l’École normale supérieure http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21532 "Depuis la thèse monumentale que René Cagnat consacra à l’armée romaine d’Afrique, et dont la deuxième édition remonte à 1913, bien des découvertes ont été faites, de nombreuses fouilles effectuées et d’importants travaux réalisés. Dans cet ouvrage, plus de 350 titres ont été rassemblés, classés et, au besoin, analysés. Ce livre, destiné aussi bien à ceux qu’intéresse l’armée romaine qu’à ceux qui travaillent sur l’Afrique, se termine par des indices (auteurs, noms de lieux anciens et modernes) et par 7 cartes. " (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-02 10:48:37) Éditions Rue d’Ulm/Presses de l’École normale supérieure http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21531 "Publié par l’Équipe de Recherche 207 du CNRS, ce cahier expose les résultats des fouilles conduites dans le complexe fortifié de Jublains, en Mayenne (R. Rebuffat), sur le site du camp romain d’Arlaines (M. Reddé), près de Soissons, nouvellement redécouvert (M. Reddé), et identifie le « pseudo-camp » des auxiliaires de Lambèse avec un terrain d’exercices militaires (Y. Le Bohec)." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-02 10:47:14) Éditions Rue d’Ulm/Presses de l’École normale supérieure http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21530 "Au XIIe siècle on assiste à l’épanouissement de la mythologie gréco-latine dans la littérature, lié entre autres au développement d’une littérature en langue vernaculaire (et donc d’une culture profane) et à la relative tolérance de l’Église face aux survivances du paganisme. Mais outre la mythologie antique, la mythologie nordique constitue dans l’Occident médiéval un ensemble narratif cohérent." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-02 10:24:42) Éditions Rue d’Ulm/Presses de l’École normale supérieure http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21529 "La littérature latine et vernaculaire du Moyen ge offre un ensemble riche et cohérent de métamorphoses, qui puise dans les Métamorphoses d’Ovide. À travers elle, cet ouvrage tente d’étudier les jeux d’opposition entre christianisme et paganisme, culture savante et culture populaire, latin et langues vernaculaires." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-02 10:21:39) Éditions Rue d’Ulm/Presses de l’École normale supérieure http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21528 "À partir d’une documentation très variée (statues, monnaies et portraits peints, textes de rhéteurs, de poètes et de juristes) se dessinent les pratiques mises en ½uvre par les Romains pour représenter par l’image et fixer en même temps les cadres de l’interprétation." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-02 10:20:26) Éditions Rue d’Ulm/Presses de l’École normale supérieure http://www.etana.org/abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=21527 "À la fin de la République romaine, deux figures contrastées ont dominé la scène philosophique : Cicéron, Romain, et Philodème de Gadara, un Oriental hellénisé. Le rôle de Cicéron est bien connu, au moins comme historien de la philosophie ; celui de Philodème, le maître épicurien de la baie de Naples, commence seulement à l’être, depuis que sont réédités scientifiquement les textes transmis par les papyrus d’Herculanum." (Added to ABZU: 2009-06-02 10:17:50) Éditions Rue d’Ulm/Presses de l’École normale supérieure