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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Dec 21, 2012 15:57:01 GMT -5
NASA and CNN take time to briefly refute the notion of the "Sumerian" planet Nibru (of course originally a Sitchin idea): Second clip down here
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Post by madness on Dec 21, 2012 20:58:15 GMT -5
The fact that the world did not end yesterday is proof enough.
(and also that nēberu is an Akkadian word [for Jupiter!], not a Sumerian word)
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Post by sheshki on Dec 22, 2012 13:08:32 GMT -5
Uruk – 5000 years of the megacity
For a while now, we have been working on several reconstructions for the Uruk Visualisation Project. On our website you will find examples from the Late Uruk Period as well as the Seleucid Period. Besides that, we visualised the ziggurat of the Ur-III Period as well as the famous White Temple, the Stone-Cone Building and the Sin-kashid Palace. Currently, we are working on two new Uruk-related restitutions that we will write about soon.... blog.artefacts-berlin.de/?p=270
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Post by enkur on Jan 7, 2013 14:48:39 GMT -5
sumer2sargon.blogspot.com/p/history.htmlThis is the history page of that site with the Sumerian soldiers, which I find worthwhile reading as for getting a general notion of the Sumerian history. What I can't get in certain of these military scenes running through the site, is the presence of the biblical ark of testament therein
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Post by sheshki on Jan 23, 2013 2:24:37 GMT -5
In a mail from Mr. Sasson was this anouncment of a new book. The description made me giggle,but have a look for yourself, i highlighted the fun parts just in case "Naira Creswick sets out to fight the demons that stalk her. With Gemini and the other kids living in an abandoned factory, she learns what makes these demons tick. When her brother Ed returns from Iraq, the ancient tablet he brings draws her into a world that is awakening from a two-thousand-year-long sleep. Naira knows this tablet holds the key to destroying the demons-- if she can learn its language and master its mathematical magic. She must hurry: disasters strike and the demons grow stronger. Naira has to use all her wit and imagination to hold her troubled family together as she unlocks the Tablet of Heavenly Secrets." www.amazon.com/Creswick-Tablet-Heavenly-Secrets-Volume/dp/0615735479/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358872038&sr=8-1&keywords=Naira+Creswick+%26+the+Tablet+of+Heavenly+Secrets
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Post by Šarraku on Jan 29, 2013 20:05:03 GMT -5
I stumbled upon this site by a Assyriology student in Finland; it has a few essays, guides, and even a Babylonian verb parser that can be downloaded (although apparently it's not complete yet--there are a few aspects missing). A pretty good resource for newbies, I'd say. www.ling.helsinki.fi/~asahala/index.html
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Feb 1, 2013 14:09:47 GMT -5
Šarraku - Thanks very much for pointing this out! I remember seeing Aleksi Sahala's page years ago but this is the first time I've been back to see some of the great resources he has come up with. Certainly this cross training in linguistics, programming and Assyriology has resulted in some wonderful tools for Akkadian learners. I have downloaded the verb parser and am experimenting with it - its difficult to figure out the system for signifying long vowels and so on, yet the tool has alot of potential. Even if just used as a quick reference tool, you can instantly pull up something like 1900 Akkadian verbs by searching by the English equivolent. Will have to send an email to co-students about this. So we owe you one
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Post by madness on Feb 6, 2013 3:33:44 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone has brought this up before, but hosted on the UPenn site: oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/Is a list and fairly in-depth description of each important God and Goddess. Probably should use this (and not Wikipedia) from now on.
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Post by sheshki on Feb 6, 2013 13:25:52 GMT -5
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Feb 6, 2013 23:56:32 GMT -5
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Post by sheshki on Feb 7, 2013 8:46:16 GMT -5
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Post by sheshki on Feb 7, 2013 13:40:03 GMT -5
Yesterday while i was looking through CDLI i found a link. It was called "The One Hundred Most Important Cuneiform Objects" Posted it on Facebook as nerdporn. Later on i checked enenuru and was surprised that Bill posted it here, from a different source. And today there was a link to it in the AGADE mailing list. 0_0 kinda creepy btw, CDLI worked on their layout, go and have a look. edit: I actually was looking for a list of god names from the URIII period that i saw on cdli , but couldn´t find it.
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Post by Šarraku on Feb 11, 2013 21:10:11 GMT -5
Thank you, us4-he2-gal2! The verb parser definitely has some kinks that need to be worked out, but it's beyond useful. Without it, it would have taken me much longer to memorize the verb stems. By the way, long vowels are written by doubling (aa = ā), circumflexed/contracted vowels are capitalized (A = â), shin (š) = c, tet (ṭ) = capital T, and tsade (ts/ṣ) = capital S. madness, that website on the Mesopotamian pantheon is a great find; thanks! ---------------------- For anyone on here who uses Windows, I recommend downloading the The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator and making your own keyboard shortcuts. Now I can type long vowels and other special letters commonly seen in Assyriology without Unicode. Convenient beyond words, it is.
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Post by sheshki on Feb 15, 2013 15:53:01 GMT -5
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Post by Salmu on Feb 23, 2013 12:53:47 GMT -5
Regarding that link to the Iconography of Dieties and Demons webpage that Bill discusses in the latest mailout (http://www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/index.php)... " A problem at the moment is the page is not completely functional .... The Lemma selection option seems not to work yet, but someday will possibly be a very effective way to find divine iconography..."
This site is difficult to navigate initially, but it is substantially functional, and I found it very convenient once I worked it out three years ago when researching my MA. (the data base search function is, however, new, so I have no idea about that link, but I find them irritating with most sites, because they are so lexically specific).
I recommend anyone interested in the topic goes straight to the Electronic Pre-publications page and cruises leisurely through the bazillion of informed pdfs that you can download by seaching a god or theme alphabetically. They are a brilliant resource for concise iconographic data written by acknowledged experts and not restricted to just one specific Near Eastern culture. There are also some good general essays on iconography.
I thought the Lemmata section used to take you to this page, but these listings do not seem to be clickable any more. Maybe they changed this function at some point.
Cheers all A
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Post by sheshki on Mar 6, 2013 13:24:51 GMT -5
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Post by sheshki on Mar 7, 2013 13:13:09 GMT -5
Ancient Planet Vol.3 has, among other stuff, an article about the Akkadian Empire and an article about the term "mother goddess" by Andrea Btw, Ancient Planet 4 is coming out soon and then number 3 is not available anymore under this link, so if you want to have a look do it soon. The Kingdom of Akkad: The rise and fall of the first multinational empire in history
By Joshua J. Mark M.A.The city of Akkad, located in northern Mesopotamia, gave rise to the first multinational empire in the world stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. Trade, writing, religion, science, and agriculture all flourished in Mesopotamia under the Empire but, today, no one knows for certain where the city was even located. This article provides a brief history of the rise and fall of the great Akkadian Empire. Erroneous Terms in Archaeology and Popular Literature: ‘the Mother Goddess’, or Why I Can Be Tiresome at Social Engagements
By Andrea Sinclair M.A.This article examines the 19th and early 20th century origins for the term ‘mother goddess’ in literature. This epithet and the equally dubious notion of early matriarchal societies have dogged the steps of archaeologists for decades. In the past (and the present) this term has been generously applied to describe prehistoric goddesses and female figurines of all shapes and sizes from prehistoric and early historic period regions across Europe and the Near East. issuu.com/ancientplanet/docs/vol.3/1
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Post by sheshki on Mar 11, 2013 8:26:17 GMT -5
Stumbled across this very interesting page created by Oliver Kalkbrenner from Uni Heidelberg. Der Alte Orient www.deralteorient.de/Totally worth a look. I found the page while i did a translation of a foundation cone, with the help of ePSD and CDLI, and searched for "e2-temen-ni2-gur3-ni", a temple name. Here is the cone. www.cdli.ucla.edu/P226497And here is what i have translated so far, but i am unsure about line 2 so i sent Amarsin a message to see if i failed or not 1. dnanna// Nanna2. amar banda 3da an-na// young calf?3. dumu-sag// first born4. den-lil 2-la 2// of Enlil5. lugal-a-ni// his king6. ur- dnamma// Urnamma7. nita kal-ga// strong man8. lugal uri 5ki-ma-ke 4// King of Ur9. e 2-temen-ni 2-gur 3-ni// Etemennigur (Nanna´s temple in Ur)10. mu-na-du 3// He built for him
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Mar 18, 2013 4:33:01 GMT -5
Sheshki - this page certainly seems to have a huge amount of historical data I will say that the web design and graphical content is maybe a little lacking, but I suppose that is secondary. Very nice work with the cone translation! Even a relatively simple text like this one is no easy matter when your translating and interpreting ED Sumerian. Maybe it's time for you to quit your day job?
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Post by sheshki on Mar 22, 2013 10:43:38 GMT -5
Facebook page Mār Šiprim Mār Šiprim is the Newsletter for the International Association for Assyriology (IAA) www.facebook.com/MarShiprim
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Post by sheshki on Mar 22, 2013 13:10:27 GMT -5
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Post by sheshki on Mar 29, 2013 4:59:23 GMT -5
Hello, today i present to you a fine example of "internet bullshit". This picture made me giggle and facepalm at the same moment. Imagin a big army, ready to crush the enemy, and infront mighty Ishtar, with her symbols, the bunnie and the egg.
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Post by muska on Mar 30, 2013 3:54:19 GMT -5
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Post by sheshki on Apr 4, 2013 10:10:41 GMT -5
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Apr 9, 2013 8:02:57 GMT -5
Sheshki: Yes the digging in southern Mesopotamia is quite exciting, hasn't happened in a long time! So the dig you linked above is a team out of Britain and is headed by Jane Moon. She makes a very personalized accounting of the daily developments in her online tumbler blog here: urheritage.tumblr.com/ This is a nice way to see what it would be like digging and living at a S. Mesopotamian site. The site they are working on is called Khaiber - located near Ur it was an administrative site in the OB period (but not an administrative site for Ur apparently). If you go back a page or two at the tumblr blog, they have dug up some interesting stuff already. On a different note, here is yet another indicator of the destruction of the site of Ebla caused by the Syrian war: www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=wo_t4#/video/international/2013/04/07/syrian-antiquities-watson.cnn
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Post by sheshki on Apr 22, 2013 18:11:11 GMT -5
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Post by sheshki on May 17, 2013 18:38:44 GMT -5
Interesting website listing ANE kingdoms link
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Post by sheshki on May 21, 2013 11:36:43 GMT -5
An article about Early Dynastic relations in southern Mesopotamia Messengers from Šuruppak Eric Cripps, 2013This paper reviews the evidence for inter city and regional communications in the Fara texts, from the various occupations involved in these trade and military ventures, and also offers a new interpretation of a ‘Sammeltafel’ as a possible summary of ‘messenger’ texts amongst the Fara documents. Link
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Post by sheshki on May 22, 2013 19:40:19 GMT -5
Interesting and very beautiful artworks by the Iraqi artist Suhail Alhindawi ---> Link <---
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Post by sheshki on May 27, 2013 16:57:52 GMT -5
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