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Post by muska on Jun 1, 2013 4:21:05 GMT -5
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Post by sheshki on Jun 9, 2013 15:41:49 GMT -5
Wonderful short movie in german about writing cuneiform. Bill, hint ---> link
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Jun 18, 2013 8:29:56 GMT -5
Thanks very much for posting these Sheshki What brilliant attention to detail these German commentators are exercising - all and all it is a wonderful tribute to cuneiform writing!
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Post by sheshki on Jun 23, 2013 2:16:21 GMT -5
Statua di Assurbanipal nei pressi dell'Asian Art Museum di San Francisco from Facebook group Ancient Near East
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Post by sheshki on Jun 30, 2013 7:17:26 GMT -5
Website about Hittite monuments: "Monuments of the Hittites is an experimental site prepared totally as a hobby. My aim is to build a page with references to all major Hittite monuments. The locations listed below are the sites that has one or more monument belonging to the times of Hittite civilization. The text list below divides the sites in to two groups by date. This is definetely not a complete list, nor the listed sites may have complete information. Some pages are still missing information or images. I will continue to update the pages with more information. I would appreciate any comments, feedback, and information. Tayfun Bilgin <tayfun@bilgin.com>." Hittite Monuments
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Post by enkur on Jul 2, 2013 14:03:45 GMT -5
Great finding, Sheshki.
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Post by sheshki on Aug 28, 2013 14:46:18 GMT -5
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Post by sheshki on Sept 23, 2013 14:49:55 GMT -5
British Museum to set up online archives of Mesopotamian material The British Museum and US-based Penn Museum are collaborating on the creation of a web resource to display archaeologist Leonard Woolley’s Mesopotamian excavations from 1922-34. The two institutions are in talks with colleagues at the National Museum of Iraq about the project and hope to develop a collaboration with their Iraqi counterparts as the initiative progresses. The project will include all available information on each object, as well as photographs, drawings, maps and field records, with full translations in English to provide context. The project is funded by a $1.28m grant from the Leon Levy Foundation and is due to be completed in June 2015. Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, said: “Through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation, these sensational discoveries, housed in three great museums, can be presented to a worldwide audience of millions.” www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/01092013-bm-to-set-up-online-archive-mesopotamia
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Post by dingo on Oct 21, 2013 10:39:42 GMT -5
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Post by sheshki on Nov 11, 2013 6:10:51 GMT -5
Mesopotamian chronicles The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE. On this page, you will find links to translations of all known chronicles; they are meant as a first introduction and for ready reference, but it is advisable not to quote them without consulting a printed edition, because many readings are still uncertain; new editions of the chronicles of the Seleucid and Parthian period; several of them have not been published before... LINK
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Post by enkur on Dec 16, 2013 15:32:01 GMT -5
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Post by sheshki on Dec 17, 2013 19:17:13 GMT -5
Yes Enkur, this sounds very interesting. But 279 Euros...
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Post by enkur on Dec 19, 2013 7:38:53 GMT -5
Wow! Too much indeed.
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Post by sheshki on Dec 20, 2013 12:10:17 GMT -5
Reckoning Before Writingby Denise Schmandt-Besserat Reckoning—how people count—is an intellectual endeavor that on occasion can be demonstrated archaeologically. Bone artifacts bearing incised markings seem to indicate that ancient Palaeolithic people had devised a system of recording as early as 30,000 to 12,000 years ago. When first discovered in French cave sites in the late 1800's, the notched bones were immediately identified as mnemonic devices. They were interpreted as hunting tallies and the notches were thought to represent records of kills. In a recent analysis of several collections of these artifacts, Alexander Marschack of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, noticed that the markings are not... >>>LINK
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Post by sheshki on Jan 14, 2014 14:27:34 GMT -5
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Post by sheshki on Jan 22, 2014 12:10:44 GMT -5
Some nice books for children. I guess i will have to buy them at some point. ---> Link
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Post by sheshki on Feb 12, 2014 9:03:44 GMT -5
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Post by sheshki on Feb 23, 2014 17:30:54 GMT -5
AWOL Archaologische Berichte aus dem Yemen in AMAR Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Babylon in AMAR Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli in AMAR Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka: Endberichte in AMAR Beycesultan in AMAR Bogazkoy in AMAR Demircihüyük Excavation Reports in AMAR Excavations at Tell Brak in AMAR Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran in AMAR Gordion Excavation Reports in AMAR Halabiyya-Zenobia in AMAR Isin - Isan Bahriyat in AMAR Kamid el-Loz in AMAR Larsa Reports in AMAR Mission Archéologique de Mari in AMAR Les Monuments ayyoubides de Damas in AMAR Sardis: publications of the American Society for the excavation of Sardis in AMAR Seleucia on the Tigris in AMAR Ugaritica in AMAR Excavation reports for free download.
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Post by sheshki on May 10, 2014 14:16:15 GMT -5
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on May 12, 2014 8:05:49 GMT -5
WOW! how cool is that site? That's just amazingly useful, will have to spread this one around! Thanks Sheshki
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Post by sheshki on Sept 14, 2014 8:20:25 GMT -5
Wonderful link to browse the complete collection of the louvre. linkit´s in french of course, but you will cope thanks to Andrea for finding this.
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Post by sheshki on Nov 19, 2014 14:01:59 GMT -5
today in Agade mailing list Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals online linkthe e-mail text Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals online (CMAwRo) The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals online is now available at <http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/cmawro/corpus>. At the moment, it comprises the texts edited in T. Abusch and D. Schwemer, Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals, vol. 1 (Ancient Magic and Divination 8/1), Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2011. The online presentation of the texts within the framework of Oracc (<http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu>) includes fully lemmatised transliterations and is accompanied by online glossaries. Future volumes of CMAwR will be integrated into CMAwRo after their print publication. Further information on Mesopotamian witchcraft can be found at <http://www.cmawro.altorientalistik.uni-wuerzburg.de>. Among the materials now available are - information on the CMAwR project and team; - information on the use of CMAwRo; - essays on various aspects of Mesopotamian magic and witchcraft; - downloadable hand-copies of a selection of important manuscripts of Maqlû; - the Bibliography of Mesopotamian Magic. Contact: Daniel Schwemer (daniel.schwemer@uni-wuerzburg.de)
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Nov 22, 2014 7:40:27 GMT -5
Excellent find Sheshki, thanks very much! Yes I should read my Agade mail more often. In any case, the website is an excellent resource with very well laid out transliteration and translation. Without the Agade e-mail, it would be quite difficult to get perspective on what you are looking at really, the page itself doesn't seem to say, at least not yet... but visitors to the site should understand that it is basically a digitization of the work of Schwemer and Abusch (as mentioned in the Agade notice): Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals, vol. 1, Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2011. In order to understand how these texts fit in to the overall corpus of exorcistic incantations against witchcraft, one would need to consult the introduction in this work then.
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Post by sheshki on Feb 22, 2015 10:43:33 GMT -5
nice collection of pdfs link
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Feb 22, 2015 20:53:04 GMT -5
Ah yes - some nice pdfs here a few classic series Thank you Sheshki. Just a reminder for any members who may have ambitions to study anything Mesopotamian, and require even more than this, please do e-mail me directly for a basically infinite supply of important material.
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Post by mesopotamiankaraite on Feb 27, 2015 13:17:52 GMT -5
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Post by lilitudemon on Mar 7, 2015 2:02:09 GMT -5
Some nice books for children. I guess i will have to buy them at some point. ---> LinkHas anybody read these books? I scored some of the awesome artwork from it but I haven't heard much on it. Likewise, does anybody know who made these? They seem to be some artwork detailing the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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Post by mesopotamiankaraite on Mar 7, 2015 11:04:02 GMT -5
Yes I read those books when I was 5th grade, which was when my obsession with Mesopotamia began.
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Post by sheshki on Mar 12, 2015 11:49:21 GMT -5
found in Agade Mail Cuneiform Commentaries Project We are happy to announce the launch of the website of the Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP), at ccp.yale.edu. It seeks to make available to the scholarly community and a more general audience the world's oldest cohesive group of hermeneutic texts, the commentaries from first millennium BCE Assyria and Babylonia. The website includes a comprehensive catalog of the ca. 850 known commentary tablets, at ccp.yale.edu/catalog. It also includes several introductory essays on different aspects of the Mesopotamian commentary tradition, such as the history of the genre, typology of commentaries, technical terms used in commentaries, and hermeneutic techniques, at ccp.yale.edu/introduction. Eventually, the website will provide fully annotated electronic editions of all known commentary tablets.
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Post by sheshki on Mar 21, 2015 14:12:04 GMT -5
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