Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East – serie
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Facing an Empire
Hirbemerdon Tepe and the Upper Tigris Region during the Early Iron Age and Neo-Assyrian Period
Inbunden, 2013
983 kr
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Recent archaeological discoveries within the Upper Tigris region in Southeastern Turkey offer a unique opportunity to understand the dynamics of the Assyrian Empire borderlands. Within a few years most of the region will be irreversibly submerged, due to the construction of the Ilisu dam, the …
Engraved on Stone
Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals and Seal Inscriptions in the Old Babylonian Period
Inbunden, 2014
1070 kr
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Cylinder seals were important instruments in the Ancient Near East, and were used in Mesopotamia from the beginning of the third millennium BCE to the fifth century BCE. This volume presents an analysis of 1000 cylinder seals (including 70 that are not yet published) from the Old Babylonian period, …
Tribe and State
The Dynamics of International Politics and the Reign of Zimri-Lim
Av Adam Miglio
Inbunden, 2014
1070 kr
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This book analyzes Zimri-Lim’s interactions with sovereigns from the Habur and with Yamut-bal and Numha tribal polities. It describes how Zimri-Lim’s disproportionate dependence on tribal connections left him vulnerable when these alliances began to falter in his tenth regnal year.
"As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah …": The Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations after 85 Years
Av Jeffrey R. Zorn, Aaron J. Brody
Inbunden, 2014
1039 kr
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Collected essays on aspects of daily life at the Israelite site of Tell en-Nasbeh (biblical Mizpah of Benjamin). These include: trade and economy, death and burial, metals, cooking, water management, curation of the site’s materials, and a site bibliography.
Death and Burial in Iron Age Israel, Aram, and Phoenicia
Inbunden, 2017
2498 kr
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Death and Burial uses archaeological and textual evidence to examine death and burial in Iron Age Israel and Aram. Despite dramatic differences in the religious systems of these peoples, this monograph demonstrates striking connections between their basic material and psychological frameworks for …
Culture of Defeat
Submission in Written Sources and the Archaeological Record. Proceedings of a Joint Seminar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Vienna, October 2017
Av Katharina Streit, Marianne Grohmann
Inbunden, 2021
1585 kr
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Culture of Defeat is based on a 2017 conference focusing on the impact on, and responses by, the defeated parties in conflicts in the ancient Near East. Shifting the focus of analysis from the conqueror to the vanquished, the (re-)examination of written sources and the archaeological record sheds …
New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia
Inbunden, 2024
1477 kr
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Ancient Nubia played key political, social, and economic roles in the ancient world, yet knowledge of Nubian societies remains regrettably narrow, with Nubia often disregarded as derivative of Egypt. This volume provides a timely corrective to this outlook, centering Nubian history and archaeology …
Material Origin of Numbers
Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Häftad, 2025
938 kr
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The Material Origin of Numbers examines how number concepts are realized, represented, manipulated, and elaborated. Utilizing the cognitive archaeological framework of Material Engagement Theory and culling data from disciplines including neuroscience, ethnography, linguistics, and archaeology, …
Comparison of Ancient Near Eastern Law Collections Prior to the First Millennium BC
Inbunden, 2013
1752 kr
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This book highlights and explains consistent differences in both the framing and content of the various pre-first millennium BC law collections of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Hatti. The differences between collections are placed in the broader background of the worldview and political make-up of the …
Other Mathematics
Language and Logic in Egyptian and in General
Av Leo Depuydt
Inbunden, 2008
2500 kr
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This book is about attribute mathematics, in which nothing ever gets bigger or smaller. More specifically, it is about some of what attribute mathematics can do toward the full digitalization of thought and language. The matter is relevant not only directly to linguistics and philosophy but also …
Archaeology of Cult in Middle Bronze Age Canaan
The Sacred Area at Tel Haror, Israel
Av Jill Katz
Inbunden, 2013
1593 kr
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What was Canaanite religion like during the Middle Bronze Age, at the time of the biblical patriarchs? This volume presents a theoretical model for identifying ritual behavior in the archaeological record, providing a test case using the rich material culture and structures that have been unearthed …
Homer and the Bronze Age
The Reflection of Humanistic Ideals in Diplomatic Practices
Inbunden, 2013
1764 kr
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Peter Karavites presents a revisionist overview of Homeric scholarship, whose purpose is to bridge the gap between the “positivist” and “negativist” theories dominant in the greater part of the twentieth century. His investigation derives new insights from Homer’s text and solves the age old …
