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Loktionov A., Post Hole 2014 Vol. 36 P. 24–28
This paper looks at arguably the most ancient documented form of fortune-telling: Old Babylonian oil divination. The principle aim is to raise awareness of a much under-studied element in the ancient Mesopotamian textual record, giving some suggestions regarding its social function along the way. Additionally, the investigation provides a short case study demonstrating how practical ...
Added: March 12, 2025
Arkhipov I., Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archeologie Orientale 2023 Vol. 117 No. 1 P. 69–84
The Louvre houses thirty-two Old Babylonian letters discovered in Kiš during the excavations led by Henri de Genouillac in 1912. He published the letters, copied in cuneiform, in 1925. Twenty-two of these letters were then published by Jean-Robert Kupper in 1959. In 2019, the letters were collated in the Louvre, and the results of this ...
Added: August 25, 2024
Markina E., Westenholz A., Journal of the American Oriental Society. American Oriental Society 2024 Vol. 144 No. 2 P. 361–368
In this paper, the year names on two tablets from the reign of Naramsin of Akkad are mutually restored and their contribution to understanding the development of Old Akkadian royal iconography is considered. ...
Added: July 11, 2024
Alexandrov B., Вестник древней истории 2023 Т. 83 № 4 С. 975–1003
The article contains translation and commentary to the Akkadian letter RS 34.165 from the archives of Ugarit. This letter describes a battle between Hittite and Assyrian armies fought near the town of Nihriya in Upper Mesopotamia close to the end of 1240s B.C. ...
Added: December 24, 2023
Sergey Koval, Loesov S., Studies in Language 2025 Vol. 49 No. 1 P. 93–118
The Old Assyrian language is a branch of East Semitic. East Semitic has been extinct since around 400 BCE. The Old Assyrian texts were produced by Assyrian merchants between 1890 and 1860 BCE in Northern Mesopotamia and Central Anatolia. Old Assyrian, as well as most other East Semitic varieties, had a ventive (or cislocative) marker ...
Added: December 23, 2023
Nurullin R., Вестник древней истории 2023 Т. 83 № 2 С. 274–297
This paper deals with a passage from an Old Babylonian Gilgamesh tablet (the Meissner–Millard tablet). The paper attempts at a poetic analysis of the passage and addresses the question of its possible foreign origin within the Epic of Gilgamesh. ...
Added: June 26, 2023
Berzon E., Maksim Kalinin, Sergey Koval et al., Journal of Semitic Studies 2023 Vol. 68 No. 2 P. 391–402
This paper offers an interpretation of an insufficiently understood verb form in the Neo-Babylonian letter OIP 114, 17:8, 29, thereby clarifying its contents. The word in question is shown to be an Aramaic verb form. This interpretation is supported by observations on the orthography and phonology of early Neo-Babylonian. It follows from the study that ...
Added: April 6, 2023
Arkhipov I., Journal of Semitic Studies 2023 Vol. 68 No. 1 P. 1–17
The Akkadian expression lā watar (lā matar) appears in two dozen Old Babylonian letters, in Standard Babylonian lexical lists and, arguably, in an Old Babylonian mathematical text and in an Old Assyrian letter. Though the expression has been known since the early twentieth century, it has never been an object of a special study. Commentaries in the ...
Added: March 4, 2023
Alexandrov B., Вестник древней истории 2022 Т. 82 № 4 С. 983–989
The article offers a survey of the texts published from ancient Sapinuwa as DAAM 2 ...
Added: December 24, 2022
Markina E., , in: Pratiques administratives et comptables au Proche-Orient à l'âge du Bronze.: P., Leuven, Bristol: Peeters Publishers, 2021. P. 171–182.
The paper is an attempt at providinan up-to-date reconstruction of
political and economic life at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Gasur (mod. Yorghan Tepe) in the 3rd millennium BCE. ...
Added: October 17, 2022
Markina E., Вестник древней истории 2022 Т. 82 № 2 С. 261–280
Статья предлагает читателю ознакомиться с деловой перепиской, дошедшей до нас в составе архива текстов из древнего Гасура. В письмах затрагивается широкий круг проблем,
связанных в основном с сельскохозяйственными практиками, отношениями чиновников
друг с другом и организацией визита царя (предположительно, Нарам-Суэна) в Гасур. ...
Added: October 17, 2022
Alexandrov B., Ориенталистика 2021 Т. 4 № 3 С. 596–619
The Akkadian expression ubānum ištēt ‘one finger’ is attested in Old Babylonian letters of the 18thcentury BCE as an allegoric description of a close alliance between rulers. Two hypotheses were advanced in the literature to explain the origin of this expression. According to the first one, the allegory of ‘one finger’ was based on a symbolic gesture ...
Added: February 3, 2022
Nurullin R., Kogan L., Вестник древней истории 2021 Т. 81 № 4 С. 1073–1105
Статья посвящена староаккадскому любовному заклинанию MAD 5, 8. Речь идет об одном из наиболее ранних из известных сегодня поэтических текстов, написанных на аккадском языке. Статья содержит полноценное научное издание этого заклинания, включающее подробное исследование его языка и орфографии, перевод и всесторонний филологический комментарий. Для ряда темных мест предложены новые интерпретации. ...
Added: December 25, 2021