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Lexical Sondergut of Neo-Assyrian
State Archives of Assyria Bulletin. 2017. Vol. XXIII. P. 1–46.
Loesov S., Kalinin M.
This study addresses the words unique to the extant Neo-Assyrian corpus. All of them are listed in the paper, with etymological and philological notes wherever feasible or appropriate. Two foci of the inquiry are innovations in the basic lexicon of Neo-Assyrian and productive rules of word-formation in this language.
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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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Шелестин В. Ю., Ясеновская А. А., Nemirovsky A., В кн.: Владимир Семенович Голенищев и его коллекция восточных древностей.: Издательство Русской христианской гуманитарной академии, 2022. Гл. 5 С. 328–356.
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Анохина Е. А., Васильева О. А., Изосимов Д. А. et al., Издательство Русской христианской гуманитарной академии, 2022.
the publication summarizes the results of biographical and scientific research
heritage of Vladimir Semenovich Golenishchev (1856–1947) - an outstanding
Xia Egyptologist, creator of a collection of antiquities of Egypt and Western Asia, becoming
the basis of the collection of the ancient East in the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin. Data
research was carried out in 2019–2022. within the framework ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Balakhvantsev A., Kogan L., Lyavdansky A. et al., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2022 Vol. 82 No. 4 P. 911–940
The authors publish a hitherto unknown squeeze made from a North West Semitic inscription. The squeeze originally belonged to the Russian Archeological Institute in Constantinople and is now hosted by the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The inscription, performed in relief, may have been made on a large ...
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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. ...
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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
Loesov S., Journal of Semitic Studies 2022 Vol. 67 No. 1 P. 337–351
Suffix conjugations (SCs) of East and West Semitic may not be traced back to the same verb form in Proto-Semitic. Rather, they evolved separately, by way of a ‘common drift’ in the two branches of Semitic. This is demonstrated, in particular, by a crass contrast, both in forms and diathetic meanings, between the SCs of ...
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Kalinin M., Loesov S., Journal of Semitic Studies 2022 Vol. 67 No. 2 P. 471–516
In Proto-Aramaic, the passive of transitive verbs belonging to all three principal stems—G, D and C—was formed internally. Some verbs of the G- and D-stems also possessed detransitive derivatives. Transitive verbs of the G-, D- and C-stems lost their internal passives early on, and the passives of G- and D-verbs were encoded by their respective ...
Added: October 15, 2022