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К вопросу о датировке архива саргоновских административных документов из Гасура
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Gasur archive is generally believed to have originated in the classic phase of the Sargonic period (i. e. at some point during the reign of Narām-Suen or Šar-kali-šarrē), primarily on the basis of the script and metrology used in these documents. The article offers an overview of the relevant chronological data found in the Gasur texts (including the date formulae and the evidence pertaining to the royal journey to Gasur) that seem to link the archive to the later phase of Narām-Suen’s reign.
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Ivan A. Ladynin, Nemirovsky A., Social Evolution & History 2025 Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 162–167
The article deals with the problem of the state formation in the two key areas of the early civilizations, i.e. Egypt and Mesopotamia. In Egypt the stage of the so-called nome states was largely avoided, as the local polities had probably the nature of chiefdoms and the state emerged when they were integrated into larger ...
Added: May 5, 2026
Markina E., Манн, Иванов и Фербер, 2026.
Аннотация издателя: «Эпос о Гильгамеше» — древнейший памятник мировой литературы, дошедший до нас из глубин шумерской и аккадской цивилизаций.
Поэма повествует о приключениях могущественного царя города Урука
и его друга Энкиду. Это история о силе и дружбе, гордыне и смирении,
страхе смерти и жажде бессмертия.
Поэма издается в переводе поэта-акмеиста Николая Гумилева с пояснительной статьей ассириолога и современника поэта Владимира
Шилейко, ...
Added: January 28, 2026
Arkhipov I., Успенский А.Ф., Вестник древней истории 2024 Т. 84 № 2 С. 502–536
В публикации представлен первый русский перевод "Староассирийской легенды о Саргоне" - уникального произведения аккадской литературы XIX в. до н.э., повествующего о подвигах первого царя Аккада. Перевод сопровожден подробным историческим, фольклористическим и филологическим комментарием. ...
Added: January 25, 2025
Arkhipov I., Kogan L., Altorientalische Forschungen 2025 Vol. 52 No. 1 P. 1–20
In the present study the authors continue their previous work analyzing difficult lexemes attested in the so-called “chancery texts” from the Early Dynastic city-state of Ebla (in modern Syria). The newly suggested interpretations are important not only for one’s understanding of the earliest forms of East Semitic, but also for a proper comprehension of the ...
Added: December 18, 2024
Arkhipov I., Loesov S., Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 2025 Vol. 88 No. 3 P. 431–453
The Akkadian ventive is now well understood as a marker pointing to the location of the speech act participants. Nonetheless, there remain other domains of its usage which still need clarification. We endeavour to describe these domains of the ventive’s usage relying upon a single-writer corpus of 178 Old Babylonian letters, those of Samsi-Addu, the ...
Added: December 18, 2024
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
Ladynin I. A., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2023 Т. 14 № 2(124)
The article presents a detailed analysis of arguments forwarded by a leading Soviet Orientalist Vassiliy Struwe (1889—1965) for his thesis about the existence of the slave-owning mode of production at the Ancient Orient. This thesis was formulated in his lecture at the State Academy for the History of Material Culture (GAIMK) on 4 June 1933 ...
Added: October 30, 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
Regulating Labour through Foreign Punishment? Codification and Sanction at Work in New Kingdom Egypt
Alexandre A. Loktionov, International Review of Social History 2023 Vol. 68 No. S31 P. 33–52
This paper investigates two New Kingdom Egyptian texts pertaining to labour regulation: the Karnak Decree of Horemheb and the Nauri Decree of Seti I. They focus on combating the unauthorized diverting of manpower and represent the oldest Egyptian texts (fourteenth–thirteenth century BCE) explicitly concerned with the legal dimension of managing the workforce. After a brief ...
Added: February 13, 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