Some Results of the Third International Conference on Asian Archaeology in Bahrain, March 1970: New Discoveries in the Persian/Arabian Gulf States and Relations with Artifacts from Countries of the Ancient Near East

Artibus Asiae ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith Porada ◽  
Grace Burkholder ◽  
Marny Golding ◽  
Robert McC. Adams ◽  
Karen Frifelt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Arabian Gulf ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The Third ◽  
Gulf States

scholarly journals Editor's Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Gina Konstantopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The University

Introduction to the special issue of Studia Orientalia Electronica, collecting papers from the international conference “The Strange and the Familiar: Identity and Empire in the Ancient Near East,” held at the University of Helsinki on August 23 and 24, 2019. 

Sumerian Theology and Ethics

1956 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Noah Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Fundamental Nature ◽  
The Third ◽  
Systematic Philosophy ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Origin Of The Universe

The sumerians failed to develop a systematic philosophy in the accepted sense of the word. In particular it never occurred to them to raise any questions concerning the fundamental nature of reality and knowledge, and therefore they evolved practically nothing corresponding to the philosophical subdivisions commonly known as metaphysics and epistemology. They did, however, speculate on the nature and, more particularly, the origin of the universe, as well as on its method of operation. And there is good reason to infer that in the course of the third millennium B.C. there emerged a group of Sumerian thinkers and teachers who, in the course of their quest for satisfactory answers to some of the problems raised by their cosmic speculations, evolved a systematic cosmology and theology carrying such high intellectual conviction that they became the basic creed and dogma of much of the ancient Near East.

scholarly journals Corpus of Nabataean Aramaic-Greek Inscriptions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Petrantoni
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
First Century ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cultural Affinity ◽  
The Impact

The impact of the Hellenization in the Ancient Near East resulted in a notable presence of Greek koiné language and culture and in the interaction between Greek and Nabataean that conducted inhabitants to engrave inscriptions in public spaces using one of the two languages or both. In this questionably ‘diglossic’ situation, a significant number of Nabataean-Greek inscriptions emerged, showing that the koinŽ was employed by the Nabataeans as a sign of Hellenistic cultural affinity. This book offers a linguistic and philological analysis of fifty-one Nabataean-Greek epigraphic evidences existing in northern Arabia, Near East and Aegean Sea, dating from the first century BCE to the third-fourth century CE. This collection is an analysis of the linguistic contact between Nabataean and Greek in the light of the modalities of social, religious and linguistic exchanges. In addition, the investigation of onomastics (mainly the Nabataean names transcribed in Greek script) might allow us to know more about the Nabataean phonological system.

A Group of Terracotta Wagon Models from Southeastern Anatolia

1986 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 165-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Engin Özgen
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Technological Evolution ◽  
Vase Painting ◽  
The Third ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Considerable Period

Four-wheeled wagons, which can be considered as one of the major breakthroughs of man's technological evolution and range over a considerable period of time, seem to appear as pictographic signs on inscribed clay tablets from Uruk in southern Mesopotamia during the fourth millennium B.C. These simple vehicles which are depicted with a roofed superstructure were probably drawn by a pair of bovids the existence of which is attested in the ancient Near East both by literary sources and osteologically. The evidence for four-wheeled wagons, this time without a roof, becomes extensive in the following millennium as represented on the “Standard of Ur”, the “Vulture Stele”, specimens of vase painting, sealing and seals, terracotta and metal wagon models and actual wagon remains. In the beginning of the third millennium B.C. they are depicted in military contexts, hence the name “battle cars”, whereas there is no evidence for a similar use towards the end of the period and following millennia. It seems that they were relegated to cult use in the later third millennium B.C. and continued to the early second millennium B.C.

scholarly journals Augur Anxieties in the Ancient Near East

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-43
Author(s):  
Scott B. Noegel
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Near East ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
The Third ◽  
Divine Will ◽  
Ancient Mesopotamia ◽  
First Offers ◽  
Religious Worldviews

This contribution examines divination in ancient Mesopotamia from the practitioners’ own social, economic, and cosmological perspectives. It maintains that such an approach reveals divination to be an enterprise heavily informed by a number of insecurities, and that attention to these sources of anxiety sheds light on Mesopotamian religious worldviews. The chapter is divided into four parts. The first offers a brief synopsis of Near Eastern divination. The second examines two competing sources of anxiety that diviners negotiated: skepticism from others and their own theological principles. The third investigates the ways that diviners addressed these insecurities. The final portion of the chapter proposes several conclusions based on the combined evidence that concern the legitimation of divination as a means of seeking divine will, the rise of astrology and its impact on other forms of divination, the diviners’ ways of controlling cosmological anxieties, and the depiction of divination in Mesopotamian “literary” texts as a reflection of divinatory ideologies and the codependency of diviners and the royal house.

scholarly journals Animals as Social Actors: Cases of Equid Resistance in the Ancient Near East

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laerke Recht
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
Near East ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Third ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines the concept of animals as social actors in the ancient Near East through a case study of human–equid relations. In particular, examples where equids may be seen as expressing resistance, as depicted in the iconography of the third and second millenniabc, are analysed. The first part of the paper discusses how animals have been perceived in scholarly debates in philosophy, archaeology and human–animal studies. It is argued that an acknowledgement of animals as social actors can improve our understanding of the human past, and the relation of humans to their broader environment. The second part of the paper presents three examples from the ancient Near East where equids may be interpreted as pushing back or resisting the boundaries placed by humans, resulting in a renegotiation of the relationship.

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