. It is first recalled that the distribution maps of the glass factories in Gaule, in the first centuries of our era, exclude many processing sites for raw glass imported from the Middle East, on the grounds that there were no typologically usable waste. But the traces of glass activities at that ti...

International audience Analysis of a stone flagon found on the surface of the early urban site of Shahdad (Kerman, Iran) has shown that the vessel contained a lead-based cosmetic. Other finds recovered from the same surface context suggest a dating within the second half of the fourth millennium BC...

Various laws were practised in ancient Israel. Although the present study will introduce briefly the concept of law as practised in Ancient Near East (ANE) in general, the project focuses particularly on ancient Israel as depicted by the Old Testament (OT) law traditions. The study seeks to investig...

My book deals for the first time comprehensively with the techniques (and methodologies) of socio-cultural research in pre-modern societies. Contrary to prevailing opinion, it holds that some form of empirical research in these domains must have been present in all human groups, and every type of so...

Mein Buch behandelt zum erstenmal zusammenfassend die Techniken (und Methodologien) der Sozial- und Kulturforschung vormoderner gesellschaften. Im Unterschied zur vorherrschenden meinung geht es davon aus, dass es irgendeine Form empirischer Forschung auf diesen gebieten in allen menschlichen Gruppe...

former unitarian pastor, Ralph Waldo Emerson treats proche-Oriental Antiquity as a corpus of texts (the biblique canon); in his view, it was part of a hermeneutical survey, inextricably linked to a thorough reflection on the nature and challenges of writing and reading. Inherited from Christian theo...

The 2018 ASOR Annual Meeting will be held in Denver, CO, from November 14th to 17th at the Denver Marriott Tech Center. The conference attracts over 1,000 scholars and enthusiasts of archaeology, linguistics, geography, epigraphy, anthropology, and other fields related to the study of the ancient Ne...

The study of the ancient Middle East Metrology has traditionally focused on reconstructing the relative values between the units of each measurement system and identifying absolute values by converting old measurement standards into modern measurement standards. However, recent work is seeking to re...

Times Cited: 16 International audience Cattle domestication from wild aurochsen was among the most important innovations during the Neolithic agricultural revolution. The available genetic and archaeological evidence points to at least two major sites of domestication in India and in the Near East,...

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The article is devoted to the publication of security excavation materials of three burial mounds from the Peschanokop district of Rostov-on-Don region. Each burial mound contained only one looted tomb. The tomb in the shaft-in-chamber from the mound Bogoroditsky IV with featureless inventory and we...

Numbers 5:11–31 could be interpreted as a kind of sexism and repression to women. In the Mishnaic tradition, the passages indeed are being understood and developed in such a manner. From tractate Sotah in Mishnah, the suspected adulterous wife indeed is ashamed and treated as a prostitute. This art...

The soils of a deposition hill of an ancient mountain slide, from a serpentinitic region called Totalp, were investigated and mapped. The investigation area lies east of Wolfgang (1631 m above sea level) near Davos, Switzerland.<br> In spite of the subalpine climate, which generates iron-humus-podso...

Review of <em>Plants and Humans in the Near East and the Caucasus: Ancient and Traditional Uses of Plants as Food and Medicine, a Diachronic Ethnobotanical Review </em>(2 vols). Vol. 1: <em>The Landscapes. The Plants: Ferns and Gymnosperms</em>. Vol. 2: <em>The Plants: Angiosperms</em>. Diego Rivera...

We are pleased to announce the publication of Figuring Out the Figurines of the Ancient Near East, edited by Stephanie Langin-Hooper. This is the first volume in the series Occasional Papers in Coroplastic Studies that is designed to provide a forum for the publication of peer-reviewed papers dedica...

This study explores the concept of God in the ancient Near East literature. This is very important for us to be able to understand the thoughts of the nations that lived at that time about God. Because this is a period of interest in the idea of God. This is because the first documents that can be o...

This is the text of a lunchtime lecture given at the Warburg Institute in the spring of 2004. It formed part of a series concerned with past Warburg scholars, and was devoted to the work of Henri Frankfort, Director of the Institute from 1949 to 1954. The first third of the lecture was a rapid accou...

The Jew religion had been deeply affected by the idolatrous Babylonian rituals. It had not been aberrant until they had occurred in the times of writing the Old Testament after loosing of the religious tablets in the Babylonian Captivity. That time had been the representative of the initial stages o...

The importance of this research in the study of the Kingdom of Lydia history and culture in a period of the seventh century BC that the Greek kingdom, which emerged in Asia Minor, specifically in the western Anatolia and took control of the roads leading to the coast of the Aegean Sea are thus repre...

<p> The Konya Archaeology Museum, which is one of Turkey's oldest museums, has a very rich collection, both from Central and Central and environmental centres. In this collection, the findings of Çatalhöyük, the Ikonium Necropolis and the Roman Empire Period, and the Late Antiquity sarcophagus, are...

In Mesopotamia, statues are considered actual incarnations of the divinity, which must be sustained and clothed. Their temples therefore house real treasures, accumulations of wealth in the form of cult objects (sacred vessels made of silver or gold) or jewellery for the officiants to use for adorni...

Spengler’s Decline of the West is generally read in view of his bleak prophecies concerning the future of the West. This somewhat obscures his contribution to comparative history and his interest not only in Classical Antiquity and the West, but also in the Ancient Near East. In this paper, we will...