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Free Download Etudes Mesopotamiennes – Mesopotamian Studies N4 – 2024: Tell Masaikh/Kar-assurnasirpal : Horizons Ceramiques Dans Les Cultures De La Vallee Du Moyen … (French Edition) by Ilaria Calini
French | January 25, 2024 | ISBN: 1803277149 | 294 pages | PDF | 18 Mb
Etudes Mesopotamiennes – Mesopotamian Studies 4 provides the first complete presentation of the ceramic vessels from the levels associated with the Neo-Assyrian occupation of Tell Masaikh, excavated by a French-Syrian archaeological mission between 1996 and 2010. Located in the valley of the Middle Euphrates in Syria, at a crossroads for encounters and on a key axis for communications and trade from Assyria to the Mediterranean, as well as from Anatolia to Babylonia, Tell Masaikh corresponds to the ancient city of Kar-Assurnasirpal, founded on the left bank of the Euphrates by Assurnasirpal II during his military conquests, and later becoming one of the residences of the Assyrian governor Nergal-eresh. But rather than showing the imposition of a material culture that only conforms to the models of the Assyrian Empire, the ceramic production of Tell Masaikh bears witness to an open cultural horizon, where Assyrian, Babylonian, Kassite and Levantine traditions blend and interact. In light of data documenting Syria’s archaeological heritage in a region whose ancient history is still relatively obscure, this book not only presents a catalogue of previously unpublished finds, but also anchors the study of this material in a broader historical reflection on the ways Assyrian power interplayed in a specific regional context.

Free Download Mesopotamian History Trivia: Explore the Cradle of Civilization with 500+ Questions and Answers About Ancient Mesopotamia by Ahoy Publications
English | October 17, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DK9YMTBT | 281 pages | EPUB | 6.73 Mb
Discover the Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia with This Fun Trivia Collection!

Free Download Dahlia Shehata, "Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature: How to Tell a Story "
English | ISBN: 900469756X | 2024 | 328 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature: How to Tell a Story lays theoretical and methodological groundwork for the analysis of Mesopotamian literature. It includes a comprehensive exploration of critical contemporary issues in Sumerian and Akkadian narrative analysis, as well as case studies testing diverse approaches drawn from literary studies.

Free Download The Anunnaki: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Mesopotamian Deities by Charles River Editors
English | July 8, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D94T9MKN | 62 pages | EPUB | 5.29 Mb
The ancient world was full of many fantastic cities and places, and like today’s major cities, the great ancient cities were hubs of trade, religion, and science. Writing was first invented in ancient cities, and many important scientific discoveries were also made in them, some of which are still used in the modern world. Among the many cities of the ancient world, Rome and Athens may come to mind first, but the city of Babylon in the land of Mesopotamia was already an ancient, venerated city when the others were still inconsequential settlements.

Free Download Karen Foster, "A Mesopotamian Miscellany"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 146324052X | PDF | pages: 174 | 5.2 mb
Drawn from Akkadian and Sumerian tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection, many of them previously unpublished, this collection of readings brings to life the vibrancy of ancient Mesopotamian literature, beyond its better-known myths and epics.

Free Download Maria Teresa Renzi-Sepe, "The Perception of the Pleiades in Mesopotamian Culture"
English | ISBN: 3447120533 | 2024 | 458 pages | PDF | 23 MB
This is a monograph on the Pleiades, one of the oldest examples of a divine asterism. The Mesopotamian scholars understood it to be seven stars that received great attention in the cuneiform culture. This volume is designed as a case study on the topic of the conceptualisation of celestial bodies in Mesopotamia, and it aims to show how the Pleiades were perceived and thus described in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. To this end, this monograph analyzes the intertextual relationships within a wide range of cuneiform sources – myths, prayers, and astral science texts – tracing one or more possible traditions in the perception of the Pleiades transmitted over almost two millennia. Great importance is given to divination and celestial omens, long lists of inferences featuring the Pleiades and the predictions associated with them. At the centre is the reconstruction and critical edition of three omen tablets devoted to the Pleiades, two from the celestial omen series Enuma Anu Enlil, and one from its serialised commentary summa Sin ina tamartisu. As an appendix, the volume also includes new insights into the structure and conception of omen texts in light of these new editions and new approaches to the history of scientific thought. Thus, The Perception of the Pleiades in Mesopotamian Culture combines cultural-historical research, philology and the necessary astronomical background in an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive way, which will be of interest not only to Assyriologists but also to specialists in the history of religion, astronomy, and other related fields.

Free Download Philippe Clancier, "Études Mésopotamiennes – Mesopotamian Studies 2023 "
English | ISBN: 1803274336 | 2023 | 383 pages | PDF | 27 MB
Colleagues, students and friends of Francis Joannes pay tribute in articles exploring the Achaemenid and Greco-Macedonian empires through cuneiform sources, as well as other topics reflecting his extensive and varied career.