Posted on behalf of Dr Peter Pavúk: Dear colleagues and friends, The summer is definitely over (at least in Central Europe) and with most of us now home from...
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Stephen Goranson
goranson11
Oct 1, 2010 11:20 pm
Evidently, Raphael Golb took out and used an email account steve.goranson@.... If you received email from that address, please know that I did not write...
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R. Lehmann
rglehmann
Oct 1, 2010 11:20 pm
... syllabaries? An all-too simplistic kind of view. Gelb re-activated? Maybe syllabaries. maybe logograms. maybe semaphorics, or maybe something else. Nobody...
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eliot braun
eliotbraun
Oct 1, 2010 11:20 pm
Here's a link to a website that allows oneto listen to people reading cuneiform texts. ...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Oct 2, 2010 12:45 pm
American Journal of Archaeology Online Museum Reviews : Donny George Youkhanna: (Posted October 2010) Learning from the Iraq Museum Iraq National Museum,...
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Brian Colless
damaohu
Oct 2, 2010 3:59 pm
... Barry Powell, WRITING , 2008, Ch 13, What kind of writing was West Semitic? He is talking about the Phoenician writing system (not an alphabet, and it is...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Oct 2, 2010 3:59 pm
I refer you to Alfred Schmitt, *Die Erfindung der Schrift* (1980), aposthumous collection of papers, and also to various articles of mine going back to 1992. ...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Oct 2, 2010 4:43 pm
If he claims that abugidas are syllabaries, then he is _not_ "clinging to Gelb," who insisted they are alphabets. It's not surprising that the publisher did...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Oct 3, 2010 11:02 am
... No, you've got it exactly backwards. Gelb always insisted that abjads were indistinct syllabaries (i.e. syllabaries where each symbol stood for a...
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R. Lehmann
rglehmann
Oct 3, 2010 11:04 am
But what about Gelb’s earlier statement that all West Semitic scripts were not alphabets, but rather syllabaries? (Daniels 1990, Gelb 1963, see also Powell...
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James Spinti
tweetynwiley
Oct 4, 2010 4:09 pm
With apologies for the cross-posting: Yes, this is it; the sale you've been waiting for. Eisenbrauns is pleased to announce our third annual "SBL in October"...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Oct 4, 2010 5:12 pm
Thoroughly refuted, see Lingua Posnaniensis 42 (2000): 43-55. Because of Gelb's fallacious "Principle of Unidirectional Development," he had to claim that...
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carly_crouch
Oct 4, 2010 5:12 pm
Bible & Empire International SBL 3-8 July 2011, London The Bible & Empire consultation of the ISBL announces an open call for papers for two sessions at its...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Oct 4, 2010 5:14 pm
vide infra �-- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... Jersey City ... Citation? He has very, very little to say about "Type III," except that it "presents...
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R. Lehmann
rglehmann
Oct 4, 2010 7:44 pm
... Refuted, of course, but obviously not by Gelb himself, who died in 1985. (though I have no access here to LPos) ... There you got it! As precaution, I...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Oct 5, 2010 2:37 pm
In a short article published online this morning by BAR: Elizabeth Shanks Alexander Archaeological Views: The Mystery Remains: Who Leaked the Scroll Pictures...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Oct 5, 2010 2:41 pm
Applications Open for Visiting Research Scholars Program (2011) ISAW is now accepting applications for its revised Visiting Research Scholars program....
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Jim West
drjewest
Oct 5, 2010 7:15 pm
the trial of oded golan and robert deutsch that is, and now its up to the judge to render a verdict ...
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eliot braun
eliotbraun
Oct 5, 2010 7:38 pm
According to the article this link leads to, that is a distinct possibility. ...
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Jim West
drjewest
Oct 5, 2010 7:48 pm
More importantly, why has BAR utterly ignored the verdict in the Golb trial and yet featured the not naked not archaeologist simcha jacobovici's search for...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Oct 5, 2010 9:56 pm
Rummaging in my brain to answer a query from a zoological colleague, I cannot find a specific reference to the Kultepe KK texts that mention the "black donkeys...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Oct 5, 2010 10:30 pm
... Look in CAD I/J, p. 113 s.v ime:ru f) qualifications. Plenty of Kultepe references to black donkeys but none that mention Assur specifically. Bob Whiting ...
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Jack Kilmon
jkilmon_2000
Oct 5, 2010 10:38 pm
... From: "eliot braun" <eliotbraun@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 9:38 AM To: "ANE" <ANE-2@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [ANE-2] Was King David a...
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Emanuel O. Pfoh
manupfoh
Oct 5, 2010 10:38 pm
Dear Trudy, try  -C. Michel, Innaya dans les tablettes paleoassyriennes (Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1991).   And,   -M. Ichisar,...
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Raz Kletter
raz.kletter
Oct 6, 2010 11:39 am
Dear Chuck, The daughter 'does not fall far' from the father. If I am not mistaken, the Huntington Library received the photographs for a noble aim - for...
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Nestor
nestor@...
Oct 8, 2010 8:20 pm
Issues from 2010 of Nestor, a bibliography of Aegean prehistory and related areas, are available in pdf format for download at...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Oct 8, 2010 9:25 pm
I bring sad news of the death of Iraqi archaeologist Selma al-Radi this week. An obituary will be forthcoming. ...
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Aaron Michael Butts
ambuchicago
Oct 9, 2010 6:14 pm
Dear all, The following Call for Papers might be of interest to some on this list: Duke University is hosting the Sixth North American Syriac Symposium on June...
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Rafal Kolinski
kolinskiiniraq
Oct 10, 2010 8:21 am
Dear Trudy, the most recent summary on the subject I know is an Appendix "Pack-Donkey" in: J.G.Dercksen, Old Assyrian Institutions, PIHANS XCVIII, Istanbul...
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fdscalf
Oct 11, 2010 2:34 pm
This course is taught by correspondence and does not meet in a classroom at any particular time. Students complete assignments on their own time. Taught by...
