--- In ANE-2@yahoogroups.com, Trudy Kawami <tkawami@...> wrote:

> Francesco,
>
> Without an image or a reference like a museum acc. No., it is hard
> to know exactly what you are referring to. Brentjes' did not write
> in English, so one would need to know the exact word he used which
> has been rendered in English as "peacock."

Trudy, I can assure you Brentjes is here referring to the peacock (Indian
peafowl, Pavo cristatus). See this other snippet from his article, in which he
speculates that the Mitanni Indo-Aryans brought the veneration of the peacock to
Nuzi from India (!):

http://tinyurl.com/6b6af6u

> The Mitanni images to which he seems to refer are in fact raptor-
> headed creatures with hooked beaks. Peacocks do not have hooked
> beaks, so these images cannot refer to peacocks.

You are right on this point -- see the only image I could find of a "griffin
with a peacock head" (according to Brentjes' description):

http://tinyurl.com/649lho3
(look for Pl. 2, Fig. 14)

However, in the same book Diana Stein asserts that the "griffin" as depicted on
Nuzi cylinder seals "has a bird (peacock) head" -- see at

http://tinyurl.com/6yspuk6

Indeed, the crest of this "griffin" looks like a peacock's one.

I cannot, however, trace any image of Brentjes' alleged "peacock dancer, masked"
in the iconographic apparatus of this book. Can you? (N.B. In his article
Brentjes refers to "the Nuzi cylinder-seals of Mittanian time [7, Nos 92, 662,
676, 856, 857 ao]. What are these?)

> As for the Sumerian term for "peacock", how is that written or
> transliterated?

Look for the word "haya" (= <ha-ia3>) in the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary at

http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/nepsd-frame.html
(with links)

Best,

Francesco Brighenti
Venice, Italy

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> From: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ANE-2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Francesco Brighenti
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 8:38 AM
> To: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ANE-2] The peacock in Mesopotamian and Elamite art
>
> Dear List,
>
> In an article by B. Brentjes ("The Mitannians and the Peacock", in M.S. Asimov
et al. (eds.), _Ethnic Problems of the History of Central Asia in the Early
Period_, Moscow, Soviet Committee on the Study of Civilization of Central Asia,
1981, pp. 145-148) there is a drawing of a peacok motif found on a
'standard-pole' from Susa (c. 2100 BCE):
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5tnunnr
> (unfortunately, the drawing in question is not visible in this snippet from
Brentjes' article)
>
> This art motif reportedly combines the head of a lion with the tail of a
peacock -- see, for instance, the hints given at
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6aor5qu
>
> We know that even the Sumerians imported many items from India, including
peacocks (called haya in Sumerian), in the late-third millennium BCE.
>
> Always according to Brentjes, in Mitannian art (15th century BCE) we find somy
cylinder-seals from Nuzi showing "two types of peacocks: the griffin with a
peacock head and the peacock dancer, masked and standing beside the holy tree of
life."
>
> My question is: Does anyone here have any clues as to whether (and, in case,
where and when) the peacock motif can be found in other art contexts in the ANE
in the intervening centuries, namely, from ca. 2000 to 1500 BCE?
>
> Any hints or bibliographic data would immensely help my personal quest for
elements of continuity in the representation of the peacock in the art of
Mesopotamia-Elam from the late-third to the second millennium BCE.
>
> Thanks in advance, and best regards.
>
> Francesco Brighenti
> Venice, Italy
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Francesco,
The problem with citing something on line is that the same pages are not
necessarily available to all readers. I was denied Pl. 2 but could see Pl. 3
which was no help.
I can only note that Brentjes may SPECULATE and Stein may ASSERT, but neither
are archaeolozoologists. Neither do they cite osteological or other objective
evidence for peacocks. There are many birds with crests, but few that have
identifiable showy tails like the peacock. Birds with large vertical showy tails
are not common in the arts of the ANE until the Parthian or Sasanian periods.
These representations, usually called simurg/senmerv do not have raptor's beaks.
They are clearly based on peacock images.
Please look at the Neo-Assyrian representations to see the later (early 1st mill
BCE) versions of the raptor-headed figure.
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/ancient_near_eastern_a\
rt/relief_panel/objectview.aspx?page=57&sort=0&sortdir=asc&keyword=&fp=56&dd1=3&\
dd2=0&vw=1&collID=3&OID=30001259&vT=1&hi=0&ov=0
or
http://tinyurl.com/65sy3nz

Underlying many of these speculations is the assumption that all connections
with South Asia were somehow direct and that the movement of one thing, the
peacock for instance, meant that all ideas & practices connected with it moved
as well. If you accept Brentjes" & Stein's identification, then you must also
consider all the Aegean griffons to be peacocks as well. It is sounder in terms
of method to look at the primary material, the actual images (not drawings of
them) as well as the zoological evidence, before drawing conclusions.

Perhaps someone else on the list can speak to the Sumerian term. Your link just
took me to the Penn site, not to the actual entry. One question would be
regarding the age of the earliest attestation. Just because a word is known in
Sumerian does not mean it was used in the third mill BCE.

We have strayed quite a bit from the Elamite aspect that you first raised. If
the "standard pole" that you mentioned came from Susa, it should be in the
Louvre. Their ANE  collection is quite searchable. Perhaps you could at least
find its acc. no. (should be Sb & then some digits) so I could look at it.
Trudy Kawami


From: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ANE-2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Francesco Brighenti
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 1:22 PM
To: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ANE-2] Re: The peacock in Mesopotamian and Elamite art




--- In ANE-2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:ANE-2%40yahoogroups.com>, Trudy Kawami
<tkawami@...<mailto:tkawami@...>> wrote:

> Francesco,
>
> Without an image or a reference like a museum acc. No., it is hard
> to know exactly what you are referring to. Brentjes' did not write
> in English, so one would need to know the exact word he used which
> has been rendered in English as "peacock."

Trudy, I can assure you Brentjes is here referring to the peacock (Indian
peafowl, Pavo cristatus). See this other snippet from his article, in which he
speculates that the Mitanni Indo-Aryans brought the veneration of the peacock to
Nuzi from India (!):

http://tinyurl.com/6b6af6u

> The Mitanni images to which he seems to refer are in fact raptor-
> headed creatures with hooked beaks. Peacocks do not have hooked
> beaks, so these images cannot refer to peacocks.

You are right on this point -- see the only image I could find of a "griffin
with a peacock head" (according to Brentjes' description):

http://tinyurl.com/649lho3
(look for Pl. 2, Fig. 14)

However, in the same book Diana Stein asserts that the "griffin" as depicted on
Nuzi cylinder seals "has a bird (peacock) head" -- see at

http://tinyurl.com/6yspuk6

Indeed, the crest of this "griffin" looks like a peacock's one.

I cannot, however, trace any image of Brentjes' alleged "peacock dancer, masked"
in the iconographic apparatus of this book. Can you? (N.B. In his article
Brentjes refers to "the Nuzi cylinder-seals of Mittanian time [7, Nos 92, 662,
676, 856, 857 ao]. What are these?)

> As for the Sumerian term for "peacock", how is that written or
> transliterated?

Look for the word "haya" (= <ha-ia3>) in the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary at

http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/nepsd-frame.html
(with links)

Best,

Francesco Brighenti
Venice, Italy

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On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Trudy Kawami wrote:

<snip>
> Perhaps someone else on the list can speak to the Sumerian term. Your
> link just took me to the Penn site, not to the actual entry. One
> question would be regarding the age of the earliest attestation. Just
> because a word is known in Sumerian does not mean it was used in the
> third mill BCE.

As Francesco pointed out, once you get to the ePSD site you have to search
for what you want.  Down at the bottom of the page at the center there is
a blank rectangle.  This is the search bar.  Type haya in there (or type
peacock if you prefer) and then click on the "GO" button.  Or, you can use
the URL http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/cbd/sux/H.html (WARNING:  You
have to scroll down to find the haya entry).  From there, there is a link
to the ePSD entry.

The Sumerian is d=ha-ia3(NI)=mu&en, where d is the divine determinative
and mu&en is a postpositional determinative indicating names of birds.
There are apparently only six occurrences, 1 lexical (OB HAR-ra=hubullu
IV, 2 examples) and 5 from Sumerian literary texts.  The ePSD entry has a
link to the ETCSL references to the literary texts.  The term is
apparently onomatopoeic since one of the literary references translates as
"cry of the peacock".  The lexical examples are available at CDLI, but you
have to search for them.  Unfortunately there is a fairly common Ur III
divine name, d=Ha-ia3, that is often a theophoric element in personal
names.  It likely has nothing to do with peacocks.

Since the references to haya are all literary/lexical as opposed to
administrative/economic recording live or dead peacocks, there is really
no evidence that there was ever a peacock in Mesopotamia in the third
millennium.  The literary reference were doubtless written by someone who
had seen (or heard tell of) a peacock, but who's to say where or when.

Bob Whiting
whiting@...

Here is the URL for Niek Veldhuis' discussion of Haya:

http://tinyurl.com/45zkyme

Marc Cooper
Missouri State

Thank you so much, Bob. Rather as I suspected, it's a very special but uncertain
kind of bird. Thank you also for advice on how to navigate Penn's site. I badly
needed it!
Trudy Kawami

From: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ANE-2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert M
Whiting
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 8:11 PM
To: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ANE-2] Re: The peacock in Mesopotamian and Elamite art



On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Trudy Kawami wrote:

<snip>
> Perhaps someone else on the list can speak to the Sumerian term. Your
> link just took me to the Penn site, not to the actual entry. One
> question would be regarding the age of the earliest attestation. Just
> because a word is known in Sumerian does not mean it was used in the
> third mill BCE.

As Francesco pointed out, once you get to the ePSD site you have to search
for what you want. Down at the bottom of the page at the center there is
a blank rectangle. This is the search bar. Type haya in there (or type
peacock if you prefer) and then click on the "GO" button. Or, you can use
the URL http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/cbd/sux/H.html (WARNING: You
have to scroll down to find the haya entry). From there, there is a link
to the ePSD entry.

The Sumerian is d=ha-ia3(NI)=mu&en, where d is the divine determinative
and mu&en is a postpositional determinative indicating names of birds.
There are apparently only six occurrences, 1 lexical (OB HAR-ra=hubullu
IV, 2 examples) and 5 from Sumerian literary texts. The ePSD entry has a
link to the ETCSL references to the literary texts. The term is
apparently onomatopoeic since one of the literary references translates as
"cry of the peacock". The lexical examples are available at CDLI, but you
have to search for them. Unfortunately there is a fairly common Ur III
divine name, d=Ha-ia3, that is often a theophoric element in personal
names. It likely has nothing to do with peacocks.

Since the references to haya are all literary/lexical as opposed to
administrative/economic recording live or dead peacocks, there is really
no evidence that there was ever a peacock in Mesopotamia in the third
millennium. The literary reference were doubtless written by someone who
had seen (or heard tell of) a peacock, but who's to say where or when.

Bob Whiting
whiting@...<mailto:whiting%40cc.helsinki.fi>



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Thank you, Marc. This is also very helpful.

I looked into francolins and found this lovely image of a black francolin - who
could be called "jeweled" with that lovely plumage.

http://www.north-india.in/fauna/Birds/black_francolin.htm

As for haya being like the call of a peacock, well from personal experience I
highly doubt it. The peacock (& peahen too) have exceedingly shrill & piercing
voices that they use at all hours of the day or night. They are not continually
vocal, but when they speak you can't help but hear.
Trudy Kawami (NYC where, yes, we have peacocks)

From: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ANE-2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of MarcC
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 1:12 AM
To: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ANE-2] Re: The peacock in Mesopotamian and Elamite art



Here is the URL for Niek Veldhuis' discussion of Haya:

http://tinyurl.com/45zkyme

Marc Cooper
Missouri State



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News has come of the death of Donny George in Toronto, March 11, 2011.

-Chuck Jones-
ISAW - NYU

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/03/12/uk.christie.writer.archaeology/in\
dex.html?hpt=Mid

Eliot Braun, Ph D
Sr. Fellow WF Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem
Associate Researcher Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem
PO Box 21, Har Adar 90836 Israel
Tel 972-2-5345687, Cell 972-50-2231096




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Dear ANE-2 List Members,

“News has come of the death of Donny George in Toronto, March 11, 2011.”

Many of us had come yesterday with great anticipation to hear the guest-lecture
of Donny George on the campus of the University of Toronto. It was quite
disappointing to hear that his lecture on the treasures at Nimrud was being
cancelled.

It was infinitely more disheartening to hear this morning that he had passed
away en route from Stony Brook (NY) to Toronto. We truly have lost one of the
giants in Mesopotamian archaeology.

Doug Petrovich
Toronto, Canada

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the XVIIth International Congress of
Ancient Bronzes will take place on May 21-25, 2011 in Izmir, Turkey. We
have just sent our 2nd Circular to the participants. We received more than
a hundred applications from 22 countries. We will try our best to
accommodate everybody with 60 lectures and the rest as posters. We want to
avoid parallel sessions, and only 60 lectures can be fitted into three
days. It is still possible to apply with a poster or to attend as an
observer. Please send an e-mail to Doc. Dr. Ergun LAFLI at elafli@...
or ergun.lafli@... with your abstract before 1 May 2011 for a
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS OF THE CONGRESS

20 May 2011

6:00 - 10:00 pm: Payment and Registration.

21 May 2011

Sabanci Cultural Center
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22 May 2011

9:30 am - 12:00 noon: Lectures: session 5.
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23 May 2011

9:30 am - 12:00 noon: Lectures: session 9.
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24 May 2011

9:30 am: Meeting for the archaeological tour of Izmir (individual
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NY), Dr Nadia GULYAEVA (St. Petersburg), and Dr Paula ZSIDI (Budapest).

FEES

The participation fee is 60 euro (or $US 100, or 30 British pounds, or 120
Turkish Lira). The fee includes Congress packages, coffee and refreshments
at breaks, name badges, the social dinner with wine at the
University’s restaurant on May 23, the busses for the post-Congress
excursion from Izmir to Bodrum and back on the same day as well as
publication of your abstract and paper in the Congress proceedings in
2012, both in printed and pdf versions.
The fee does not include your travel expenses to Izmir, accommodation,
food (except the final dinner on May 23), the booklet of abstracts and
distribution of printed proceedings book when it is out in 2012.

Extra and optional expenses:

1- Abstract booklet (optional; 5 euro, or US$ 10, or 15 TL).
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Bodrum (hotel to coach station).

PUBLICATION OF ABSTRACTS

The abstracts will be published with black-white photos in the Turkish
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the journal and you did not send it yet, please submit it as soon as
possible.
The journal issue with Conference abstracts will be available with your
registration packet at the Congress, and it will cost 5 euro (or US$ 10,
or 15 TL).

Thank you,

Ergun LAFLI

Dear List,

Trudy Kawami wrote:

> I can only note that Brentjes may SPECULATE and Stein may ASSERT,
> but neither are archaeolozoologists. Neither do they cite
> osteological or other objective evidence for peacocks. There are
> many birds with crests, but few that have identifiable showy tails
> like the peacock. Birds with large vertical showy tails are not
> common in the arts of the ANE until the Parthian or Sasanian
> periods. These representations, usually called simurg/senmerv do
> not have raptor's beaks. They are clearly based on peacock images.
>
> [...]
>
> Underlying many of these speculations is the assumption that all
> connections with South Asia were somehow direct and that the
> movement of one thing, the peacock for instance, meant that all
> ideas & practices connected with it moved as well. If you accept
> Brentjes' & Stein's identification, then you must also consider all
> the Aegean griffons to be peacocks as well.

I have come to think that the German archaeologist Burchard Brentjes was
sincerely convinced that the griffins represented in Mitannian glyptic art
included an exotic (= Indian) peacock-aspect within their hybrid iconography;
yet, Brentjes' is, in my opinion, a gross speculation based on optical illusion
(details below). Numerous proponents of an Indian origin of the elusive Mitanni
Indo-Aryan-speaking folks have stressed this theory of Brentjes' to the utmost
in order to assert that the Indo-Aryan-speaking groups supposedly residing in
the Kingdom of Mitanni had migrated there from India (the peacock's homeland),
and not from Central Asia as is generally held by mainstream scholars.

Besides those reproduced in my post archived at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ANE-2/message/13207 ,

I have found some more citations from Brentjes' works illustrating his theory:

1) "Maskenträger und Greifen mit dem Krönchen der Pfauen fallen besonders auf
und weisen weit nach dem Osten, da die Wildpfauen die Grenzberge zum Iran nicht
überschritten haben und Pfauentänzer noch im heutigen Indien ein große Rolle
spielen" (B. Brentjes, _Der Tierstil in Eurasien_, Leipzing, E.A. Seemann
Verlag, 1982, p. 56).

My rough English translation:

"[In Nuzi cylinder-seals] mask carriers and griffins with the coronet of peacock
are particularly noticeable and point far to the east, for wild peacocks did not
cross the mountains bordering on Iran and peacock-dancers still play a big role
in today's India."

2) "[T]he Mitanni (with Aryan gods and Aryan names) brought peacock-dancers and
mythical mixed creatures with peacock-heads to Mesopotamia in the 17th or 16th
century BC (Brentjes, 1976). This could be an element of an Aryan-migration, but
they came from the east, not from Europe" (B. Brentjes, "Indo-Aryan Problem and
Archaeology of Eurasia", _Journal of Central Asia_  11 [1988], p. 144).

3) "[T]he gryphon with a high crest known from Pazyryk (Brentjes and Vasilevsky
1989: pls. 20-21) [...] resembles the eagle-headed demon of Assyrian art and is
similar to the peacock-demon incised on Mitanni seals" (B. Brentjes, "�Animal
Style’ and Shamanism: Problems of Pictoral Tradition in Northern in Central
Asia", in J. Davis-Kimball et al. [eds.], _Kurgans, Ritual Sites, and
Settlements: Eurasian Bronze and Iron Age_, Oxford, Archaeopress, 2000, p. 261).

However, I now realize that the *sole* criterion used by Brentjes to identify
the bird-headed monsters and demons represented on Nuzi cylinder-seals as "mixed
creatures with peacock-heads", "peacock-demons", and "peacock-dancers"
variously, is the peacock-like crest most such mythical beings are provided
with. Brentjes calls this iconographic feature "das Krönchen der Pfauen" ('the
peacock's coronet' -- see citation above); yet, unfortunately for him, there is
*no other* iconographic feature (e.g. peacock-tail, peacock-"eyes", etc.)
attached to those mythical beings that may suggest their symbolic association
with the peacock. Their beak is, in most cases, hooked, and peacocks do not have
hooked beaks (thanks, Trudy, for pointing this out to me!). Therefore, Diana
Stein's assertion that "[in Nuzi cylinder-seals] the griffin has bird (peacock)
head" (see at <http://tinyurl.com/6yspuk6>), which was possibly influenced by
Brentjes' theory, appears totally unwarranted.

Indeed, according to other specialists in Mitannian cylinder-seals the "triple
crest" of both the griffin(-monster) and griffin-demon depicted at Nuzi (where
nearly 10% of the 1000 seals carry the griffin motif) consists, in the majority
of cases, of three feather-elements, each of which ends in a curl. A cylindrical
drill was used to engrave the curls of the griffin's crest elements. Such drill
holes are technically *identical* to those representing the twisted ends of the
plumes in all of the bird's wings engraved on Nuzi seals -- cf. the "Index of
Seal Impressions" at pp. 246ff. in Stein's book at

http://tinyurl.com/683lm79

Let us now see how other scholars have described the crest of the griffin-beings
depicted on the cylinder seals from Nuzi:

From E. Porada, _Seal Impressions of Nuzi_, New Haven, American Schools of
Oriental Research, 1947:

"[A] griffin[-monster] with the crest of three feathers [...] is the usual
representation on sealings belonging to the Elaborate Style [i.e. the
second-generation cylinder-seals of Nuzi according to Porada's own
classification -- FB]" (p. 40).

"The most frequent representations show [the griffin-demon] with a crest of
three feathers and a curl hanging down to the nape of his neck; his body is
human, but he has the claws of a bird. He has [...] both arms and wings. Less
frequent are those representations where the crest is replaced by one large
feather receding from the source of the griffin's beak. On a few sealings,
especially those where a double-headed griffin-demon is represented, the heads
are plainly those of birds, with neither crest nor large receding feather" (p.
74).

From J.L. Crowley, _The Aegean and the East: An Investigation into the
Transference of Artistic Motifs between the Aegean, Egypt and the Near East in
the Bronze Age_, Jonsered, Paul Åströms förlag, 1989, p. 51:

"For eastern traditions it is Mitannian art that creates the true Griffin motif.
Its iconographical features are crest with curl and three elements, violent
action poses, and selected details from the Heraldic Poses repertoire."

QUESTION:

***A crest made of three feather-elements ending in a curl is not necessarily a
peacock's crest, is it?***

As to Brentjes' supposed "peacock-dancers", they are actually identified by
Porada as griffin-demons portrayed in a (likely) dancing pose:

"Masked dance [...] -- In a few instances [on Nuzi cylinder seals], figures can
be quite clearly recognized, I believe, as wearing masks. In all these cases
(Nos. 93, 651, 791, 792) the masks are those of griffins. The head and wing of
the griffin are apparently made of one piece and seem to be drawn over the head
and part of the upper body of a human personage. The appearance of this type of
'griffin-demon' accordingly varies completely from such representations as No.
793, where the head of the griffin rises organically from a human neck and the
wings grow from the shoulders. On No. 792 such a griffin-mask appears in contest
with a lion. In place of a realistic struggle, however, the two figures, lion
and griffin-mask, give the impression of executing the rhythmic steps of a dance
figure. This suggests the possibility that a masked dance is here represented,
and that, as anticipated above, this type of dance should be added to the
choreographic repertoire of  Nuzi. The other two representations of the
griffin-masks show them with a vase, from which a stream of water flows on No.
791. Both actions, ritual dance and libation, could have been easily performed
by priests and observed by the engravers of our sealings. The fact that masks
were used in religious practices of the Akkadian conjurer-priests (cf. Oppenheim
JAOS LXIII p. 32), which are documented by texts, supports this contention. One
of these masks was the _pân is.s.ûri¬_, the mask of a bird; the
identification with our griffin-mask is obvious. We thus have two
representations of the griffin-demon on the sealings of Nuzi: one, the portrayal
of a human conjurer-priest who bound the mask over his head and thus became the
griffin-demon whose beneficial functions he acted out; the other, the
griffin-demon as the genuine superhuman creature in whom the features of the
bird (such as the head and claws) were organically combined with a human body"
(Porada, op. cit., pp. 120-21).

Best,

Francesco Brighenti
Venice, Italy

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Donny George, Protector of Iraq’s Ancient Riches, Dies at 60
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: March 14, 2011

Donny George, an esteemed Iraqi archaeologist who tried to stop the looters
ransacking the Iraq National Museum after the invasion of 2003, then led in
recovering thousands of stolen artifacts in the ensuing years, died on Friday in
Toronto. He was 60.

Read the rest at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/world/middleeast/15george.html

-Chuck Jones-
ISAW - NYU

Trudy Kawami wrote:

> We have strayed quite a bit from the Elamite aspect that you first
> raised. If the "standard pole" that you mentioned came from Susa,
> it should be in the Louvre. Their ANE  collection is quite
> searchable. Perhaps you could at least find its acc. no. (should be
> Sb & then some digits) so I could look at it.

After doing some additional research, I can declare that the 'mystery' of B.
Brentjes' claim about some "standard poles" from Susa bearing the peacock motif
is solved.

Actually, the English translation "standard-pole", chosen to designate one of
such objects in an article of Brentjes', is mistaken. What the German scholar
means by that term is, in case, 'a standard top (made of metal)'. Indeed, in a
German article of his he calls that same artifact either "Hammer" or
"Standartenkopf".

The pieces Brentjes refers to in a number of publications of his in order to
show that Old Elamite art knew (before 2100 BCE) of the "peacock motif", are
just two. One is a silver socketed hammer preserved in the National Museum of
Iran, and the other, a bronze shaft-hole hammer preserved in the Louvre Museum.
Both these ceremonial weapons can, in fact, be broadly defined as 'standard
tops'. They are illustrated with drawings in French archaeologist R. de
Mecquenem's article "Têtes de cannes susiennes en métal" (_Revue
d'Assyriologie et d'Archéologie orientale_ 47 [1953], pp. 79-82), which is
available online at

http://tinyurl.com/4acbpug
(silver socketed hammer: Fig. 2.3; bronze shaft-hole hammer: Fig. 2.4a)

These two drawings by de Mecquenem are reproduced in some publications of
Brentjes' to visually support his own ideas on the presence of a "peacock motif"
in Old Elamite art. As one can easily show, however, there is no support for
Brentjes' alleged discovery of a "peacock motif" on these two metal pieces
recovered during excavations at Susa.

Details:

1) Brentjes' "proto-SĂŞnmurw" (as he interprets what he opines to be a mixed
mythical animal represented on the silver socketed hammer from Susa, Fig. 2.3 in
de Mecquenem's article):

Excerpt from B. Brentjes _Der Tierstil in Eurasien_, Leipzig, E.A. Seemann,
1982, p. 58:

"Ein ähnlicher Hammer mit Pfauenschwanz trägt einen Schlangenkopf und erinnert
damit an den späteren iranischen Senmurv, den Pfauendrachen der Sasaniden."

My tentative English translation of the above passage:

"[A] hammer with peacock's tail carries a snake head, and because of that it is
reminiscent of the later Iranian Senmurv, the peacock-dragon of the Sassanians."

However, in an English article published by Brentjes just one year later, the
"snake" has become a "mammal":

"[T]he oldest form [of the SĂŞnmurw] was found in old-Elamite art. A
'standard'-pole from Susa [...] combines the head of a mammal with the tail of a
peacock" (B. Brentjes, "Contributions to the Iconography of Some Picture-Motifs
of Central Asia", in G. Barthel and L. Rathmann, [eds.], _The Arab world and
Asia between Development and Change_, Berlin, Akademie, 1983, p. 283. Here it
may be noted that Brentjes erroneously adds that "an inscription refers [this
artifact] into the time of king Shulgi", whereas it is *the other* artifact from
Susa he discusses, i.e. the bronze shaft-hole hammer in the Louvre, that bears
that inscription!).

It must also be noticed that de Mecquenem, at p. 80 of his article linked to
above, tentatively identifies the extremely stylized animal-head forming the
curved portion of the hammer in question as a bird's (raptor's or gallinacean's)
head. Therefore, there appears to be total uncertainty as to what animal the
head belongs to. But what I want to specially stress here is that the "peacock's
tail" mentioned by Brentjes is identified as such by him on the basis of no
objective evidence. Indeed, according to de Mecquenem this is not the artistic
rendering of a bird's (not to say a peacock's) tail, but rather a "wing placed
by the side of the [hammer's] socket, [...] identified by some ribs [and] ending
in four simulacra of curls" (p. 80; translation from French mine). The
"peacock's tail" -- and, together with it, the inference that this is a
representation of a "proto-SĂŞnmurw" -- is merely a speculation of Brentjes'.

1) Brentjes' "peacock-hammer" (as he interprets the bronze shaft-hole hammer
from Susa, Fig. 2.4a in de Mecquenem's article):

See also the two pictures of this artifact in the Louvre's website at

http://tinyurl.com/6x9u42p
(the caption at the Louvre recites: "Marteau orné de deux têtes et d'un
plumage d'oiseau. Inscription du roi Shulgi 'héros puissant, roi d'Ur, roi de
Sumer et d'Akkad'.")

De Mecquenem (p. 80 in the article) states that what Brentjes would have later
interpreted, also in this case, as a hanging tail decorated with "eyes" that
would therefore be likely to again have the peacock as a model ("einem
hängenden Schwanz, der mit »Augen« geschmückt ist, also wahrscheinlich
wieder den Pfau als Vorbild hat", p. 58 in Brentjes' book _Der Tierstil in
Eurasien_ cited above), is a wing analogous to that of the silver socketed
hammer from Susa described above on account of its being decorated on both faces
by three series of triple ribs ending in three buttons or curls (p. 80 in de
Mecquenem's article). Even the two bird's heads do not resemble peacock's heads
at all -- they may respectively belong to a raptor and a gallinacean instead,
yet this, too, is speculative.

According to a more recent study, "[this] weapon is of a type closely related to
votive axes or tops of standards from eastern Iran and Bronze Age Bactria in
western Central Asia. The long plumes on [sic -- FB] the bird's heads suggest
that they may belong to supernatural birds, probably double-headed bird-demons
-- a type of fantastic animal that may have had its origins in eastern Iran" (E.
Carter et al., "The Old Elamite Period, circa 2700-1500 B.C.", in P.O. Harper,
J. Aruz & F. Tallon [eds.], _The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern
Treasures in the Louvre_, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, p. 92).
Also archaeologist T.F. Potts (_Mesopotamia and the East: An Archaeological and
Historical Study of Foreign Relations ca. 3400-2000 B.C._, Oxford Committee for
Archaeology, 1994, p. 176) says this bronze hammer is typologically Bactrian
with plume-like extensions at the back ending in curls and birds' heads rising
from the top, and is surely an exotic item. A very similar hammer of purer
stylization and finer workmanship, dated to the same period (ca. 2000 BCE), is
also said to be from Bactria (G. Ortiz, _In Pursuit of the Absolute: Art of the
Ancient World from the George Ortiz Collection_, London, Royal Academy, 1994, p.
15) -- see picture at

http://tinyurl.com/5sqphbs

It remains to see whether the other artifact too -- namely, the above referred
silver socketed hammer from Susa -- can have originated in Bactria. This is not
impossible if one considers that the plume-like extensions at its back, rendered
by means of ribs ending in lock- or button-like curls, are typologically almost
identical to those observable in the bronze shaft-hole hammer preserved in the
Louvre, which, as we have seen, is currently thought to be of Bactrian origin.
If this were the case, Brentjes' theory about the appearance of a "peacock
motif" in Old Elamite art before 2100 BCE would simply crumble, given that the
two metal objects he attempts to base it on would, in this case, prove to be two
non-Elamite artifacts. Anyway, even if one or both of those two artifacts could
be shown to have been produced in Elam, Brentjes' assertion that they display
"tail"-extensions decorated with peacock-"eyes" would remain unsubstantiated,
being merely a personal *opinion* of his not shared, so far as I could
ascertain, by any other ANE specialist.

Best,

Francesco Brighenti
Venice, Italy

John L. Foster

We regret to announce the death of John L. Foster on 25th January 2011.  A
well-known translator of ancient Egyptian literature, his more popular volumes
include Love Songs of the New Kingdom, Echoes of Egyptian Voices, Hymns,
Prayers, and Songs, The Shipwrecked Sailor, and Ancient Egyptian Literature: An
Anthology.

Jack was professor of American literature at Roosevelt University in Chicago
from 1966 until his retirement in 1994.  He was chairman of the English
Department and active in university-wide administration, including service on
the Board of Trustees.  He also had a long association with the Oriental
Institute of the University of Chicago concurrent with his tenure at Roosevelt;
this relationship was formalized at his retirement when he became a Research
Associate there.  His work focused on the structure of ancient Egyptian verse
and he published extensively in his field on varied topics such as the thought
couplet and grammatical structures in literary texts.  He also applied his
training in literary theory to approach ancient Egyptian literature as
literature, to discuss methods of translation, as well as to highlight the
myriad details that enhance a reading of a literary text and enrich the reader's
appreciation.  His translations were recognized for their accessibility and
craftsmanship, which may be the reason his were some of the first to appear in
standard textbooks surveying the masterpieces of world literature.  He was an
active member of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities as well as
the American Research Center in Egypt and edited their journal, JARCE, for some
years.

He is survived by his wife, Gloria, and their three children: Ann, Kristen, and
Robert, as well as grandson and namesake, John.

A memorial service will be held at the First United Methodist Church of Evanston
on 16th April 2011 at 2:00 p.m. in Tittle Chapel.  In lieu of flowers,
contributions may be made in Jack's name to the Oriental Institute of the
University of Chicago (1155 E. 58th Street, Chicago, IL  60637).

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Dear all,

I am glad to announce the publication of the following article in the Journal of
Hebrew Scriptures (http://www.jhsonline.org)

Journal of Hebrew Scriptures - Volume 11: Article 4 (2011)

Veronika Bachmann, “The Book of The Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36): An Anti-Mosaic,
Non-Mosaic, or Even Pro-Mosaic Writing?"

Abstract:

The Book of the Watchers (BW) is generally considered a non-Mosaic if not an
anti-Mosaic writing. In more recent research, discussions on the meaning of such
labels are ever so prevalent. Nevertheless, the positions do not move far beyond
the common patterns of interpretation. The present paper explores the different
presuppositions and arguments supporting the assumption of the non- or even
anti-Mosaic character of the BW and proposes a reading beyond the antagonism
“Enochic” versus “Mosaic.”

To access the article directly please go to
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_151.pdf


Regards

Ehud
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Dear all,

I am glad to announce the publication of the following reviews in the Journal of
Hebrew Scriptures (http://www.jhsonline.org)

• Cotrozzi, Stefano, Expect the Unexpected: Aspects of Pragmatic Foregrounding
in Old Testament Narratives (LHBOTS, 510: New York: T & T Clark, 2010).
(Reviewed by Krzysztof J. Baranowski)

• Crane, Ashley S., Israel's Restoration: A Textual-Comparative Exploration of
Ezekiel 36–39 (VTSup, 122; Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2008). (Reviewed by Iain M.
Duguid)

• Fleming, Daniel E. and Sara J. Milstein, The Buried Foundation of the
Gilgamesh Epic: The Akkadian Huwawa Narrative (CM, 39; Leiden: Brill, 2010).
(Reviewed by Scott C. Jones)

• Green, Deborah A. and Laura S. Lieber (eds.), Scriptural Exegesis: The
Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination, Essays in Honour of Michael
Fishbane (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).  (Reviewed by William A.
Tooman)

• Hagedorn, Anselm C. and Henrik Pfeiffer (eds.), Die Erzväter in der
biblischen Tradition: Festschrift für Matthias Köckert (BZAW, 400; Berlin, de
Gruyter, 2009). (Reviewed by Christophe Nihan)

• Jones, Scott C., Rumors of Wisdom: Job 28 as Poetry (BZAW, 398; Berlin, New
York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009). (Reviewed by August H. Konkel)

• Moberly, R. W. L., The Theology of the Book of Genesis (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009). Reviewed by Tim Stone)

• Petterson, Anthony R., Behold Your King: The Hope for the House of David in
the Book of Zechariah (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies; New York:
T & T Clark, 2009). (Reviewed by Anna Suk Yee Lee)

• Tebes, Juan Manuel, Centro y Periferia en el mundo antiguo: El Negev y sus
interacciones con Egipto, Asiria, y el Levante en la Edad del Hierro (1200-586
a.C.) (Ancient Near East Monographs, 1; 2nd ed.; Buenos Aires/Atlanta: SBL &
CEHAO, 2008). (Reviewed by Romina Della Casa)

• Tuckett, Christopher (ed.), Feasts and Festivals (Contributions to Biblical
Exegesis & Theology, 53; Leuven: Peeters, 2009). (Reviewed by Peter Altmann)

• Webster, Brian L., The Cambridge Introduction to Biblical Hebrew with CD-ROM
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). (Reviewed by H. Daniel Zacharias)


To access all published reviews directly please go
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/reviews_vol.html

Regards

Ehud
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Ehud Ben Zvi
History and Classics
University of Alberta
2-28 HM Tory Building
Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2H4

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The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 7th Symposium
Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond
Organizer: Natalie N. May
http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/symposia/2011.html

Program
Friday, April 8
9:00-9:15 am: Opening by the Director of the Oriental Institute (Gil Stein)
9:15-9:30 am: Introduction (Natalie Naomi May – the Oriental Institute)

Session 1. `Iconoclasm Begins at Sumer' and Akkad
Chair: Miguel Civil
9:30-10:00 am: Christopher Woods, The Oriental Institute "Mutilation of Text and
Image in Early Sumerian Sources"
10:00-10:30 am:  Claudia E. Suter, University of Basel, Switzerland, "Why Gudea
of Lagash?"
10:30-11:00 am: Joan Goodnick Westenholz, New York University, Institute for the
Study of the Ancient World, "Damnatio Memoriae: Destruction of Name and
Destruction of Person in Third-Millennium Mesopotamia"
11:00-11:30 am: Coffee break

Session 2. Iconoclasm as an Instrument of Politics
Chair: Marian Feldman
11:30 am-12:00 noon: Hanspeter Schaudig, University of Heidelberg, "Death of
Statues and Rebirth of Gods"
12:00 noon-12:30 pm: Angelika Berlejung, University of Leipzig and University of
Stellenbosch, "Shared Fates: The Assyrian Religious Policy in the West"
12:30-1:00 pm: JoAnn Scurlock, Elmhurst College, "Getting Smashed at the Victory
Celebration, or What Happened to Esarhaddon's so-called Vassal Treaties and Why"
1:00-2:00 pm: Lunch break

Session 3. How the Images Die and Why?
Chair: Robert Biggs
2:00-2:30 pm: Natalie N. May, The Oriental Institute "mAli-talīmu, or What
Can Be Learned from the Destruction of Figurative Complexes"
2:30-3:00 pm: Seth Richardson, The Oriental Institute "The Hypercoherent Icon:
Knowledge, Rationalization, and Disenchantment in Mesopotamia"

Saturday, April 9
Session 4. The Ancient Near East beyond Mesopotamia
Chair: Janet Johnson
9:00-9:30 am: Nathaniel Levtow, University of Montana, "The Life and Death of
Images and Texts: Correlations and Social Relations in the Ancient Near East"
9:30-10:00 am: Betsy M. Bryan, Johns Hopkins University "Episodes of Iconoclasm
in the Egyptian New Kingdom"
10:00-10:30 am: Petra Goedegebuure, The Oriental Institute "Iconoclasm in
Hittite Society: Certainly not Present, and Perhaps Impossible"
10:30-10:45 am:  Coffee break

Session 5. Classical Antiquity and Byzantium
Chair: Richard Neer
10:45-11:15 am: Silke Knippschild, University of Bristol, "Performing the
Frontier: The Abduction and Destruction of Religious and Political Signifiers in
Greco-Persian Conflicts"
11:15-11:45 am: Robin Cormack. University of Cambridge, Great Britain, "Looking
for Iconophobia and Iconoclasm in Late Antiquity and Byzantium"
11:45-12:45 am – Lunch break

Session 6. Reformation and Modernity
Chair: Walter Kaegi
12:45–1:15 pm: Lee Palmer Wandel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Idolatry and
Iconoclasm: Alien Religions and Reformation"
1:15-1:45 pm: W.J.T. Mitchell, The University of Chicago, "Idolatry: Nietzsche,
Blake, Poussin"
1:45-2:15 pm: Irene Winter, Harvard University - Respondent

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Hello from Ankara.

The Kerkenes Project, 2010 Preliminary Report, can be downloaded from
the following link:

The Kerkenes reports download page:
http://www.kerkenes.metu.edu.tr/kerk2/index.html

Direct link to the Kerkenes 2010 Report in English
http://www.kerkenes.metu.edu.tr/kerk2/17downlds/reportPdf/10kerkrepeng.pdf

Direct link to the Kerkenes 2010 Report in Turkish
http://www.kerkenes.metu.edu.tr/kerk2/17downlds/reportPdf/10kerkreptr.pdf

Best,

Geoff

--
Geoffrey SUMMERS
Settlement Archaeology Graduate Program
Institute of Social Sciences
Middle East Technical University
Ankara TR-06531, TURKEY.

Office Tel: (90) 312 210 6213
Home Tel/Fax: (90) 312 210 1485
The Kerkenes Project Tel: (90) 312 210 6216
http://www.kerkenes.metu.edu.tr

For the benefit of those (there are some) who are not using facebook and
therefore cannot see the Remembering Donny George page there
(http://www.facebook.com/pages/Remembering-Donny-George/210844302263973), I'm
listing the obituaries and other linked documents which have been posted there. 
I have not reproduced the personal comments.

You'll find them at
http://ancientworldbloggers.blogspot.com/2011/03/remembering-donny-george.html

-Chuck Jones-
ISAW - NYU

With apologies fro cross-posting
 
8th ICAANE Warsaw, April 30th - May 4th 2012
 
2nd circulaire, 25th March 2011
 
 
ON-LINE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
 
Dear Colleagues,
 
we would like to inform you that an on-line module allowing registration,
payment of conference fee and submitting of abstracts is working since March
25th at the conference website www.8icaane.org. Please, go there for more
information and to fill in the registration form.

Organizers also would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused by a delay
in launching the registration module.
 
 
Forthcoming deadlines (reminder):
 
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April 25th 2011 – publication of the list of approved workshops at the 8th 
ICAANE website.
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papers
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January 1st 2012. To register as a student, please send the number and validity
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/science/15obfire.html?src=recg

Eliot Braun, Ph D
Sr. Fellow WF Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem
Associate Researcher Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem
PO Box 21, Har Adar 90836 Israel
Tel 972-2-5345687, Cell 972-50-2231096




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Dear all,

I am glad to announce the publication of the following article in the Journal of
Hebrew Scriptures (http://www.jhsonline.org)

Journal of Hebrew Scriptures - Volume 11: Article 5 (2011)

Moshe Garsiel, “David’s Elite Warriors and Their Exploits in the Books of
Samuel and Chronicles"

Abstract:

This article examines various descriptions of David and his warriors. Whereas
the early pro-monarchic author of David’s story glorifies his military
activity, the later anti-monarchic author of Samuel diminishes the admiration by
revealing that Abishai saved his King’s life, and the king was banned from
fighting activity. The warriors’ anecdotes disclose that David’s killing of
Goliath was far from being unmatched; other warriors killed the Rephaim giants
as well. In Chronicles, however, the rosters of David’s heroes demonstrate the
comprehensive support of his accession, while his heroes’ exploits are part of
his warfare against the Philistines. The booty of war was instrumental in
building the temple.

To access the article directly please go to
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_152.pdf


Regards

Ehud
-----
The printed version of volume 9 (2009) has been published. For information
please go to
http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/showproduct.aspx?ISBN=978-1-61143-004-2
For information about the printed version of volume 8 (2008) please go to
http://www.gorgiaspress.com/BOOKSHOP/pc-56678-10-ben-zvi-ehud-perspectives-on-he\
brew-scriptures-v.aspx

For information about the other printed volumes of the journal, please go to:
http://www.gorgiaspress.com/BOOKSHOP/pc-56678-10-ben-zvi-ehud-perspectives-on-he\
brew-scriptures-v.aspx

The Logos version of vol. 8 has been released. For information please go to
http://www.logos.com/product/8765/journal-of-hebrew-scriptures-vol-8. For
information about the Logos version of vols. 1-7, please go to
http://www.logos.com/products/details/4336.

The Logos version of volume 9 of the journal is being prepared.

Ehud Ben Zvi
History and Classics
University of Alberta
2-28 HM Tory Building
Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2H4

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The Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente (CEHAO), Catholic
University of Argentina,
is pleased to announce the conference:


"The Contribution of the Excavations of Megiddo to the Study of the Late Bronze
and Iron Ages"

Prof. Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University)


Thursday, March 31, 2011, 19:00 - 20:30 hs.

Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina
Room 261 - Edificio San Alberto Magno, Av. Alicia Moreau de Justo 1500

Buenos Aires, Argentina
The conference will be in English, open to all public and free. Previous
inscription is needed.

Inscription: cehao_uca@...
More information at http://www.uca.edu.ar/cehao
Check our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=208703295538&v=wall



Juan Manuel Tebes
Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente
Departamento de Historia
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Políticas y de la Comunicación
Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina
Av. Alicia Moreau de Justo 1500, Ed. San Alberto Magno
P.B. C1107AFD Buenos Aires Argentina
Tel.: (054-11)4349-0200 ext. 1189


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List members may find this article of interest.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/books/the-rise-and-fall-of-ancient-egypt-revie\
w.html?hpw


Eliot Braun, Ph D
Sr. Fellow WF Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem
Associate Researcher Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem
PO Box 21, Har Adar 90836 Israel
Tel 972-2-5345687, Cell 972-50-2231096




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ANTIGUO ORIENTE 8 (2010)


Articles
7 A Fragmentary Cuneiform Tablet from the Ophel (Jerusalem): Methodological
Musings about the Proposed Genre and Sitz im Leben
Christopher Rollston
23 The Pottery of A and C-Group Tombs at Serra West in the Museum of Natural
History, La Plata
Perla Fuscaldo
75 Proto-Alphabetic Inscriptions from the Wadi Arabah
Brian Colless
97 A Theoretical Perspective of the Telepinu Myth: Archetypes and Initiation in
Historical Contexts
Romina Della Casa
117 Sources of Contention and the Emerging Reality concerning Qohelet’s Carpe
Diem Advice
John Kelly
135 La conexión árabe: una hipótesis sobre el surgimiento sociopolítico de
Israel en Palestina
Emanuel Pfoh
161 A Possible Alchemist Apparatus from the Early Islamic Period Excavated at
Ramla, Israel
Amir Gorzalczany & Baruch Rosen

Excavation Reports
183 Tell el-Ghaba, Sinaí Norte: Campaña de Excavación 2010. Informe
Preliminar
Adriana Chauvin

Book Reviews
201 Isaac Kalimi, An Ancient Israelite Historian: Studies in the Chronicler, His
Time, Place and Writing
Isaac Kalimi, The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles
(Juan Manuel Tebes)
205 Izak Cornelius, The Many Faces of the Goddess. The Iconography of the
Syro-Palestinian Goddess Anat, Astarte, Qedeshet, and Asherah c. 1500-1000 BCE
(Allan Rodrigo Bornapé Muñoz)
208 Nils Anfinset, Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact. The Middle East and North
Africa
(Carolina Quintana)
211 MarĂ­a Eugenia Aubet, Comercio y Colonialismo en el PrĂłximo Oriente
Antiguo.
Los antecedentes Coloniales del III y II Milenios a. C.
(Jorge Cano, Ariel Eiris & Federico Oneto)
214 Juan José Castillos, Cómo surgieron los faraones. Los  orígenes de la
estratificaciĂłn social en el antiguo Egipto
(Augusto Gayubas)
217 Maynard Paul Maidman, Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence
(Emanuel Pfoh)


Antiguo Oriente is the annual, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published by the
CEHAO. The journal publishes manuscripts related to the history of societies of
the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Paleolithic through
the Roman-Hellenistic period. Antiguo Oriente publishes articles and book
reviews in Spanish, English and French. The journal is indexed in BiBIL,
University of Lausanne, Suiza; CLASE, Universidad AutĂłnoma de MĂ©xico; DIALNET,
Universidad de La Rioja, España; EBSCO, EE.UU.; Google Scholar; LATINDEX
(catálogo), México; LIBRARY of CONGRESS, Washington DC, EE.UU.; RAMBI, Jewish
National and University Library, Jerusalén, Israel; RefDoc, Centre Nationale de
la Recherche Scientifique, Francia; Ulrich’s, EE.UU; and the Núcleo  Básico
de
Publicaciones PeriĂłdicas CientĂ­ficas y TecnolĂłgicas Argentinas (CONICET).


Director: Roxana Flammini; Vice-Director: Juan Manuel Tebes

Editorial Board: Alejandro F. Botta, Boston University, USA; Josep CervellĂł
Autuori, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Amir Gorzalczany, Israel
Antiquities Authority, Israel; Ann E. Killebrew, Pennsylvania State University,
USA; Philip Kohl, Wellesley College, USA; René Krüger, ISEDET, Universidad
CatĂłlica Argentina, Argentina; Robert A. Mullins, Azusa Pacific University,
USA;
Émile Puech, École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem;
Christophe
Rico, Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem; Gonzalo Rubio,
Pennsylvania State University, USA; Marcel Sigrist, École Biblique et
Archéologique Française de Jérusalem; Itamar Singer, Tel Aviv University,
Israel.

Antiguo Oriente Webpage:http://www.uca.edu.ar/cehao
Email: cehao_uca(at)yahoo.com.ar

Juan Manuel Tebes

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James writes

http://anebooks.blogspot.com/2011/03/final-djd-volumes-finally.html

The final two volumes of the /Discoveries in the Judean Desert/ (DJD)
were finally published and arrived last Friday. The copyright date says
2010, but they just were printed recently. This marks the end of the
series, as far as I can tell. Initially they thought it would take, what
10 years? Well, 1947-2011 is a bit longer than 10 years---more like 64
years, but it beat the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary!   Here's a question,
though: how many of the original editors are still alive? The only one I
can think of is Frank Moore Cross. Is there anybody else?

if you know the answer i'm sure he would love to hear from you.

--
+++++++
Jim West, ThD
Petros, TN



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Dear all,

I'll pose the same two questions you that I did to a colleague at Johns
Hopkins lately. Here they are, more or less as I posed them in them e-mail
to him (thank goodness for copy and paste functions!):

1. Do you know of any good reason to believe that the PSem. radical *gzz
ever had an original sense of "to comb," "to pluck (by combing)," or "to
card"? I noticed, as others my field have, that the OI Assyrian
Dictionary, under the lemma gazaazu, speculates that it may be reflected
in a (presumably Akkadian) loan-word *gazzu in Sumerian, glossed as
"comb." It seems this conjecture is based partly on the assumption that
effective shears, as opposed to combs, cannot be manufactured from bronze.

However, Ugaritic gzz "shearers" (with reference to both strippers of
animals and reapers of wheat, it seems), scriptural Hebrew gaazaz "to
shear," also with the sense of "mowing" and "destroying" (the enemy, like
Hom. 'áđďęĺßńů), Aramaic gezaaz (vowelized correctly, I think; id.), and
Arabic jazza "to clip, shear, shear off" (fem. juzaazah "strip of paper,
label" suggesting more than just bucolic connotations) indicate to me that
the etymon is "shearing," "cutting off," or "cutting down."

2. Do you know of any object thought to be or to represent LBA (in
particular) shears in the ANE or adjacent regions? There are the famously
well preserved bronze, single-piece, spring-action shears from Flag Fen in
Cambridgeshire, but the date and purpose are uncertain, although they
appear at least to show that the technology is feasible.

I would be much obliged for your assistance.

Michael Lane
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

"Archaeologists explore Iraqi marshes for origins of urbanization

The first non-Iraqi archaeological investigation of the Tigris-Euphrates delta
in 20 years was a preliminary foray by three women who began to explore the
links between wetland resources and the emergence and growth of cities last
year.

"Foreign investigations in Iraq stopped in the 1990s," said Carrie Hritz,
assistant professor of anthropology, Penn State. "Iraqis continued research, but
because their work is unpublished, we are unsure of where they surveyed."

The marshlands in Iraq and Iran were drained between 1950 and the 1990s. While
initial explanations were that Iraq needed the land for agricultural uses, more
often than not, politics played a role. After the first Gulf war, Saddam Hussein
drained the areas between the Tigris and Euphrates to control and punish Shia
dissidents among the Marsh Arabs.

Restoration of the Hammar marshes is now a high national priority. If we do not
act quickly, the window of opportunity for conducting work in this region will
close, according to the researchers who include Hritz; Jennifer Pournelle,
research assistant professor, School of the Environment, University of South
Carolina, and Jennifer Smith, associate professor of geology, Washington
University in St. Louis...

Read the rest at:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-03/ps-aei032311.php

-Chuck Jones-
ISAW - NYU