Recently we chatted about suffixes in Egyptian grammar. Here's a similar question about Semitic. In English, should we use different terms for the personal...
... are online The aim of the Ebla Digital Archives [ EbDA ] database is to provide a digital edition of the entire corpus of cuneiform texts belonging to the...
Ben Haring sends news of 2 Ph.D. Student positions at Leiden: Symbolizing Identity Non-textual identity marks and their relation to writing in New Kingdom...
I think 'prefix' and 'suffix' are appropriate terms. When it comes to verbs, I distinguish 'subject prefixes' and 'subject suffixes' from 'object suffixes'....
Zahi Hawass, Egypt's powerful and controversial antiquities chief, resigned on Thursday along with the prime minister, afterposting on his Web site ...
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a_weber@...
Mar 4, 2011 5:06 pm
Dear ANE-2 members, I got a question concerning the following images of the Hittite Rock Sanctuary of Yazilikaya: ...
These are the two chief gods of the Hittites, also gods of the Hurrians. Teshub carries his mace/scepter/thunderbolt in his right arm, and has the signs of his...
The wikimedia picture is beautiful but it looks quite "cleaned up". It appears that someone drew scepters or wands extending down from the 'deus' symbol....
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a_weber@...
Mar 6, 2011 1:07 am
Dear Demetria, thank you for these extensive and helpful information! Best regards,Alessandro Dipl.-Kfm. Alessandro Weber Im Dau 12 50678 Cologne Germany ... ...
Dear colleagues, Might anyone have seen in the literature any proposals on the etymology of the GN Hanigalbat? Any help would be most welcome. Thanks very much...
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...
Dear all, My research on the etymology of Hanigalbat, for which so far I have not been able to find any detailed proposal, has led me to another question. ...
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...
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...
Before the Pyramids The Origins of Egyptian Civilization a special exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago March 29 to December 31,...
... 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...
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....
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Trudy Kawami wrote: <snip> ... As Francesco pointed out, once you get to the ePSD site you have to search for what you want. Down at the...
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...
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...
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...
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The Bronze Congress
terracottas@...
Mar 12, 2011 4:01 pm
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 ...
Dear List, ... I have come to think that the German archaeologist Burchard Brentjes was sincerely convinced that the griffins represented in Mitannian glyptic...
Left Coast's birthday is March 16, sandwiched between the Ides of March and St. Patrick's Day. Every car dealership and electronics store will be having a St....
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...
