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...
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Caryn M. Berg
carynberg
Mar 14, 2011 3:08 pm
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....
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Francesco Brighenti
frabrig
Mar 14, 2011 3:06 pm
Dear List, ... I have come to think that the German archaeologist Burchard Brentjes was sincerely convinced that the griffins represented in Mitannian glyptic...
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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 ...
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Douglas Petrovich
ane.fan
Mar 12, 2011 4:00 pm
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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eliot braun
eliotbraun
Mar 12, 2011 4:00 pm
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/03/12/uk.christie.writer.archaeology/index.html?hpt=Mid Eliot Braun, Ph D Sr. Fellow WF Albright Institute of...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Mar 12, 2011 1:51 pm
News has come of the death of Donny George in Toronto, March 11, 2011. -Chuck Jones- ISAW - NYU...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Mar 9, 2011 5:29 pm
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...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Mar 9, 2011 5:18 pm
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...
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MarcC
marc.cooper
Mar 9, 2011 6:12 am
Here is the URL for Niek Veldhuis' discussion of Haya: http://tinyurl.com/45zkyme Marc Cooper Missouri State...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Mar 9, 2011 1:10 am
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...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Mar 8, 2011 11:25 pm
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....
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Francesco Brighenti
frabrig
Mar 8, 2011 9:20 pm
... 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...
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fdscalf
Mar 8, 2011 8:48 pm
Before the Pyramids The Origins of Egyptian Civilization a special exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago March 29 to December 31,...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Mar 8, 2011 5:44 pm
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...
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Stephen Goranson
goranson11
Mar 8, 2011 1:51 pm
I have no opinion on the matter, but here's what Albright wrote (American journal of philology, 43 p.167): ...
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Francesco Brighenti
frabrig
Mar 8, 2011 1:50 pm
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...
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Miguel
mfg_valerio
Mar 8, 2011 1:12 pm
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. ...
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ehud
ebenzvi
Mar 8, 2011 6:36 am
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...
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Miguel
mfg_valerio
Mar 7, 2011 7:51 pm
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...
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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 ... ...
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Phoenix
hail_isis
Mar 5, 2011 6:52 am
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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Phoenix
hail_isis
Mar 5, 2011 6:52 am
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...
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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: ...
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Jim West
drjewest
Mar 3, 2011 9:26 pm
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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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Mar 3, 2011 6:50 pm
From: Gonzalo Rubio <gxr18@...> http://ada.usal.es/videvdad/eos700/ingles.swf http://www.eos700.es SEVEN CENTURIES OF ORIENTAL STUDIES IN SALAMANCA CALL...
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George Athas
gkathas
Mar 3, 2011 3:22 pm
I think 'prefix' and 'suffix' are appropriate terms. When it comes to verbs, I distinguish 'subject prefixes' and 'subject suffixes' from 'object suffixes'....
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Mar 2, 2011 6:52 pm
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...
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Antonio Lombatti
antonio_lomb...
Mar 2, 2011 6:04 pm
... 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...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Mar 2, 2011 4:46 pm
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...
