Does anyone know of any published reviews of Zvi Uri Ma'oz, 2006 book Dan is Baniyas: Teldan is Abel-Beth-Ma'acha? EBSCO and so forth aren't turning up...
I am translating an article from Italian, and it refers to a "tempio poliadico." The only "definition" found anywhere is 'polyadic'. The only use of this word...
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Steve Farmer
yukifarmer
Feb 4, 2012 5:42 pm
'Poliadico' is cognate with 'poliade,' and 'tempio poliadico' or 'tempio poliade' refer to the temple of a god protecting a city. See e.g. this web discussion,...
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jnardellis36@...
jnardellis36
Feb 4, 2012 5:42 pm
If it occurs within a disquisition related to Greek history or culture, I would guess that "poliadico" corresponds to our French "poliade", viz. what belongs...
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Giuseppe Del Monte
lugaltur
Feb 4, 2012 7:11 pm
From the NED vol. VII O, P, Oxford 1909 p.1069: Poliad (pp'liad). nonce-wd. [f. Gr. Polias city + j -AD i b, after OREAD, etc.] A city nymph. 1818 SHELLEY Let....
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Feb 5, 2012 6:34 pm
Interesting. Did this come from the OED website? Note the scanning error "Life Shelby" that obviously should be "Life Shelley," followed by a quite garbled...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Feb 5, 2012 6:34 pm
Thank you for three quick responses -- the (lack of) context is as follows (I didn't want to admit on ANE List that it's Etruscan rather than Near Eastern): Â ...
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George Athas
gkathas
Feb 5, 2012 6:35 pm
Isn't it the concept of a god attached to a particular city, such as 'Yahweh of Samaria' and 'Yahweh of Jerusalem'? GEORGE ATHAS Director of Postgraduate...
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Giuseppe Del Monte
lugaltur
Feb 5, 2012 7:19 pm
At 21.13 04/02/2012, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>Interesting. Did this come from the OED website? Note the scanning error ... I have downloaded the NED from the...
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Juan Manuel Tebes
jmtebes
Feb 6, 2012 3:44 pm
All past issues of Antiguo Oriente will be given online open access: Digital Library Website: http://www.bibliotecadigital.uca.edu.ar/. Search in "Revistas";...
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Jim West
drjewest
Feb 6, 2012 7:04 pm
http://chattanoogan.com/2012/2/3/218664/Archaeological-Series-Continues-At.aspx The Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum Lecture Series continues on Wednesday,...
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Jim West
drjewest
Feb 6, 2012 8:28 pm
take note if you're planning on excavating this season- http://www.asor.org/fellowships/excavation.html -- +++++++ Jim West, ThD Petros, TN...
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Ianir Milevski
ianirm
Feb 7, 2012 7:26 am
Dear colleagues, we are glad to inform you on recent publication of the final report on the 1980's-1990's excavations of the PPNB at YIftahel, Lower Galilee. ...
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pppmerlo
Feb 7, 2012 1:13 pm
Dear Peter, the Italian adjective "poliade" is better than "poliadico" in this context. Anyway, this is the Treccani's definition of "poliade": polìade (1)...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Feb 7, 2012 2:38 pm
On the occasion of the 12th International Conference for Nubian Studies, The British Museum, 1 - 6 August 2010, I took the opportunity to gather links to open...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Feb 7, 2012 4:50 pm
Thank you ... but as you have seen from the quotation, what my author wrote was "poliadico," and it refers not to Athena, but to the temple of the Ara della...
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Steve Farmer
yukifarmer
Feb 7, 2012 6:20 pm
... As already noted by several others on the list, the words 'poliadico' and 'poliade' are cognate and are often used equivalently -- in reference to gods,...
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fdscalf
Feb 7, 2012 8:18 pm
Symposium: "Picturing the Past" Saturday, March 10, 2012 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago 1155 E. 58th Street, Chicago, IL...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Feb 7, 2012 8:32 pm
I am not questioning the Italian meaning. I am looking for a way to translate "tempio poliadico" into English, and "polyadic"; is entirely out of the question,...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Feb 7, 2012 9:49 pm
While researching some aspects of animal husbandry in the ANE, I came across a 1994 reference to the Sumerian term amar.KUD which stated that it meant a...
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Giuseppe Del Monte
lugaltur
Feb 8, 2012 6:50 pm
The qualification is brought out by the sign KUD. If interpreted as Sumerian ku(d) "to cut", then we have an amar-kud, a castrated young bovide, a ma$2-kud,...
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Max Dashu
maxdashu
Feb 9, 2012 3:25 pm
I'd say slavery, chatteldom, with or without formalized eunuch roles, but those would be something to consider in that timeframe. I don't know if evidence...
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richfaussette
Feb 9, 2012 3:25 pm
... They are all 'domesticated' animals. The ox and the equid certainly - and men also when you consider the Persian 'domestication' of the Ionians recorded in...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Feb 9, 2012 3:51 pm
My thanks to those who replied. I guess I should have phrased my question more carefully. I wanted to know if Maekawa's reading of "amar" (which always means...
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Diana Gainer
torakana54
Feb 9, 2012 5:12 pm
Halloran (2006, "Sumerian Lexicon") gives amar-kud (not capitalized) the meaning "separated, weaned young animal" from "calf" + "to cut away from."Â The...
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fdscalf
Feb 10, 2012 3:12 pm
For abstracts, poster/program, and further details: http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/symposia/2012.html The 8th Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Feb 13, 2012 9:04 pm
Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned: Reminder - if you planned to take our survey on archaeological conservation needs, but have not yet done so, the survey...
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Juan Manuel Tebes
jmtebes
Feb 14, 2012 6:43 pm
Orient & Méditerranée, Laboratoire Mondes Sémitiques, UMR 8167, CNRS, Paris Call for Papers Archaeological and Historical Round-table Paris, France, May...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
Feb 14, 2012 8:15 pm
With the usual apologies for cross posting... Earlier today AWOL's list of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies reached eleven hundred titles. It has...
