The Oriental Institute and The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Assyriology Search, 2008 present a lecture by KATRIEN DE GRAEF,...
Ryan Byrne's article on E. Mazar's seal is now up at: http://www.bib-arch.org/Mazar/bswbMazarByrne.asp In addition to the points I mentioned yesterday, he...
With regard to Ryan Byrne's remark that the seal was owned by a women, the following should be kept in mind: - Apart from "Shelomith", the Masoretic text knows...
By my count, if you take MT $LMYT, $LWMYT, and $LMWT as proper names whose bearers might own a seal inscribed $LMT, the males outnumber the females two to one....
Quite a loss for all of us. My heart goes out to his daughter, friends and family. R. Brian Roberts Amateur Researcher in Biblical Archaeology Jim West...
Dear colleagues, I will be very thankful if you can send this call to the list members. Thanks in advance, Ianir Milevski, PhD Research Archaeologist, IAA ...
Journal of Epigraphy and Rock Drawings (JERD) is an annual periodical published by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. It is devoted to the study of...
Dear Mr. Sapir and Listers, You may also add the seal of 'Amad, daughter of Yeqamyahu from page 58 of Drs. Deutsch and Heltzer's Forty New Ancient West Semitic...
... I agree that perhaps the arrowheads point to layers prior to Babylonian destruction, but that conclusion cannot be made without a review of the evidence of...
While this is not precisely germane to the list, there is some interesting information of a theoretical nature on artifacts without provenience, which list...
Just joining ANE-2 Group, I would like to share with you the following information. In June last year Dar As-Saraya Museum was officially inaugurated in Irbid,...
This is very germane to the list as it's not only artifacts from Thailand that are exported to the US and overvalued for tax purposes. There have been several...
There is also a nice museum in Kerak, in the beautifully restored castle, well worth a visit. Soon there will be a new museum in Safi. The building is complete...
With sadness I'm announcing to this list the passing of Moshe Kochavi, Professor Emeritus, of the Institute of Archaeology,Tel Aviv University, after a lengthy...
Dear Mr. Sapir and Listers, Hi!!! It is true that seals are harder to determine their authenticity or genuineness, because their usual medium is Stone. I was...
Listers who happen to be in Montreal in February or March might wish to swing by the lobby of McLennan Library at McGill University. There is a modest but...
As the media's treatment of archaeology is a somewhat regular topic on ANE-2, I wanted to post links to two reasonably good (in my view) pieces that I bumped...
Dear Mr. Sapir and Listers, Hi!!! I Thank You for your kind reply. I actually was saying that the layers with the arrowheads probably point to a Babylonian...
... I stand corrected, although seals published in 1946-1948 are probably much safer to trust than seals published in the 1970s. I do not know enough to judge...
Dear Mr. Sapir and Listers, Hi!!! I Thank You for your interesting reply. I Thank You for the link to the seal also. You are not really serious about ignoring...
Hello! I am a student of Assyriology and I have a question to one passage from Sargon II, Dur-sharru-ukin: Plattenrückseite, Line.7-8: sha eli (UGU) iri...
Ryan Byrne has added an important Postscript to his discussion of the seal; it's on the BAR Web site at: http://www.bib-arch.org/Mazar/bswbMazarIntro.asp ...
... Of course I am serious. Please explain to me what I could learn from an unprovenanced artifact whose authenticity is in doubt that I could not learn from...
Listers in the UK may find this to be of interest: ‘THE BOOK OF THE TWELVE: TRANSLATION, INTERPRETATION AND CURRENT RESEARCH’ - Jennifer Dines, Lecturer ...
Gorgias Press Acquires Ancient Egyptology Titles Gorgias Press has acquired limited quantities of the following Egyptology titles from the Brooklyn Museum....
Hi all, I'd like some bibliographic tips on the latest and greatest regarding neo-Assyrian chronology, particularly discussion on the limmu-lists and absolute...
Dear Mr. Sapir and Listers, Hi!!! I Thank You for taking the time to write your reply. I respect your position, and I understand it. You want to be very...
Dear Mike, Thank you for your concern to discuss the authenticated Hezekiah bullae. I am glad you did. When they are shown to be genuine, then we should be...
Peter, Just for the record (following your last post), a rather well-based rumour (and nevertheless a rumour) has it that a well-known person involved in the...
