S.N. Kramer would be so proud! -Stephanie Budin Reuters / Yahoo 7/31/08: "World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC" "The world's oldest recorded joke has...
... This "joke" or whatever it is, is now available in B. Alster, Proverbs of Ancient Sumer in Collection 1 no. 1.12. Unfortunately, although there is full...
... Rainey writes: "This reading was discussed by A. Lemaire in a lecture at the Institue of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, on 19 March 1997; the new ...
Stop me if you have heard this one... You must know it because I keep repeating it. From LBA Beth-Shemesh, a 'vintage' city, comes this mashal (humorous ...
The co-directors of the Kabri Archaeological Project (KAP) would like to announce that a pdf of the preliminary results from the 2008 excavation season at Tel...
An article for people interested in texts. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/world/middleeast/08hebrew.html Eliot Braun, Ph D Sr. Fellow WF Albright Institute...
Here's an interesting article that will be of interest to those who study pottery. I'm looking forward to the results of this study.This is the link: ...
Hi All, The Encyclopedea Miqrait entry for Baal-Hanan has a drawing of a stamp that says "LeUza ben Baal Hanan". Does anyone know where or when this was found...
New York University Programmer/Analyst (7421BR) New York University’s Division of the Libraries seeks a Programmer/Analyst to work on the "Papyrological...
Can anyone tell me how the works of Normandi Ellis on ancient Egypt are regarded by Egyptologists? Is she thought of as anything other than a new age crank?...
NYPL's copy of Kammenhuber is "missing," but I found a work of a very similar title by Mayrhofer from 1966, which gives the Indologist's perspective on the...
This is a link to an account of a coin hoard found at Ramat Rahel, just south of Jerusalem. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1008504.html Eliot Braun, Ph D ...
I need to put a paragraph about the orthography of the Indo-Iranian (or Indo-Aryan) vocabulary from the Mittani texts into a survey article, and there doesn't...
Readers may be interested in this blurb, which appears to be mostly factual and just a bit silly. The part about an entry way for non-Muslims is absurd. None...
Please announce: August 20 at 6:00 p.m., Open University in Jerusalem Professor Norman Golb (University of Chicago) will give a talk entitled "Who Wrote the...
From ane-2 list archives: Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:49:46 +0200... In last week's Explorator, D. Meadows tells about an important epigraphical discovery in...
Does anyone have a list of all the OI Publications (Chicago)? I tried Abzu, but it appears to be down. The OI Publications site only lists ones still...
This was just announced by the DBG: Proverbs Edited by J. de Waard Biblia Hebraica Quinta - BHQ 17 Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft Stuttgart, Forthcoming November...
NEW ALPHABETIC INSCRIPTION FROM ZINCIRLI On July 21, 2008, the Neubauer Expedition to Zincirli, directed by Prof. David Schloen of the University of Chicago...
Oriental Institute Domestic Travel Program presents Bactrian Gold at the Golden Gate A Weekend at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum to see the AFGHANISTAN ...
I wonder if anyone can help me? I'm looking for images of the impressions from two particular cylinder seals: photographs, line drawings, all useful.... Both...
Just published: Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem, Correspondence 1945-1982. ed. and introduction by G. Stroumsa (Brill 2008)--interesting exchanges between two...
Dear ANE participants, I am looking for Assyriologists willing to collaborate on a project to publish the corpus of Akkadian "Wisdom Literature". It is part...
Since the provenance of Acts of Peter and the 12 Apostles is the NE, I trust my question is not off topic. Apologies if it is. In the _Acts of Peter and the...
Dear Liest Members, I wonder if any one happen to know the e-mail of Ian Ransom who was conducting his PhD about the role of the goddess Nekhbet in the...
1) The "Gabriel" stone inscription--which may or may not be ancient--is anomalous in more than one respect. Politis in ADAJ (volume 42 not 43) does mention...
I am presently reading through the discussion of Berossus and Genesis in the book by Gmirkin which has been mentioned often here on ANE and came across a ...
