2015. június 1., hétfő

Alalah-konferencia

15th Anniversary of Alalakh Excavations
New Hatay Archaeology Museum, June 10-12, 2015
Hatay Arkeoloji Müzesi, Haziran 10-12, 2015


Workshop Day I. Wednesday, June 10, 2015 

9:45-10:00 Aslıhan Yener: Alalakh in the Past, Atchana in the Present: Situating Site and City / Geçmişte Alalah, Bugün Aççana: Höyük ve Şehri Konumlandırmak

10:00-10:20 Murat Akar: The Physical Dimensions of Ancient Alalakh: Stratigraphy and Architecture / Antik Alalah’ın Fiziksel Boyutları: Stratigrafi ve Mimari

10:20-10:40 Mara Horowitz: Chronology, Sequence, and Society: Approaches to the Temporal Dimensions of Alalakh / Kronoloji, Sıralama ve Toplum: Alalah’ın Geçici Boyutlarına Dair Yaklaşımlar


Session 1: Textual Records/ Yazılı Kaynaklar

11:00-11:20 Jacob Lauinger: The Jurisdiction of Legal Transactions at Middle Bronze Age Alalah / Orta Tunç Çağında Alalah’ta Yasal Kayıtların Yetki Sınırı

11:20-11:40 Belkis Dinҫol, Hasan Peker: The Corpus of Alalakh Seals: New Interpretations in the Light of Old and New Finds / Alalah Mühür Külliyatı: Eski ve Yeni Bulgular Işığında Yeni Yorumlar

11:40-12:00 Hasan Peker: New Interpretations in the Light of the Tuthaliya- Ašnuhepa sealing from    Alalakh / Alalah Tuthaliya- Ašnuhepa Mühür Baskısının Işığında Yeni Yorumlar

12:00-12:20 Eva von Dassow: Language and Fluid Frontiers in the Age of Idrimi / İdrimi Dönemi’nde Dil ve Değişken Sınırlar

12:20-12:40 Alfonso Archi: Linguistic and Political Borders in the Period of Ebla / Ebla Dönemi’nde Dil Bilimi ve Politik Sınırlar
  

Session 2: Comparative Material Culture / Karşılaştırmalı Eserler Kültürü

13:40-14:00 David Hawkins: The Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions of the Amuq / Amik’in Hieroglif Luvice Yazıtları

14:00-14:20 Constance von Ruden: Reconsidering the Alalakh Paintings within their Levantine Context / Alalah Fresklerini Doğu Akdeniz Bağlamında Yeniden Ele Almak

14:20-14:40 Güzel Öztürk: Relations between Alalakh and Kültepe in the Light of Assyrian Trading Colony Period Seals / Asur Ticaret Kolonileri Çağına Ait Mühürler Işığında Alalah-Kültepe İlişkileri

14:40-15:00 Aslıhan Yener: Symbolic Messaging and Weapons: Incised Signs on Bronze / Sembolik Mesajlar ve Silahlar: Tunç Üzerine Kazınmış İşaretler


Session 3: Ceramic Studies / Seramik Çalışmaları 

15:20-15:40 Mara Horowitz: New Cultural Features in the Late Bronze I Ceramics of Alalakh: The Case of the Plate / Alalah Geç Tunç Çağı I Seramiklerinde Yeni Özellikler: Tabak Konusu

15:40-16:00 Müge Bulu: Interregional Trends in the Middle Bronze Age: The Case of Syro-Cilician Ware     in the Context of Recent Excavations at Tell Atchana/Ancient Alalakh / Orta Tunç Çağı’nda Bölgeler Arası Eğilimler: Aççana Höyük, antik Alalah’ta Yeni Arkeolojik Kazılar Bağlamında Suriye-Kilikya Malları Konusu

16:00-16:20 Robert B. Koehl: Alalakh and the Aegean: Five Centuries of Shifting but Enduring Contacts / Alalah ve Ege: Beş Yüzyıllık Değişken ama Kalıcı Temaslar

16:20-16:40 Marina Pucci: Iron Age Local Pottery at Alalakh: Continuity in Eating and Cooking Traditions / Alalah’ta Demir Çağı Yerel Çanak Çömleği: Yeme ve Pişirme Geleneklerindeki Süreklilik

16:40-17:00 Mariacarmela Montesanto: Iron Age Aegeanizing Pottery at Alalakh: Changes and Continuity in Local Production/ Alalah’ta Demir Çağı Egeleşen Çanak Çömleği: Yerel Üretimde Değişim ve Süreklilik


Workshop Day II. Thursday June 11, 2015

Session 1: Alalakh and its Neighbors I: Anatolia/ Alalah ve Komşuları I: Anadolu 

9:00-9:20 Mirko Novák: Sirkeli and Alalakh: A New Regional Chronology for Cilicia and its Correlation to Alalakh and the Amuq Sequence/ Sirkeli ve Alalah: Kilikya için Bölgesel Yeni Bir Kronoloji ve Alalah ve Amik ile Bağlantıları

9:20-9:40 Atilla Engin: Oylum Höyük and Alalakh: Cultural Relations in the Second Millennium BC / Oylum Höyük ve Alalah: İkinci Binyılda Kültürel İlişkiler

9:40-10:00 Fikri Kulakoğlu: Looking beyond the Taurus: Alalakh in the Amuq seen from Kanesh / Torosların Ötesine Bakmak: Kaneş’ten Amik’teki Alalah’ı Görmek

10:00-10:20 Eric Jean: The 'Hilani': a Late Bronze Age Amuq-Cilician Architectural Tradition? / ‘Hilani’: Geç Tunç Çağı Amik-Kilikya’da Bir Mimari Gelenek?
  

Session 2: Alalakh and its Neighbors II: SE Anatolia and Syria/ Alalah ve Komşuları II: Güneydoğu Anadolu ve Suriye 

11:00-11:20 Valerie Matoian: Ugarit and Alalakh in the Late Bronze Age / Geç Tunç Çağı’nda Ugarit ve Alalah

11:20-11:40 Stefania Mazzoni: Tell Afis and its Plain: A Route to the Amuq and the Mediterranean / Tell Afis ve   Civarı: Amik ve Akdeniz’e Bir Yol

11:40-12:00 Kimiyoshi Matsumura: A Glass Production Center in Central Anatolia? Büklükale in Relation to Alalakh and Mesopotamia / Orta Anadolu’da bir Cam Üretim Merkezi? Büklükale’nin Alalah ve Mezopotamya İlişkileri

12:00-12:20 Pascal Butterlin: A World of Palaces: The View from Mari. Latest Results from the 2005-2010 Excavations in the Great Palace at Mari / Saraylar Dünyası: Mari’den Görünüm. 2005-2010 Mari Büyük Saray Kazıları Sonuçları

12:20-12:40 Nicolo Marchetti: Karkemish and Alalakh in the 2nd millennium BC: An Archaeological             Overview / İkinci Binyıl’da Karkamış ve Alalah: Arkeolojik Bir Genel Bakış


Session 3: Scientific Investigations at Alalakh/ Alalah’ta Bilimsel İncelemeler

13:40-14:00 Magda Pieniazek: Beads on the Crossroads: Preliminary Remarks on the Jewelry from Alalakh / Kavşaklardaki Boncuklar: Alalah Kuyumları Üzerine Ön İzlenimler

14:00-14:20 Gonca Dardeniz: “When you set up the foundation of a kiln to make glass…”: Evidence of Glass Production at Alalakh / “Cam Yapmak İçin Bir Fırın Kurduğunuzda…”: Alalah’ta Cam Üretimine Dair Kanıtlar

14:20-14:40 Michael Johnson: Iron of the Furnace: Contextualizing Evidence of Iron Manufacture at Alalakh / Fırının Demiri: Alalah Demir Üretimini Anlamlandıran Bulgular

14:40-15:00 Emre Kuruçayırlı: Insights into Copper Metallurgy at Alalakh: Evidence from Compositional and Isotope Analysis / Alalah Bakır Metalurjisini Anlamak: Bileşim ve İzotop Analizlerinden Kanıtlar


Session 4: Interdisciplinary studies at Alalakh/ Alalah’ta Disiplinler Arası Çalışmalar 

15:20-15:40 Rula Shafiq: Come and Hear My Story--The ‘Well Lady’ of Alalakh / Gel ve Hikayemi Dinle: Alalah’ta ‘Kuyunun Hanımı’

15:40-16:00 Gökçe Bike Yazıcıoğlu: Remarks on Cultural Pluralism at Kültepe/Kanesh and Tell Atchana/Alalakh Based on Mortuary Customs and Strontium Isotope Analysis of Kültepe Graves / Kültepe Mezarlarında Ölü Gömme Gelenekleri ve Stronsiyum İzotop Analizlerine Dayanarak Kültepe/Kaneş ve Aççana Höyük/Alalah Arasındaki Kültürel Çoğulculuk Üzerine Değerlendirmeler

16:00-16:20 Bülent Arıkan: The Mid- and Late Holocene Climate Changes in the Amuq Plain: The Application of the Macrophysical Climate Model / Amik Ovası’nda Orta ve Geç Holosen İklim Değişiklikleri: Makrofiziksel İklim Modelinin Uygulanması

16:20-16:40 Sıla Votruba, Cansu Yıldırım: Alalakh's Overseas Networks in the Light of Archaeometric Analysis of its Mycenaean Pottery / Miken Seramiklerinin Arkeometrik Analizi Işığında Alalah’ın Denizaşırı Bağlantıları

16:40-17:00 Ekin Kozal, Sinem Hacıosmanoğlu, Pınar Gutsuz, Mustafa Kibaroğlu, Gürsel Sunal: Archaeological and Archaeometric Analysis of Cypriot Pottery from Alalakh / Alalah Kıbrıs Seramiklerinin Arkeolojik ve Arkeometrik Analizi

17:00-17:20 Morena Stefanova: The Case of Egyptian imagery at Alalakh: Transmission, Agency and Interconnections / Alalah’ta Mısır Betimlemeleri Konusu: Aktarım, Aracılar ve  Karşılıklı Bağlantılar

                          
Workshop Day III. Friday June 12, 2015

Session 1: Interdisciplinary studies at Alalakh and its Neighbors/ Alalah ve Komşularında Disiplinler Arası Çalışmalar

9:00-9:20 Federico Manuelli: The Dawn and Demise of Imperial Impact – Models of Interaction between Late Bronze Age Powers and Their Peripheral Territories: Tell Atchana and Arslantepe: A Comparative Analysis / İmparatorluk Etkisinin Doğuşu ve Batışı-Geç Tunç Çağı Güçleri ve Çevresel Hakimiyet Bölgeleri: Aççana Höyük ve Arslantepe: Bir Karşılaştırmalı Analiz

9:20-9:40 Tim Harrison: Tell Atchana and Tell Tayinat in Space and Time / Uzayda ve Zamanda Aççana        Höyük ve Tayinat Höyük

9:40-10:00 Tara Ingman: GIS Modeling and Mortuary Practices at Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh / Aççana Höyük, Antik Alalah’ta CBS Modellemesi ve Ölü Gömme Uygulamaları

10:00-10:20 Alan Greaves, Megan Hammond: Archaeomagnetism and Archaeology / Arkeomanyetizma ve Arkeoloji

10:20-10:40 Elizabeth Healey: Obsidian Use in the Bronze Age: Evidence from Alalakh and Contemporary Sites / Tunç Çağı Obsidyen Kullanımı: Alalah ve Çağdaşı Yerleşkeler

11:00-11:20 John Healey: Keldağ, the Sacred Mountain of Ugarit and Alalakh / Ugarit ve Alalah’ın Kutsal Dağı, Keldağ

2015. május 28., csütörtök

JCS 67 (2015)

Frances Pinnock: The King’s Standard from Ebla Palace G.

Laurent Colonna d’Istria, Dominique Beyer: Erra-kibrī, ŠABRA d’Iddin-ilum et ses collègues.

Ilan Peled: A New Manuscript of the Lament for Eridu.

Jeremiah Peterson: An Adab Composition of Nergal/Meslamtaea at Lagaš and Ĝirsu for Šulgi.

Jaan Puhvel: Discharge of Duty: Hittite /šahhan luzzi/

Benjamin W. Fortson IV: An Illicit Hittite–Latin Affair.

Yigal Bloch, Wayne Horowitz: Urahubullu XXII: The Standard Recension.

John Marriott, Karen Radner: Sustaining the Assyrian Army among Friends and Enemies in 714 BCE

Jamie Novotny: New Proposed Chronological Sequence and Dates of Composition of Esarhaddon’s Babylon Inscriptions.

Samuel Mirelman: Birds, Balaĝs, and Snakes (K.4206+).

J. M. Steele: A Late Babylonian Compendium of Calendrical and Stellar Astrology.

John Z. Wee: Discovery of the Zodiac Man in Cuneiform.

2015. május 22., péntek

Orientalia 83/2 (2014)

A tartalomból:

Karkemish 2011-2013
A. Dinçol et al.: A stele by Suhi I from Karkemish

G. Bitelli - F. Girardi - V. A. Girelli: Digital enhancement of the 3D scan of Suhi I’s stele from Karkemish

A. Dinçol - B. Dinçol - H. Peker: An Anatolian Hieroglyphic Cylinder Seal from the Hilani at Karkemish

G. Marchesi: Epigraphic Materials of Karkemish from the Middle Bronze Age

N. Marchetti - H. Peker: A Stele from Gürçay near Karkemish

H. Peker: A Funerary Stele from Yunus (Karkemish)

S. Pizzimenti: Three Glyptic Documents from Karkemish

M. Zecchi: A Note on Two Egyptian Seal Impressions from Karkemish

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A. Roccati: Dating Pthahhotep’s Maxims (Note Letterarie VI)

J. Bauer: Der Göttername d(nin–)/asˇbar/

2015. május 21., csütörtök

Karen Radner-interjú

Az érdeklődők ezen a linken meghallgathatnak egy majd' háromnegyedórás beszélgetést a Deutschlandradioban Karen Radnerrel, az egyik legjobb ókori keletessel.

2015. május 20., szerda

Vincent Rondot előadása

A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Filozófiai és Történettudományok Osztálya

tisztelettel meghívja Önt

Vincent Rondot
(a Louvre Egyiptomi Gyűjteményének igazgatója)

Pharaonic Gods in Hellenic Disguise. Roman Egypt's "Pagan Icons" in Paris, Cairo, Oxford and Other Museums

címmel tartandó előadására

Az eőadás ideje: 2015. június 12. (péntek) 14.00 óra

Az előadás helye: MTA Székház, Kisterem (1051 Budapest, Széchenyi István tér 9. II. emelet)

2015. május 19., kedd

Tel Aviv 42/1 (2015)

A tartalomból:

In the Valley of the King: Jerusalem's Rural Hinterland in the 8th-4th Centuries BCE (Yuval Gadot)

A Reanalysis of the Black Wheel-Made Ware of the Intermediate Bronze Age (Shlomit Bechar)

The Origins of Late Philistine Decorated Ware: A Note (Aren M. Maeir, Itzhaq Shai)

A New Fragment of Proto-Aeolic Capital from Jerusalem (Doron Ben-Ami, Yana Tchekhanovets)

Abraham's Victory over the Kings of the Four Quadrants in Light of Darius I's Bisitun Inscription (Nadav Na'aman)

2015. május 18., hétfő

Az új Ókor

Lehet, hogy nem fantasztikusan friss hír, de megjelent az új Ókor (a 2014/4-es füzet) és két tanulmány is található benne, mely blogunk profiljába illeszkedik:

Csabai Zoltán: Az ezüst az újbabilóni és kora achaimenida korban

Kőszeghy Miklós: Áház titulatúrája

2015. május 13., szerda

Ancient World Digital Library

Nagyon-nagyon-nagyon hasznos oldal, sok-sok letölthető / online olvasható könyvvel. Ezen a linken lehet böngészni.

2015. május 9., szombat

Gyorshír: NABU 2015/1

Mint Kedves Olvasóink bizonyára észrevették, kissé elmaradoztak mostanság a bejegyzések, melynek az az oka, hogy meglehetősen elfoglalt vagyok és ez még így is marad a jövő héten, de utána igyekszem visszaállítani a bejegyzések megszokott sűrűségét.

Addig is olvasgassák az új N.A.B.U.-t (két magyar szerzővel is!), errefele szabadon letölthető. 

2015. április 22., szerda

Postdoc pozíció: River ports of Egypt and the Near East

A River ports of Egypt and the Near East kutatócsoport meghirdetett egy postdoc-pozíciót. Részletes kiírás itt, a határidő igen szoros: ápr. 26-ig kell pályázni rá.

2015. április 21., kedd

EES-ösztöndíjak

Érdemes az Egypt Exploration Society honlapját böngészgetni, mert többféle, fiatal kutatóknak szóló ösztöndíjat írtak ki / fognak kiírni, viszonylag szoros határidővel. (Itt egy már meghirdetett pozíció; de elméletileg terveznek még utazási támogatásra szóló ösztöndíjat is kiírni, ill. keresni fognak a Lucy Gura archívumba önkénteseket.)

2015. április 20., hétfő

Cikkek innen-onnan

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 26 (2015)
  • A petroglyph of a smiting pharaoh in the Negev (Davida Eisenberg-Degen)
  • Nouveaux documents sabéens provenant de Kamna du VIIIe–VIIe siècle avant J.-C. (Mounir Arbach, Irene Rossi)
  • Buried far from home: Sasanian graves at Jebel al-Emeilah (Sharjah, UAE) (Adelina Kutterer, Sabah A. Jasim, Eisa Yousif)


JAOS 134/4 (2014)
  • John J. Lowe: Transitive Nominals in Old Avestan
  • Mitka Golub: The Distribution of Personal Names in the Land of Israel and Transjordan during the Iron II Period


Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 3/1 (2015)
  • The Palace versus the Home: Social Status and Zooarchaeology at Tušḫan (Ziyaret Tepe), a Neo-Assyrian Administrative Provincial Capital in Southeastern Turkey (Tina L. Greenfield)

2015. április 17., péntek

Chronique d'Égypte LXXXIX (2014) - fasc. 178

A tartalomból:

 
R. Krauss, Aus der Arbeit an einem Catalogue-Général-Band der Amarna-Objekte

S. H. Hudson, Ashmolean HO 774 and Ashmolean HO 804: New Light on Accounting Texts from Deir el-Medina

V. A. Bolshakov, The King’s Daughter Neferura: Eventual Heiress of Hatshepsut?

N. Litinas, Reading Aristophanes Amid the Sands of Egypt

M. Bagnoud, J. Chaney, K. Novoa, V. Pochon, P. Schubert, M. Tomcik & A. Tschanz, Serment royal relatif à un emprunt de blé


W. Clarysse, M. Maitland & K.A. Worp, Mummy Labels from Graeco- Roman Egypt in National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

A. Papathomas & A. Koroli, Subjectivité et stylistique 
dans l’épistolographie privée de l’Antiquité tardive: l’exemple de P.Oxy. XVI 1869

2015. április 16., csütörtök

Radiocarbon 57/2 (2015)

Tematikus szám, izgalmasnak ígérkező dolgozatokkal, melyek szabadon letölthetőek.

THE IRON AGE IN ISRAEL: THE EXACT AND LIFE SCIENCES PERSPECTIVE

Editors: Israel Finkelstein, Steve Weiner and Elisabetta Boaretto
  
Preface: The Iron Age in Israel – The Exact and Life Sciences Perspectives
Israel Finkelstein, Steve Weiner and Elisabetta Boaretto

Radiocarbon and the Archaeological Record: An Integrative Approach for Building an Absolute Chronology for the Late Bronze and Iron Ages in Israel
Elisabetta Boaretto

Vegetation and Climate Changes during the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Southern Levant Based on Palynological Records
Dafna Langgut, Israel Finkelstein, Thomas Litt, Frank Herald Neumann and Mordechai Stein

Dead Sea Levels during the Bronze and Iron Ages
Elisa Joy Kagan, Dafna Langgut, Elisabetta Boaretto, Frank Herald Neumann and Mordechai Stein

Settlement Oscillations in the Negev Highlands Revisited: The Impact of Micro-Archaeology Methods
Ruth Shahack-Gross and Israel Finkelstein

On the Beginnings of South Asian Spice Trade with the Mediterranean Region: A Review
Ayelet Gilboa and Dvory Namdar

The Transition from Bronze to Iron in Canaan: Chronology, Technology and Context
Naama Yahalom-Mack and Adi Eliyahu-Behar

Iron Age Pigs: New Evidence on their Origin and Role in Forming Identity Boundaries
Lidar Sapir-Hen, Meirav Meiri and Israel Finkelstein

Computerized Paleographic Investigation of Hebrew Iron Age Ostraca
Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Arie Shaus, Barak Sober, Israel Finkelstein, David Levin, Murray Moinester, Eli Piasetzky and Eli Turkel

2015. április 14., kedd

Akkadica 135 (2014)

A tartalomból (magyar szerzővel!):

C. Castel et al.: Rapport préliminaire sur les activités de la Mission archéologique franco-syrienne d'Al-Rawda, travaux 2007-2010 (Part 1)
Z. Niederreiter: Fourteen Ur III texts belonging to the Bibliothèque de l' Arsenal and the Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, 73-108

C. Castel et al.: Rapport préliminaire sur les activités de la Mission archéologique franco-syrienne d'Al-Rawda, travaux 2007-2010 (Part 2)

C. Thissen: Studies in Neo-Babylonian Onomastics: the Use of the Sign DU

Alev Erarslan: An Essay on a Local Version of the Historical Hilanis. "Hilani" Buildings in Kahta-Adiyaman, Turkey

2015. április 13., hétfő

Oriental Institute Research Grant

A chicago-i Oriental Institute ösztöndíjat hirdet meg minden, legalább BA-val rendelkező ókori keletes / egyiptológus diáknak, doktorandusznak, kutatónak.
A beadási határidő máj. 4., délután 5 óra (US Central Daylight time). Részletes leírás ezen a linken.

2015. április 12., vasárnap

Ägyptische Magie und ihre Umwelt

A. Jördens (szerk.): Ägyptische Magie und ihre Umwelt, Philippika - Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen vol. 80, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015

A tartalomból: 

J. F. Quack, Dämonen und andere höhere Wesen in der Magie als Feinde und Helfer
 

C. Theis, Defensive Magie im Alten Ägypten – Der Schutz der Grabstätte

I. Maaßen (I. Bárány):Schlangen- und Skorpionbeschwörung über die Jahrtausende

F. Naether, Griechisch-Ägyptische Magie nach den Papyri Graecae et Demoticae Magica


S. Nagelmit einem Beitrag von F. Wespi, Ägypter, Griechen und Römer im Liebesbann – 
Antiker ‚Liebeszauber’ im Wandel der Zeiten

2015. április 10., péntek

Konferenciaajánló

Elérhető a 4th International Conference on Abusir and Saqqara:  "Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2015" (2015. jún. 22-26) előzetes programja. 
Szintúgy elérhető a CRE XVI programja (2015. ápr. 15-18, Oxford), három magyar előadóval. 

2015. április 9., csütörtök

Könyvajánló (egyiptológia)

M. Barta et al: The Tomb of the Sun Priest Neferinpu, Czech Institue of Egyptology, Prague 2015

M. Verner: Sons of the Sun. Rise and Decline of the Fifth Dynasty. Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Prague 2014 

H. Bassir: Image and Voice in Saite Egypt: Self-Presentations of Neshor Named Psamtikmenkhib and Payeftjauemawyneith (Wilkinson Egyptology Series Volume 2). University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition, 2014.

2015. április 8., szerda

Ásatós hírek

Az elmúlt másfél hónapban számos érdekes felfedezés történt Egyiptomban.
Így például: két óbirodalmi sírt találtak Szakkarában, Tel-Avivban 17 gödröt találtak, bennük sörkészítéshez használt, egyiptomi stílusban készült kerámiaedények töredékeivel, és melyek Kr. e. 3000-re datálnak; Luxorban, a TT 110-es udvarában két sírt is találtak, Tell Hebuában pedig egy II. Thotmesz korabeli építményt találtak.

2015. április 7., kedd

Erdős Gábor doktori védése

Erdős Gábor nyilvános doktori védése április 8-án, szerdán lesz 14 órakor a Kari Tanácsteremben. 

A téma: El Kurru és a 25. dinasztia egyiptomi valamint nemzetközi története.

Hettita szerződések

Minap jelent meg a hettita nemzetközi szerződések monografikus feldolgozása, a téma legjobb szakértőjének a tollából:

Elena Devecchi
Trattati internazionali ittiti
Testi del Vicino Oriente antico 4.4
Paideia Editrice, Brescia 2015
320 pages 
ISBN 978.88394.0874.7 
36.00 €

The book provides the widest collection of Hittite treaties in translation currently available in a single volume as well as a thorough discussion about the definition of the corpus and the typological classification of these documents. It thereby offers an updated and complete overview on the largest corpus of international treaties of the Ancient Near East. 

2015. április 6., hétfő

CDLN-cikkek

Újabb CDLN-cikkek (magyar szerzővel!):

Armando Bramanti, A Jemdet Nasr Fragment in the Collections of the. CDLN 2015:004.

Troels Pank Arbøll, A curious Ur III Tablet at the University of Copenhagen: Notes on the History of Pinches’ Collection and an Official named Abbagina. CDLN 2015:005

Klaus Wagensonner, A legal text at the Russell Library, Maynooth University. CDLN 2015:006.

Strahil V. Panayotov, The tablet of the Middle Assyrian ‘coronation’ ritual: the placement of VAT 10113 and the displacement of VAT 9978. CDLN 2015:007.

Gábor Zólyomi, Ashm 1924-478: a new ms. of the “The temple hymns” (ETCSL 4.80.1). CDLN 2015:008.

2015. április 2., csütörtök

Iranica Antiqua 50 (2015)

A tartalomból:

Danti, M. G. - Cifarelli, M.: Iron II Warrior Burials at Hasanlu Tepe, Iran

Medvedskaya, I. N.: A Shield-Bearer from Sialk. Rectangular Shields in the Ancient Near East

Arimatsu, Y.: Homogénéisation de la céramique fine de la deuxième moitié de l'âge du Fer au nord de l'Iran dans le cadre de l'horizon à céramique de type 'Orange Ware'

Álvarez-Mon, J.: A Highland Elamite Archer from Kūl-e Farah IV, CI:4

Gondet, S.: Stratégies d'exploitation de la pierre à Persepolis. Nouvelles données archéologiques

Rung, E.: Some notes on 'Karanos' in the Achaemenid Empire

Farjamirad, M.: Do Gur-e Dopa. The Sasanian Twin Pillar Ossuaries at Shoush Village, Kohgiloyeh va Boyer Ahmad (Iran)

Cereti, C. - Gondet, S.: The Funerary Landscape between Naqš-e Rostam and Estahr (Persepolis Region). Discovery of a New Group of Late Sasanian Inscribed Rock-Cut Niches

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Porject Curator: Ur Cuneiform Digitisation  

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum as Project Curator: Ur Cuneiform Digitisation. The successful candidate will work in a project team and will assist with the British Museum's contribution to the joint University of Pennsylvania/British Museum Ur of the Chaldees: a virtual vision of Woolley's excavations project, which is lead funded by the Leon Levy Foundation. The project is producing an innovative digital presentation of the results of Woolley's excavations at Ur, which captured the imagination of the international public and continue to provide a rich resource for scholarship. The project integrates and interconnects the finds and records from Ur, opening new avenues of research.

Key areas of responsibility:
- To produce high-quality images of all inscribed objects according to the Project's system and standards.
- To identify, check and list all inscribed objects from Ur.
- To take the lead on the collecting and incorporating of all publications of Ur inscriptions.
- To assist the Cuneiform Curator in providing transliterations or translations of Ur inscriptions where these are not available.
- To assist the Cuneiform Curator in producing syntheses or other materials for the website that will help to bring Ur and its finds alive.
- To conduct original research leading to the presentation of scholarly papers at conferences and seminars.

Person Specification:
The successful candidate will have a postgraduate degree in Assyriology with fluency in Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform of all types. You will have experience of digital photography and a familiarity with effective data management. You will have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work as part of an effective team including; excellent communication and information sharing skills. 

Working Hours: Full time 
Contract Terms: Fixed term until 31 July 2016  
Closing Date: 12 noon; Monday, 20 April 2015 

For further information or to apply for this role, please go to www.britishmuseum.org/jobs