Hematite, shadanu, was used for cutting small objects like beads, seals, weights. In metallurgy it was used as a flux in smelting copper and as a rich iron ore. As hematite is not indigenous in Mesopotamia, it had to be imported, like many basic materials. Combining archaeological, philological, metallurgical and geo-archaeological Read more…
The Disseration aims at discussing all relevant sources for the presence of greek persons in Mesopotamia and Iran and determining the function of these people and changes in the role of greeks in the near east according to cuneiform as well as greek and latin sources.
The thesis compares various aspects of these collections and attempts to place the differences between them in their cultural/societal context. The results question the assumption of many that the ancient Near East shared a common culture. New insights on the comparative method in general are made as well as a Read more…
Date of completion: April 25, 2007
I. Introduction. II. Anatolia: 1 Sources philological (texts) and archaeological (cemeteries); 2 Terminology: man (body, soul, spirit), death, to die; 3 Netherworld: a. man after death (body, inhumation, cremation), souls, spirits; b. the way to the Netherworld, the rite of passage (Totenrituale), the mythological passages, the natural passages; c. Read more…
In spite of the big number of letter-orders known nowadays (nearly 700), no comprehensive study of this kind of document has been done since the appearance of Sollberger’s TCS 1. The aim of this thesis is to gather all the edited material, to present a study about formal characteristics and Read more…
In this research the ideas of the Mesopotamian people with respect to the origin and development of the cosmos, of the gods and of mankind will be studied on the basis of relevant Sumerian myths and other texts and with the aid of the god lists. The texts to be Read more…
Cette thèse a pour but de mener une étude sur les habitudes alimentaires des Anciens, notamment sur la façon dont ils se procuraient les ressources nécessaires à leur alimentation ; leurs techniques de stockage et de conservation ; les pratiques culinaires en vigueur à cette époque. Il s’agira également de Read more…
Studies of Assyrian history and royal ideology generally focus on the great kings of the Neo-Assyrian period. This thesis aims to elucidate the political history and ideological principles of a lesser Assyrian monarch, Adad-nirari III. The first part of the research establishes a chronology of the reign and a political Read more…