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…
This study is a focused analysis of Hurrian orthographic influences on the language of the Akkadian dialect of Nuzi, particularly in the expression of stop consonants. Texts examined are those known to belong to scribes of the first generation and scribes descending from Apil-Sin and belonging to the second generation. Read more…
This dissertation involves the edition, translation, and explanation of medical commentaries pertaining to the Diagnostic Series SA.GIG, along with selected commentaries on the therapeutic texts. It examines how canonical descriptions of medical signs may have been interpreted in actual diagnostic practice, as well as the dynamics of knowledge assumptions and Read more…
‘Cartography in the Ancient Near East’ is an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded PhD project which aims to provide a complete survey of mapping throughout Mesopotamian history, under the supervision of Dr Alasdair Livingstone at the University of Birmingham.