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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.