Il testo analizza le forme di celebrazioni delle regalità assira attraverso i cerimoniali di corte e le battute di caccia che coinvolgono il sovrano assiro e i membri più ristretti dell'aristocrazia assira tra il IX e il VII secolo a.C. nelle capitali di Nimrud, Dur Sharrukin e Ninive in Iraq settentrionale.
The volume collects studies on architecture, art and material culture from the Ancient Near East, dedicated to Frances Pinnock
The theme of violence is largely represented in the visual media of ancient Mesopotamia and Syria, from ancient times (fourth millennium BCE) up to the periods of the great empires of Assyria and Babylonia in the first millennium CE. Violent scenes, mostly related to war, principally show the punishment and killing of enemies according to recurrent visual topoi – such as beheading, beating, impalement, blinding, cutting and amputation of limbs – on different media, from cylinder seals to inlays and larger reliefs.
The use of metaphor deeply and intrinsically characterizes the human mind, specifically in the creation of language: often simply intended as a rhetoric figure of speech, metaphor has many different and consequent implications in the description and representation of the world, in particular for what concerns the expression of emotions and feelings. Metaphors are a cognitive instrument that allows humans to see and represent the world around them and to perceive their body within a system of other bodies that have the same possibilities and capabilities of perceiving and interacting.
The Italian Archaeological Expedition to Nigin of Sapienza University of Rome and University of Perugia started excavations at Tell Zurghul in 2015: a survey and three excavations seasons were carried out in the period between 2016 and 2017. This volume presents the results of the archaeological explorations with the analysis of the stratigraphic and architectural contexts of Area A, B and D as well as the study of the pottery from the contexts so far investigated and the survey in Area C in the western sector of the site.
In 2015, the joint Italian expedition of the Università degli Studi di Perugia and Sapienza Università di Roma started the exploration of the site of Tell
Zurghul in the province of Dhi Qar, in southern Iraq. Tell Zurghul, a site of nearly 70 hectares, is located about 7 km south-east from Lagash and corresponds to the ancient Sumerian city of Nigin (formerly written as Nina).
In Bassa Mesopotamia, dove sorsero le prime città-stato, una missione archeologica italiana sta indagando l'antico centro sumerico di Nigin nell'antica regione dello Stato di Lagash. L'occupazione del centro risale alla metà del V millennio a.C. rivelando interessanti prospettive per la comprensione storica della regione e la relazione con l'ambiente acquatico circostante.
Edizione di testi mesopotamici inediti del III Millennio a.C.: 38 presargonici (Foster) e 177 neosumerici (Alivernini-Greco)
Recent studies have discussed the importance of marshes in the economic landscape of Southern Mesopotamia in the fourth and third millennium BC. If, on the one side, extant documentation offers abundant evidence for marsh natural products, on the other one, mentions of marshes as place of provenance of incoming commodities are quite scarce. This might be due to several factors, among them, to the fact that in economic texts the information about the provenance of incoming commodities can be simply replaced by the name of agents who had to supply specific commodities.
In this article I present an edition of a Neo-Assyrian tablet from Sultantepe two recipes to cure a man who wets his bed. The first recipe comprises a ritual, the second only a potion; both are followed by an invocation to the goddess Ninmah. Through the analysis of parallel texts (BAM 115; STT 239 and VAT 13682), I discuss the diagnostic (), and the two recipes, focusing on the ritual.
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