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Aziz, Lamia. "Gilgamesh, the hero of Mesopotamia." Click here to access this resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/813.
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This thesis creatively reconsiders the ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh and offers a design of the ancient epic as a contemporary, illustrated text. The work is concerned with notions of heroism, and methods relating to construction of imagery. The manifestation of this investigation is the illustrated book Gilgamesh, the Hero of Mesopotamia, which comprises the principal site of research in the project. It consists of thirty-six drawings that explore cyclic composition as a form of narrative discourse.
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Wheat, Elizabeth Ruth Josie. "Terrestrial cartography in ancient Mesopotamia." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4350/.
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Over one hundred and seventy maps and plans are preserved from the ancient Near East, drawn on clay tablets or inscribed in stone, though a full study of all the available cartographic material from Mesopotamia has never before been undertaken. This thesis offers a critical analysis of these maps and plans, with particular focus on their graphic conventions, typology and function in Near Eastern society. The text on many of these maps is also undeciphered and a number of examples are translated here for the first time, including an unpublished map of an irrigation network in the Schøyen Collection. By examining all this material in a single study, it becomes clear that there was a coherent documentary genre in Mesopotamia which was cartographic in nature, and which served a variety of administrative and planning purposes. The Near Eastern cartographic corpus is also contextualised within the wider history of cartography, so that its place in the global development of graphic mapping can be better understood.
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Wilson, E. Jan. "Holiness and purity in Mesopotamia /." Kevelaer : Neukirchen-Vluyn : Butzon & Bercker ; Neukirchener Verlag, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35732069b.
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Watanabe, Chikako Esther. "Aspects of animal symbolism in Mesopotamia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624215.
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Seri, Andrea. "Local power in old babylonian Mesopotamia /." London : Equinox, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41264067f.
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Blaylock, S. R. "Tille Höyük and Iron Age North Mesopotamia." Thesis, Swansea University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636111.
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The multi-period site of Tille Höyük, on the River Euphrates in South-East Turkey was occupied through much of the pre-Hellenistic Iron Age (approximately from the 12th/11th to the 5th centuries BC). The site was excavated between 1979 and 1990 by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. The thesis uses the analysis of the stratification, architecture and material cultural remains revealed by the excavations to examine the nature of the Iron Age sequence at a site on the periphery of North Mesopotamia and, thereby, that of the wider region (including North Syria and South-East Turkey). The thesis aims to produce a coherent account of the stratigraphic and architectural sequence at Tille; to evaluate information on the length of occupation; and to establish the reliability of pottery and selected objects. By comparison with other material on a local, regional, and inter-regional basis, it aims to place the results in their historical, chronological and archaeological context. The strengths of the site: a long stratigraphic sequence; a reasonably well-established chronology; breadth of exposure of architectural plans; a reliable ceramic sequence; are combined to provide an exemplar for the North Mesopotamian Iron Age. Tille adds new factors to an assessment of the Iron Age sequence: demonstrably continuous occupation through the ‘dark ages’ of the 12th/11th centuries; distinctive pottery types tied into the stratigraphic sequence that show other sequences to be incomplete. It enlarges the corpus of material culture; and fills gaps in knowledge of the provincial settlement and installations of the Neo-Assyrian and Persian Empires. Supplementary aspects include the discussion of well-preserved architectural plans of the Neo-Hittite, Neo-Assyrian and Persian periods; and the examination of aspects of archaeological excavation and interpretation with wider applications, in particular the validity of inferences from the study of pottery and artefacts.
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Wang, Xianhua. "The metamorphosis of Enlil in early Mesopotamia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611352.
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Syk, Andrew. "Command and the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 1915-18." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508699.
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Keser-Kayaalp, Elif. "Church Architecture of Northern Mesopotamia, AD 300 - 800." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504057.
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Schmidt, Klaus. "Göbekli Tepe: Stone Age Sanctuaries in Upper Mesopotamia." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113562.
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About 15 kilometers north-east of the Turkish city of Şanliurfa lies the mound of Göbekli Tepe with its Stone Age Sanctuaries. Its enormous deposit layers, up to 15 meters high, have accumulated over several millennia on an area of about 9 hectares. Excavations done by the German Archaeological Institute with the Archaeological Museum of Şanliurfa, which have been carried out since 1995, found a very important site, which contributes to a completely new understanding of the process of sedentism and the beginning of agriculture. Amazingly, no residential buildings have been discovered up to now. However, at least two phases of monumental religious architecture have been uncovered. Of these, the oldest layer, with its richly adorned monolithic T-shaped pillars, is the most impressive. The buildings on this layer are circular, with a diameter of over 20 meters, and constructed from quarry stone. There are the enclosures A-D on the southern slope and enclosure E at the western plateau. Their age is impressive, having been dated to the 10th millennium BC, a time when men still lived as hunter-gatherers. This opened up a layer of the Stone Age, in which the so-called Neolithic Revolution took place. Overlying layer III is layer II, which has been dated to the 9th millennium BC. During this latter period there is a certain reduction both in the size of the structures and in the numbers of pillars. The uppermost layer I is represented by the surface debris including enormous deposits of Hangfußsedimente, accumulations of eroded sediments from layers II and III. There is no occupation from periods younger than the Pre-Pottery Neolithic at the site. The sanctuaries of Göbekli Tepe were completely filled in during the Stone Age. The old surfaces that can be observed in the excavations and the processes that occurred in the sediment have been subjected to pedological analyses and allow the act of filling to be dated into the late 9th millennium BC.El montículo de Göbekli Tepe, con sus santuarios de la Edad de Piedra, se ubica a unos 15 kilómetros al noreste de la ciudad de Şanliurfa, en Turquía. Sus enormes capas de sedimentos, que alcanzan más de 15 metros de espesor, se acumularon en una superficie de alrededor de 9 hectáreas durante varios milenios. En las excavaciones realizadas desde 1995 por el Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI), en cooperación con el Archaeological Museum of Şanliurfa, se descubrió un sitio muy importante que ofrece una comprensión totalmente nueva del proceso de la sedentarización y del inicio de la agricultura. Resulta sorprendente que no se hayan descubierto construcciones residenciales hasta el momento. En vez de ello, se han ubicado, al menos, dos fases de arquitectura monumental, de las que la más temprana es la más espectacular por sus grandes pilares ricamente adornados. Las construcciones de este nivel, hechas de piedras canteadas, son de planta circular y tienen un diámetro de más de 20 metros. Los denominados recintos A a D se encuentran en la pendiente sur, mientras que el Recinto E se ubica en la meseta occidental. Su edad es impresionante, ya que data del décimo milenio a.C., en una época en que el hombre aún vivía de la caza y la recolección; es, por lo tanto, un grado de la Edad de Piedra en el que ocurrió la Revolución Neolítica. La capa II cubre la III y fue fechada en el noveno milenio a.C. En este tiempo se advierte una cierta reducción en el tamaño de las estructuras y en la cantidad de los pilares. La capa I es superficial, con derrumbes e importantes depósitos de sedimentos de piedemonte, como acumulaciones de sedimentos erosionados procedentes de las capas II y III. No existen vestigios más recientes que el PPN (Pre-Pottery Neolithic o Neolítico Precerámico) en el sitio: los santuarios de Göbekli Tepe fueron rellenados completamente durante la Edad de Piedra. Las superficies antiguas se observan en la excavación y los procesos que ocurrieron en el sedimento fueron sometidos a análisis pedológicos que permitieron determinar la edad del relleno en la parte tardía del noveno milenio a.C.
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Whelan, Estelle J. "The public figure : political iconography in medieval Mesopotamia /." London : Melisende, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41090087c.
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Prentice, Rosemary J. "The exchange of goods and services in pre-Sargonic Lagash." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270131.
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Eiland, Murray Lee. "Parthian Nineveh." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307405.
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Lizorkin, Ilya. "Aphrahat's demonstrations : a conversation with the Jews of Mesopotamia." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2998.
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Thesis (DPhil (Ancient Studies)--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Various opinions on the nature of Aphrahat‟s interactions with the Jews have essentially revolved around either accepting or rejecting the claim that the Persian Sage had contact with (Rabbinic) Jews and/or may have been influenced by them. While some significant research went into determining the precise nature of these relationships, the issue was never settled. This dissertation contributes to this ongoing discussion by posing and attempting to answer two primary research questions: 1) Did Aphrahat encounter actual Jews during his own lifetime or did he Simply project/imagine them into his Demonstrations from reading the New Testament collection? If the first question is answered in the affirmative, the focus of the dissertation becomes the following question: 2) Were the Jews whom Aphrahat encountered Rabbinic/Para-Rabbinic or not? To provide answers to these questions the author uses a textual comparative methodology, juxtaposing texts from both sources and then seeking to analyze them in relation to each other. Every section that deals with such comparison is organized into three sub-sections: 1) agreement, 2) disagreement by omission; and 3) disagreement by confrontation (this pattern is consistently followed throughout the study). The author concludes that the answer to both of these questions can be given in the affirmative. First, Aphrahat did not imagine nor project the Jews in his Demonstrations from his reading of the New Testament, but he (and his community) encountered the Jews on the streets of Ancient Northern Mesopotamia. Second, Aphrahat (and his community, sometimes only via his community) indeed had interactions with Rabbinic (or more accurately Para-Rabbinic) Jews.
AFRIKAANSE OSOMMING: Verskeie menings oor die aard van Afrahates se interaksies met die Jode het in hoofsaak gedraai om óf aanvaarding óf verwerping van die aanspraak dat die Persiese wysgeer kontak gehad het met (Rabbynse) Jode en/of deur hulle beïnvloed kon gewees het. Terwyl sekere beduidende navorsing ondersoek ingestel het na bepaling van die presiese aard van hierdie verhoudings, is die aangeleentheid nooit die hoof gebied nie. Hierdie verhandeling dra by tot hierdie voortgaande bespreking en poog om twee primêre navorsingsvrae te vra en te probeer beantwoord: 1) Het Afrahates werklike Jode gedurende sy eie leeftyd teëgekom of het hy hulle eenvoudig in sy “Demonstrationes” na aanleiding van die lees van die Nuwe Testament-versameling geprojekteer/gewaan? Indien die eerste vraag bevestigend beantwoord word, raak die fokus van die verhandeling die volgende vraag: 2) Was die Jode wat Afrahates teëgekom het, Rabbyns/Para-Rabbyns of nie? Om antwoorde op hierdie vrae te kan gee, gebruik die skrywer ʼn tekstueel vergelykende metodologie, deur tekste van beide bronne langs mekaar te plaas en hulle dan in verhouding tot mekaar te probeer analiseer. Elke afdeling wat met sodanige vergelyking te make het, word in drie onderafdelings georden: 1) ooreenkoms, 2) verskil deur weglating, en 3) verskil deur konfrontasie (hierdie patroon word konsekwent dwarsdeur die studie gevolg). Die skrywer kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat albei hierdie vrae bevestigend beantwoord kan word. Eerstens, Afrahates het nie die Jode in sy “Demonstrationes” na aanleiding van sy lees van die Nuwe Testament gewaan of geprojekteer nie, maar hy (en sy gemeenskap) het die Jode in die strate van Antieke Noord-Mesopotamië teëgekom. Tweedens, Afrahates (en sy gemeenskap, partymaal slegs via sy gemeenskap) het inderdaad interaksies met Rabbynse (of meer presies Para-Rabbynse) Jode gehad.
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MacDougal, Renata. "Remembrance and the dead in second millennium BC Mesopotamia." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/29251.
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This thesis uses Continuing Bonds Theory to reinterpret kispum, an ancient Mesopotamian family funerary practice, in a new way. Traditional scholarship has portrayed the purpose of the ritual as apotropaic, and that the family dead are feared as hostile ghosts. This study suggests that profound beliefs about life and death in Mesopotamia, and interactions between the family and deceased loved ones can be found in the material and textual evidence. A new perspective focusing on evidence from the second millennium BC in ancient Mesopotamia is used to investigate the kispum ritual using ideas from the archaeology of emotion and Death and Dying studies. Current understandings based on textual based studies and the varied traditions of archaeological investigation are introduced in Chapter 2. Then, using notions of continued bonds, new insights are explored to better understand the ongoing relationship between the living and the dead. In Chapters 3 through 6 textual sources and archaeological evidence are assessed against this background, and against each other, with attempts to correlate textual with archaeological details. In the context of ancient Mesopotamia, this thesis employs new approaches to mortuary archaeology to provide new insights suggesting ways that conventional methods may be enhanced. Finally, this study also brings us back to an archaeology of death which is interested in attitudes toward the dead.
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Dezzi, Bardeschi Chiara. "Architettura domestica nella Mesopotamia settentrionale nel 2. millennio A.C." Bivigliano (Firenze) : LoGisma, 1998. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/39989091.html.
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Seymour, Michael. "The idea of Babylon : archaeology and representation in Mesopotamia." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445913/.
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This thesis presents a new approach to the history of archaeology in Iraq. The representation of Babylon is taken as a case study through which social, political and cultural factors in the formation and development of European archaeology in Iraq are examined. Babylon's history as the subject of scholarly, religious and moral thought, and of artistic and literary representation, allows the development of archaeological research on the city to be analysed in relation to these other approaches. The thesis demonstrates that the production of knowledge about the past within modem archaeological discourse is inseparable from a range of non- archaeological epistemologies and traditions of representation, and that the history and historiography of archaeology are therefore vital to the understanding and evaluation of interpretative methods and disciplinary structures in the present. A diverse group of sources on Babylon are brought together, placing the rise of archaeological approaches to ancient Mesopotamia in their cultural context: well known biblical and classical sources, travel writing, poetry, theatre and fine art are all examined in terms of their impact on awareness and understanding of Babylon in modern Europe. Patterns of change and continuity traced in Babylon's historiography as a cultural entity are shown to diverge significantly from the patterns of development usually outlined in histories of archaeology, and yet to be as important in shaping the discipline itself and our knowledge of Babylon within it.
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Hall, Barbara Ann. "Corporate Land-Holding and Agricultural Extensification in Early Mesopotamia." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/113408.
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Girotto, Elisa <1982>. "Il dominio della violenza: la regalità guerriera in Mesopotamia." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/4630.
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In questa ricerca è indagato il tema della regalità guerriera in Mesopotamia. Lo studio si basa su fonti iconografiche e testuali di diverso genere prodotte tra la seconda metà del IV millennio e la prima metà del I millennio a.C. Nel primo capitolo è ripercorsa la storia degli studi e sono discusse le metodologie impiegate nella ricerca. Il capitolo II è dedicato alle vicende e alle caratteristiche (aspetto, attributi,…) delle principali figure guerriere mesopotamiche (divinità, eroi, sovrani). Nel capitolo III la documentazione presa in esame è contestualizzata storicamente, rivolgendo una particolare attenzione alle fasi maggiormente creative per quanto concerne l’elaborazione dell’immaginario della guerra mesopotamico (periodi Tardo Calcolitico, Protodinastico, Accadico e Neoassiro). Nei capitoli seguenti sono discusse le immagini (iconografie, metafore, ecc) impiegate per la rappresentazione della guerra: il capitolo IV è dedicato al momento che precede lo scontro, il V al momento della lotta, il VI al trionfo. Le fonti iconografiche sono descritte in modo esteso all’interno del catalogo allegato, mentre all’interno dei capitoli si presta attenzione di volta in volta solo a quegli elementi che risultino pertinenti al tema al momento oggetto di indagine, mentre le fonti testuali, di cui è offerta soltanto una selezione, sono citate all’interno del testo. Il VII capitolo contiene le considerazioni conclusive. Le corrispondenze nella rappresentazione del sovrano, delle divinità e degli eroi, per quanto concerne sia la loro fisionomia che il loro comportamento, sono intese come espressioni della cosmovisione delle culture vicino-orientali antiche, in cui la lotta, spesso visualizzata come tempesta, è vista come principio propulsore della vita e la violenza benefica contro il nemico è destinata alla restaurazione di una condizione di ordine, giustizia e prosperità. Il repertorio di immagini che ne risulta riflette dunque un codice espressivo tradizionale, pur potendo assumere anche, allo stesso tempo, funzioni di volta in volta propagandistiche e/o magiche.This study deals with the representation of war and warrior figures (gods, heroes, kings) in Mesopotamian iconographic and textual sources from the second half of the 4th millennium to the first half of the 1st millennium BC. Chapter I is dedicated to the history of the studies on war and kingship in Mesopotamia and to the presentation of the methodology used in this research. Chapter II is devoted to the most important Mesopotamian warrior gods, heroes, and kings. In Chapter III the documentation is historically contestualised, with a special attention to the Late Chalcolitic, Protodynastic, Akkadian and Neo-assyrian periods, which appear to have been especially creative phases as far as the elaboration of “war imagery” is concerned. The remaining chapters are devoted to the analysis of the images used for the representation of the moment before the battle (Chapter IV), the conflict (Chapter V), and the triumph (Chapter VI). A detailed description of all iconographic documents used in the analysis is contained in the attached catalogue, while only the elements connected to the individual iconographic themes analysed in each chapter are discussed in the text. Selected textual sources are only mentioned in the text. Chapter VII offers a summary of the study and some final considerations. It is suggested that the precise correspondences in the way the king, supernatural heroes, and warrior gods were represented mirror the “cosmovision” of ancient Near Eastern cultures, according to which “war” (i.e. the conflict between opposite elements), often visualised as a storm, represents the driving force of life, and violence against the evil enemy was necessary in order to restore order, justice and wealth. As a consequence, the resulting imagery reflects a traditional code of expression (hence the persistence of some of these images over the centuries and millennia), while having had, at the same time, propagandistic and/or “magical” functions as well.
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Tonetto, Laura <1988>. "La Chaff-faced Ware tra Alta Mesopotamia e Transcaucasia." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/3979.
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La tesi indaga la presenza di chaff-faced ware in Transcaucasia, seguendo la sua espansione nello spazio e nel tempo. La ricerca viene affiancata dallo studio della compresenza con altri elementi stranieri. Infine, riassume le possibili cause dell'esportazione.
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Simpson, St John. "Aspects of the archaeology of the Sasanian period in Mesopotamia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.577570.
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Brown-deVost, Bronson [Verfasser]. "Commentary and Authority in Mesopotamia and Qumran / Bronson Brown-deVost." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. http://www.v-r.de/.
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Wencel, Maciej Mateusz. "Towards an absolute chronology of early Mesopotamia : a radiocarbon perspective." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d5145ffb-3a6c-46c7-ab2b-79ed6df33d41.
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The region of Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq, saw a number of important socio-cultural transformations during the 4th - 3rd millennia BC, which led to the emergence of the world's first urban, literate civilisation. These crucial developments reverberated across the neighbouring regions and greatly contributed to the later Classical and Judaeo-Christian traditions. Despite the importance of this period, our understanding of its chronology is limited. The main aim of this thesis is to build a reliable absolute chronology for the Uruk, Early Dynastic, and Akkadian periods in Mesopotamia using radiocarbon (14C) dating. Radiocarbon dates published in the archaeological literature underwent a thorough evaluation in order to ensure that only reliable measurements were included in the analysis. New dates were produced for the periods and contexts most lacking in radiocarbon data. Archaeological and textual sources were used to create Bayesian models in order to produce even more precise time estimates. The resulting periodisation of Mesopotamia was compared to the contemporary cultural sequences of ancient Iran and the Syrian Jezirah. While corroborating the standard Middle Chronology model, the results highlighted a number of intricacies relevant to our understanding of the early history of the Mesopotamian civilisation. Most importantly, this thesis argues that the developmental process was one of long periods of cultural continuity punctuated by sudden changes and shorter phases of innovation and creativity.
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Denham, Simon. "The meanings of late Neolithic stamp seals in North Mesopotamia." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-meanings-of-late-neolithic-stamp-seals-in-north-mesopotamia(6593a3bd-eb74-4a28-8435-afd3f4f56cd2).html.
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The late Neolithic of North Mesopotamia has long been held up as the first example of a ‘global’ culture with aspects of shared material culture, most notably pottery styles and subsistence strategies, spread across North Mesopotamia, the Northern Levant, and parts of south-east Anatolia. Increasing research in the past twenty years has illustrated that the material similarities visible in the late Neolithic do not represent a closed cultural community, but instead reflect a network of loosely connected groups who were members of imagined communities that linked people within shared cosmologies. Since their discovery in the early decades of the twentieth century stamp seals have been treated as a type artefact of the late Neolithic (particularly one of its constituent parts the Halaf) where they have been used to argue for the presence of sealing systems based around administrative storage of personal or communal property and possibly trade relations. However, except for a thesis published in 1990, late Neolithic stamp seals have never been comprehensively studied or interpreted primarily within their own context. Instead previous studies of stamp seals have tied stamp seals into a modernist narrative of progression that implicitly culminates in modern, Western, Nation States. This research challenges and deconstructs this narrative to demonstrate there is little evidence that seals in the late Neolithic were used for administrative purposes. To this end it gathered and re-classified the available data on provenanced stamp seals using a classificatory ontology called prototype theory that allows for more reflexive classification then the existing Aristotelian classifications. The thesis argues that stamp seals were indexical symbols with their symbolism being used to link members of imagined communities within real communities across the late Neolithic ‘world’. These people were members of a perceived descent group originating in shifting relationships to place during the change from sedentary farming communities in the eighth millennium BC to more mobile communities in the seventh millennium BC. At the same time as negotiating these supra-community identities seals were also used indexically in a variety of sub-community ways being used for a variety of magical (primarily apotropaic and talismanic) uses. As part of this I argue sealing practices in the late Neolithic relate to specific events of efficacious sealing using the power in the seal’s design.
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Pitts, Audrey. "The Cult of the Deified King in Ur III Mesopotamia." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467243.
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The topic of divine kingship in Mesopotamia, and in the Ur III period (ca. 2112-2004 B.C.E.) in particular, has been the subject of studies focused on aspects such as its ideology, rhetoric, political motivation, and place in the history of religion. This dissertation is concerned with more pragmatic aspects of the phenomenon, and investigates what, if any, effect the institution of divine kingship had on day-to-day life. The Ur III period was selected both because four of its five kings were deified during their lifetime, and over 95,000 administrative, i.e. non-ideologically oriented, records dating to this period are available for analysis. The main focus of this thesis is on cult, the essential signifier of divinity in that society, and, specifically, on the manner in which the cult of the deified king was established, extended, and popularized. The primary source utilized was the Base de Datos de Textos Neo-Sumerios (BDTNS).
The first chapter demonstrates that at the center of the cult of the deified king were effigies that underwent numerous ritual treatments and were housed in both their own and in other deities' temples, and that in these respects the king's cult was identical to those of the traditional gods. A list of the individual statues and their locations is provided, in chronological order of attestation. Areas where ramifications of the king's godhood might be identified outside of cult are also addressed. The chapter is bracketed by discussions of divine kingship in the immediately preceding (Sargonic) and following (Isin-Larsa) periods, for comparative purposes.
The second chapter provides evidence that processions of cult statues by boat and chariot, and offering before them at specific festivals and sites outside of temples were relatively common events. As cult images of the deified kings were among those so treated, it is clear that the Ur III kings saw the benefit of these practices, with their concomitant festivities, banquets and entertainment, for publicizing their own cult among the largely illiterate populace. In addition, I analyzed the movements and activities of the king himself, as recorded in the administrative archives. These show that the kings were frequently in the public eye as they traveled, mainly by boat, among the cities of southern Babylonia, to ritual events both in- and outside of temple settings.
The third chapter addresses the issue of the effect of the concerted efforts to publicize the king's cult on the population at large. settling on onomastics as the best proxy for determining the public's reaction available. Two hundred and sixty-seven individual names in which the name of the deified king was used as a theophoric element are identified, with Šulgi, the second Ur III king and the first of that dynasty to be deified during during his life, the most popular honorée by far. I examine the statements that the holders of these names are making about a particular divine king, and show that virtually all such names have a counterpart incorporating the name of a traditional deity. I also provide a representative sampling of the people who were given or had adopted such names in terms of their sex, ethnicity, and job title or function in order to determine if this practice was limited to a particular demographic, and conclude that it was widespread, affecting all levels of society. From this I deduce that the deliberate efforts of the kings to popularize their cult may be termed successful.
An appendix contains two tables summarizing the onomastic material. Table A lists all of the names in which the king's was incorporated as the theophoric element, along with their translation. Table B provides the data that was used to differentiate among the individual persons who bore one of the names listed in Table A.Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Westhead, Jonathan Michael. "Royal ideology in Mesopotamian iconography of the third and second millennia BCE with special reference to gestures." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96899.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis aims to examine to what extent the visual representations of ancient Mesopotamia portrayed the royal ideology that was present during the time of their intended display. The iconographic method is used in this study and this allows for a better understanding of the meaning behind the work of art. This method allows the study to better attempt to comprehend the underlying ideology of the work of art. The eight images studied date between three thousand BCE and one thousand BCE and this provides a broad base for the study. By having such a broad base it enables the study to provide a brief understanding of how the ideology adapted over two thousand years. The broad base also enables the study to examine a variety of different gestures that are portrayed on the representations. This thereby provides the reader with a better understanding of why certain gestures were used and how the underlying ideology was communicated through these movements. The study concludes that while the gestures lend a life-like appearance to the representation they do not solely portray an underlying ideological message. Rather, they enhance the already inherent ideological message.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek tot watter mate die visuele voorstellings van Ou Mesopotamië die koninklike ideologie — van die tyd toe hulle uitgestal is — uitgebeeld het. Die ikonografiese metode is in hierdie studie gebruik en maak dit moontlik om 'n beter begrip van die betekenis agter die kunswerk te verkry. Die metode stel die studie in staat om die onderliggende ideologie van die kunswerk beter te verstaan. Die agt bestudeerde beelde dateer tussen drieduisend v.C. en 'n duisend v.C. en bied 'n breë basis vir die studie. So ‘n breë basis stel die studie in staat om te verstaan hoe die ideologie oor meer as twee duisend jaar aangepas is. Die breë basis stel die studie ook in staat om 'n verskeidenheid verskillende gebare wat uitgebeeld word, te ondersoek. Hierdeur verskaf dit die leser met 'n beter begrip waarom sekere gebare gebruik is en hoe die onderliggende ideologie deur middel van hierdie bewegings gekommunikeer is. Die studie kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat terwyl die gebare 'n lewensgetroue voorkoms aan die voorstelling gee, hulle nie uitsluitlik onderliggende ideologiese boodskappe uitbeeld nie. Inteendeel, hulle versterk die reeds onderliggende ideologiese boodskap.
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Campbell, Stuart. "Culture, chronology and change in the later Neolithic of north Mesopotamia." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26378.
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The aim of this thesis is to examine the spatial, temporal and social patterning of the late Neolithic of north Iraq. In traditional terms, this covers the Hassuna and Halaf cultures. Underpinning much of the analysis is a new chronology for the period which fits the available evidence better than has been achieved previously. This chronology emphasises the continuities as much as the changes and stress has been laid on making it general and able to accommodate regional variations. Important new information on the transition between the Hassuna and the Halaf was obtained by the excavation of one site, Khirbet Garsour, and the detailed surface collection of others in the North Jezira Project survey. Instead of this transition being very abrupt, it is argued that it is a smooth change in north Iraq with considerable cultural continuity. The spread of a single ceramic style over central and northern Iraq and northern Syria is proposed as occurring late in the Hassuna/Samarran sequence rather than several hundred years later in the Halaf. In chapter 6, it is argued that the period saw a progressive degradation of the environment in the main areas of settlement, which may have had an important influence on potential subsistence strategies. Chapter 7 presents new information on the sites from the North Jezira Project survey in north Iraq. Site distributions are analysed on as fine a chronological scale as possible and an emerging settlement hierarchy by the end of the Halaf is suggested. This chapter also considers how space was used within sites and suggests that major changes in the composition and relations of social groups may have occurred during this period. Chapter 8 evaluates evidence for long and short distance exchange systems using the examples of obsidian and pottery. It is suggested that exchange of raw materials was already taking place in a sophisticated manner even at the start of the period. There is evidence that these exchange systems were becoming more complex and transferring larger quantities of goods by the end of the Halaf and that new types of products are being included in the exchange.
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Charles, Michael Peter. "Agriculture in Lowland Mesopotamia in the Late Uruk Early Dynastic period." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339437.
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Matthews, Roger John. "Clay sealings in early dynastic Mesopotamia : a functional and contextual approach." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272624.
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Mosa, Fadil Hassan. "Historical origins of accounting : the contributions of Iraq and ancient Mesopotamia." Thesis, University of Hull, 1995. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:15418.
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The origin of modern accounting is an unsettled phenomenon. Several scholars have traced that origin to the ancient Greece, to India, to Mesopotamia, and Egypt. There is no systematic study of the role which each ancient community has played in the development of modern accounting. Received knowledge from accounting history, to date, is that modern accounting has its roots in Europe, especially ancient Greece and Italy. The purpose of this thesis is to attempt to modify this accepted truth and to suggest that some aspects of the roots of modern accounting can be traced to Iraq and the ancient Mesopotamia. Accounting is a progressive science which develops as it is passed from one generation to the next. Knowledge of our past helps us to understand our present and predict the future. Modern accounting may be said to have become possible with the introduction and gradual adoption of rational procedures in arithmetic and bookkeeping. Therefore, it is important to know how our forebears practised their accounting in the cradle of civilisation, i.e. Assyria and babylonia, where mankind is said to have built its first civilisation, and to have invented a unique writing system. Unfortunately, Iraq lacks sufficient literature dealing with the origins and the history of accounting. One reason for the paucity of information on accounting in the Mesopotamia is that much of the archival information that would have led to the discovery of accounting history of the region are in ancient Mesopotamian languages and in clay tablets which have not been studied by archaeologists interested in accounting. Another reason is the lack of interest in the history of the Iraqi people brought about by the long period of wars with its neighbours and the lack of interest in Iraq by people outside its borders. Yet another reason and perhaps the most important is the scarcity of Iraqi scholars interested in accounting history of Iraq. This lack of literature on Iraqi accounting history motivates the attempt to fill this important gap in historical literature. The study covers the period between 3600 BC and the advent of the Islamic religion (that is, until the beginning of the 12th century AD). With the help of archaeological discovery of the tools of writing, numbering systems and accounts of the ancient Mesopotamia, the analysis of socio-economic institutions such as palaces, temples, Islamic religion, capitalism and markets and their relation to accounting, I reconstructed the role of the ancient Mesopotamia in the discovery of modern accounting. To discipline the synthesis and analysis, Littleton' s (1966) framework for discovering the historical roots of bookkeeping (and indeed, accounting) was adopted. This required finding out how a society recorded their events and transactions (the art of writing); made computations (arithmetic and mathematics); dealt with property rights; exchanged goods either through the medium of money, credit or by barter, and the nature of their commerce and how they accumulated wealth and accounted for it. The presence of these prerequisites for the development of bookkeeping in Iraq 4000 or more years ago would lead to the suggestion that the inhabitants of ancient Iraq had a culture of accounting. The thesis concludes that these prerequisites existed in the ancient Iraq and that, in several respects, the ancient Iraq had an accounting culture that predated many of these antecedents as a part of the protoliterage age.
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Atia, Nadia H. "War in the cradle of civilization': British perceptions of mesopotamia, 1907-1921." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528956.
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Stevens, Kathryn Rebecca. "Beyond the Muses : the Greek world and Mesopotamia in Hellenistic intellectual history." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607831.
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Jonker, Gerdien. "The topography of remembrance : the dead, tradition and collective memory in Mesopotamia /." Leiden ; New York ; Köln : E. J. Brill, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb357734712.
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Collins, Paul Thomas. "Social ideology and the Uruk phenomenon." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340469.
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Chirichigno, Gregory Conrad. "Debt slavery in the Ancient Near East and Israel : an examination of the biblical manumission laws in Exod 21:2-6, 7-11; Deut 15:12-18; Lev 25:39-54." Thesis, Open University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327753.
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Lladó, Santaeularia Alexandra. "Animales salvajes en Mesopotamia: los grandes mamíferos en el tercer milenio a. C." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668513.
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Los animales han tenido siempre una gran repercusión en la Historia del ser humano. Durante el Paleolítico eran cazados como fuente de alimento para complementar una dieta pobre en proteínas. Más tarde, la domesticación de algunas especies fue uno de los principales motores de la revolución neolítica, convirtiéndolos en un recurso económico de gran importancia. Además de la carne y las pieles, se empezaron a explotar otros productos secundarios como la leche o la lana, y algunos animales fueron empleados como fuerza de trabajo agrícola y medio de transporte terrestre. Pese a estos cambios trascendentales, los animales salvajes siguieron teniendo una importante presencia en la sociedad. Los depredadores eran una amenaza constante para las personas y sus rebaños, mientras que los herbívoros seguían siendo cazados por necesidad o por entretenimiento.
El caso de Mesopotamia no es distinto. A lo largo de toda su historia encontramos multitud de referencias a los animales salvajes tanto en las fuentes escritas como en las representaciones figurativas, demostrando que su importancia, al menos simbólica, era parecida a la de los animales domésticos. Incluso algunos de ellos tuvieron cierta trascendencia en actividades económicas.
En este contexto, la presente tesis analiza la presencia de fauna salvaje en la Mesopotamia del tercer milenio a. C. y su relación con la sociedad de la época, centrándose en el caso concreto de los grandes mamíferos. Para ello, se propone un enfoque multidisciplinar que incluye el estudio de los restos faunísticos, las representaciones figurativas y las fuentes escritas (lexicográficas, literarias y administrativas), con el objetivo de tener una visión lo más completa posible sobre la situación concreta de cada una de estas especies en el periodo estudiado.Animals have always had quite a large repercussion on humans’ history. In the Paleolithic, they were hunted as feeding source to complement a low-protein diet. Later on, the domestication of some species facilitated the Neolithic revolution as animals became an important economic resource. Apart from consuming their meat and using their furs, other secondary products such as milk and wool started to being exploited. Some others were used as working animals in agriculture and for terrestrial transportation. Even though all these transcendental changes, wild animals still had an important presence in society. Predators were a constant threat for people and herds, while herbivores were hunted because of necessity or as entertainment. Mesopotamian case was not different. Throughout all its history, numerous references to wild animals in textual sources as well as figurative representations can be found, what demonstrates that their importance was similar to the domestic animals’, at least in a symbolic way. Some of these wild animals even had a certain transcendence in economic activities. In this context, the aim of this dissertation is to analyse the presence of wild fauna in Mesopotamia during the third millennium BC and its relationship with the society of the period, focusing on the specific case of big mammals. To achieve such a goal, an interdisciplinary approach is proposed, which includes the study of faunal remains, figurative representations and written sources (lexical, literary and administrative) to provide a general picture of the status of the animal world in the third millennium BC.
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Calderbank, Daniel. "Moulding clay to model sealand society : pottery production and function at Tell Khaiber, Southern Iraq." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/moulding-clay-to-model-sealand-society-pottery-production-and-function-at-tell-khaiber-southern-iraq(76331926-b5ec-484c-ba0e-fcc4ecbdc90e).html.
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The mid 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamia is defined by the ebb and flow of power politics, with the Old Babylonian state, the Kassite state, and the kings of the Sealand, vying for power over the southern alluvial plains. Although widespread sociopolitical instability is acknowledged during this period, the scarcity of archaeological and textual evidence has often seen it labelled as a âDark Ageâ in Mesopotamian history. Recent excavation at the site of Tell Khaiber (2013-2017), southern Iraq, provides the first material to be reliably associated with this Dark Age, and more specifically to the period of Sealand control. This thesis attends to the pottery assemblage from Tell Khaiber as a means of assessing the everyday lives of a community adapting to this upheaval. This research examines the pottery assemblage on multiple analytical levels, synthesising a vast body of textual, archaeological, scientific, and material data. Firstly, a comprehensive Sealand period typology is subjected to stylistic comparison on both a local and (inter)regional level, in order to assess the shifting networks of interaction at play during this period. The thesis then turns to a detailed analysis of pottery production, focusing particularly on production techniques, the standardisation of the product, and the scale of the industry. Finally, various pottery use-contexts are established, and the distribution of these activities are mapped onto Tell Khaiberâs public building. Since these multi-faceted pottery engagements articulated with the (re)production of Sealand society and economy, this research provides unparalleled insights into the everyday workings of this poorly understood state system.
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Yousefi, Najm Al-Din. "Knowledge and Social Order in Early Islamic Mesopotamia (60–193 AH/680–809 CE)." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37206.
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The present study explores the ways in which competing frameworks of knowledge sought to order society in early Islamic Mesopotamia (60–193 AH/680–809 CE). This research examines the conditions under which two frameworks of knowledge came into being; how they tried to maximize their power through forging alliance with the caliphate; how they established the legitimacy of their knowledge; and how they promoted their visions of social order. The first framework of knowledge is associated with the secretaries, as state bureaucrats, who helped transfer ancient administrative methods and practices to the emerging Islamic polity. Their immense assistance in tackling manifold problems of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates consisted not only in offering technical know-how, useful administrative practices, expertise, and political wisdom, but also in addressing the foundational problems of the polity. This research argues that the secretaries' solution to the caliphate's structural problems—particularly the crisis of legitimacy—might have run counter to the social order promoted by Muslim religious scholars (the 'ulamā'). The secretaries' framework of knowledge and its concomitant social order, then, posed a threat to the authority of the 'ulamā' who pursued an alternative framework of knowledge rooted in sacred sources of law. Delving into a number of treatises composed and/or translated by the champions of these knowledge frameworks (e.g., ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd b. Yaḥyā, Ibn al-Muqaffa‘, and Abū Yūsuf), this dissertation concludes that the validation of knowledge and expertise involved more than solving specific problems such as maximizing the government revenues and efficiently collecting taxes from subjects; it rather relied on the ability of knowledge and expertise to offer solutions to the problem of social and political order.Ph. D.
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Ashkar, Shahira Ann 1964. "Faunal material and the Uruk expansion: a look at nine sites in greater Mesopotamia." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/558240.
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Conroy, R. "Temples and houses : the social significance of ritual during the Ubaid period in Mesopotamia." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2001. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.646843.
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Zambon, Francesca <1976>. "Aspetti della formazione statale: confronto geomorfologico, storico-culturale e archeologico tra Egitto e Mesopotamia." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1662.
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La tesi si occupa di mettere in relazione l'Egitto e la Mesopotamia durante il periodo predinastico, cercando di enfatizzare gli elementi di somiglianza e quelli di divergenza tra queste due regioni in cui per la prima volta si manifesta la nascita dell'istituzione statale. Lo Stato, istituzione che ha il compito di accentrare il surplus e di redistribuirlo, sembra si sia infatti manifestato in Egitto e in Mesopotamia quasi contemporaneamente intorno alla metà del IV millennio a.C.circa. Per approfondire le modalità attraverso cui le due regioni sono pervenute all'affermazione dello Stato, è utile un confronto geomorfologico, storico culturale ed infine archeologico.
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Pettersson, Joanna. "Gula & Ninisina; identiska eller olika? : en jämförande textanalys av två gudinnor från Mesopotamien." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-274975.
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Thousands of years ago in Ancient Mesopotamia there was an abundant Pantheon of gods and goddesses. Circa 3000–2300 B.C.E, separate cults started to form relating to two of these goddesses: Ninisina and Gula. They were quite similar, both associated with healing, as were several other goddesses in the area. Over time they all fused, and their names disappeared one by one, until one remained; Gula. Scholars of today often tend to see them all as one type of goddess, their names interchangeable. This essay researches Ninisina and Gula, and the intention is to see if they truly are the “same”. A number of hymns and healing spells are analysed and used to compare the goddesses. This comparison is based on three themes; “Healing”, “Praise” and “Prayer & Intention”, and finds that indeed the manner of their healing and their characters differ. The essay also discusses how central their roles as healers are. It is shown that even though healing is always mentioned in every chosen text, other traits are often emphasised more.
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Sjöstedt, Samuel. "Bekräftelse eller hot : Teologers reaktioner på likheter mellan bibelberättelser och mesopotamisk myt." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-273695.
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In this essay I examine several christian and jewish theologians views on the similaritys between, and the highly likely common history of, the biblical storys of the creation and the flood and corresponding mesopotamian myths. The goal of this exersice is to find what influences the theologians views on the subject, aswell as finding out what those views are. Examined factors include when the theologian wrote, whether he was/is jewish or christian, and whether he was/is conservativ or liberal. The biggest factor examined in this essay seems to be whether the theologioan is conservative or liberal. Intressting to note is also that most theologians either seem to accept both the existense of similaritys and the common history or reject them both.
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Beckman, Christopher. "The bearded man and the pig-tailed women : hierarchy-enacting practices in Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia." Thesis, University of Reading, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.627922.
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During the Middle to Late Uruk period (ca. 3800-3100 BC) in greater Mesopotamia and its surrounding regions, there emerged for the first time in human history a series of early complex polities. Within these polities human labour was harnessed and consolidated to serve the interests of the proto bureaucratic organisations that governed them. These organisations were controlled by elites who classified society in new hierarchical terms, which both reproduced and legitimated their dominance and power. This thesis examines this phenomenon in three sites in greater Mesopotamia where there was evidence of early complex polity formation: Uruk-Warka, Godin Tepe, and Arslantepe. It considers how the stratification of society in these sites was expressed through "hierarchy-enacting practices" associated with the administrative artefacts used by the proto bureaucratic organisations intent on legitimating elite power. It examines the iconographic representations placed upon the artefacts, the material practices undertaken with them, and the built environment in which they circulated. It asks who or what participated in organisational activities involving the artefacts and where these activities took place, and then situates them within the dominant organisational discourses of that time. This thesis argues that the hierarchy-enacting practices associated with the administrative artefacts used by these proto-bureaucracies led to a hierarchical understanding of society. Administrative artefacts and the spaces in which they operated became sites where interpellation was practised, identity positions were drawn, and subjects were created in the legitimation of new forms of social organisation and power. As such, these practices contributed to the socialisation and stratification of individuals and groups critical to the process of early complex polity formation.
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Clegg, Sarah. "Capturing the standards; measures in the social and economic context in third millennium BC Mesopotamia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.756775.
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Lic, Agnieszka. "Christian stucco decoration in southern Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf region, sixth to ninth centuries." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:23636a63-9682-4a2a-b27b-49f2f3df59ac.
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Christian archaeology and art of the region under the jurisdiction of the Church of the East in the Late Antique and early Islamic period is an underresearched field of studies, which exists in between more developed disciplines such as Byzantine and Syriac studies as well as Early Christian, Sasanian and Islamic archaeology and art history. However, archaeological excavations of the last century, especially in southern Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf region, now allow research to be conducted on the most important medium of artistic expression of the region - stucco. Considered from the technological, stylistic and iconographic point of view and within the aforementioned cultural contexts, it reveals that the Christian stucco production of the region was shaped by Sasanian traditions and contemporary Byzantine and Islamic influences, but also that it developed an innovative and highly creative vocabulary of forms and motifs. It was especially among the Gulf communities of Sir Bani Yas, al-Qusur and other sites that this transformative approach towards traditional and contemporary artistic models manifested itself within a short period between the late seventh and the early ninth centuries. Slightly more conservative is the character of Christian art of southern Mesopotamia in the eighth and early ninth centuries. An interesting exception is a relief found at a church in Koke in the region of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, in which the Sasanian technique of deep relief is combined with the Byzantine dress of the person represented. This fusion of culturally divergent elements testifies to the double identity of the Christians living under the Sasanians - and later, in the early Islamic caliphate - who were recognized as a part of society but distinctive for their religion.
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Potts, Timothy Faulkner. "Aspects of the relations between Southern Mesopotamia and her eastern neighbours in the late fourth and third millenia B.C." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329182.
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Calini, Ilaria. "Le temps et ses structures : dimensions narratives et philosophiques de la temporalité dans les littératures de la Mésopotamie et de la Grèce anciennes." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE5084.
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Les interactions culturelles dans la Méditerranée ancienne sont de plus en plus au centre des études sur l’Antiquité. Ce travail s’intéresse en particulier aux reflets des contacts entre la Mésopotamie et la Grèce anciennes dans la production littéraire. Sujet central et fil conducteur de la recherche est la temporalité narrative qui structure les textes littéraires, en particulier les compositions poétiques à sujet mythologique. La reconstruction proposée de la découverte de la Mésopotamie de la part de l’Occident moderne et contemporain permet de mettre en lumière les orientations idéologiques et les incohérences méthodologiques qui ont souvent biaisé l’interprétation et la systématisation des sources cunéiformes. Ce travail présente une synthèse et une réorganisation des « dimensions du temps » en Mésopotamie, dans une perspective de comparaison critique avec les analyses développées sur ces mêmes questions pour la Grèce. Le poème akkadien d’Erra a été sélectionné comme cas d’étude, en raison de son articulation narrative complexe, dans laquelle la composante temporelle est particulièrement significative pour la construction syntaxique et pour l’exégèse du texte même. Son analyse permet par la suite de développer un « parcours thématique guidé » à travers une série d’exemples choisis dans la production littéraire grecque des époques archaïque et classique, de l’épopée aux discussions philosophiques, jusqu’à la tragédie, afin de montrer que les parallélismes établis avec le poème d’ Erra révèlent l’encodage littéraire d’un « système de pensée » partagéThe cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean are becoming ever more important in the studies on ancient times. This research focuses on the effects of the contacts between ancient Mesopotamia and Greece on literary texts. Narrative temporality, particularly in mythological poems, is the central argument and theme. The reconstruction here made of the discovery of Mesopotamia by the modern and contemporary Western culture allows shedding lights on the ideological orientations and the methodological incoherence which often distorted the interpretation and systematisation of cuneiform sources. This research proposes a synthesis and a reorganisation of the « dimensions of time » in Mesopotamia, in comparison with the same analyses on ancient Greece. The Akkadian poem of Erra has been chosen as case study, because of the complexity of its narrative, in which the temporal element is particularly relevant for the syntactic reconstruction and the exegesis of the text itself. Furthermore, the analysis of this text allows the development of a « thematic guided journey » through a series of literary examples from archaic and classical Greece, from epic to philosophy and to the tragedy, to show that the parallelisms with the Erra poem exemplify the literary coding of a « common way of thinking »
Le interazioni culturali nel Mediterraneo antico sono sempre più al centro degli studi sull’Antichità. Questa ricerca si interessa ai riflessi dei contatti tra la Mesopotamia e la Grecia antiche nella produzione letteraria: argomento centrale e filo conduttore è la temporalità narrativa che struttura i testi letterari, in particolar modo le composizioni poetiche di soggetto mitologico. La ricostruzione qui proposta della scoperta della Mesopotamia da parte dell’Occidente moderno e contemporaneo permette di mettere in luce gli orientamenti ideologici e le incoerenze metodologiche che hanno spesso distorto l’interpretazione e la sistematizzazione della documentazione cuneiforme. Una sintesi e una riorganizzazione delle « dimensioni del tempo » in Mesopotamia sono proposte in chiave di comparazione critica con le analisi svolte su questi stessi temi per la Grecia. Il poema akkadico di Erra è stato selezionato come caso di studio per via della sua articolazione narrativa complessa, nella quale l’elemento temporale è particolarmente rilevante per la costruzione sintattica e l’esegesi del testo stesso. La sua analisi permette inoltre di sviluppare un « percorso tematico guidato » attraverso una serie di esempi scelti nell’ambito della produzione letteraria greca di epoca arcaica e classica, dall’epopea alle argomentazioni filosofiche, fino alla tragedia, al fine di mostrare che i parallelismi stabiliti con il poema di Erra esemplificano la codificazione letteraria di un « sistema di pensiero condiviso »
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Robson, Eleanor. "Old Babylonian coefficient lists and the wider context of mathematics in ancient Mesopotamia 2100-1600 BC." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296052.
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Cripps, E. L. "Land tenure and social stratification in Ancient Mesopotamia : Third Millennium Sumer before the Ur III Dynasty." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432994.
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