2022 – 09 - The Ancient Near East Today

September 2022

Vol. 10, No. 9

Fragment of a clay tablet, Prayers of Amil-urgal, New Year ritual at Babylon, 72 lines of inscription, neo-Babylonian. © The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

The Babylonian Akītu Festival and the Ritual Humiliation of the King

September 27, 2022

Edouard Despléchin, Moses: Act III: The porch of the temple of Isis: stage maquette [Moïse: Acte III: Le porche du temple d’Isis: maquette de décor en volume], 1863. Bibliothèque nationale de France.

The Biblical Scale of Gustave Doré

September 20, 2022

Old World camels comprise two domestic forms, the Bactrian or two-humped camel (Camelus bactrianus). Photo by Maria Kray.

Camels in the Biblical World of the Ancient Near East

September 13, 2022

Sugar making in Sicily. From an engraving by Filippo Galle Harlem (1537-1612) reproducing a drawing by the painter Giovanni Stradano (Hans von der Straat) of Bruges (1636-1605). © The Trustees of the British Museum.

Medieval Sugar Production in the Southern Levant: A Sweet Story

September 7, 2022

Silver beakers allegedly from the Kam-Firuz area, displaying royal inscriptions written in Linear Elamite script. On the left (a) and in the center (b), texts of Itatu I (ca. 1980 BCE); on the right (c), a text of Pala-ishan (ca. 1900-1880 BCE) (photographs by François Desset; courtesy of the Mahboubian Collection).

Breaking the Code: Ancient Iran’s Linear Elamite Script Deciphered

September 1, 2022

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