2021 – 07 - The Ancient Near East Today

July 2021

Vol. 9, No. 7

Scene from the Bāveru Jātaka: The veneration of the peacock in Babylon (Shwezigon Pagoda, Pagan, Burma). From: Duroiselle, Chas. 1916. Pictorial Representations of Jātakas in Burma. Pp. 87–119 in: Archaeological Survey of India, Annual Report 1912–13, ed. John Marshall. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India: Fig. 21.

Contacts Between the Cuneiform Cultures and India

July 26, 2021

Six-sided clay prism with written accounts of the military campaigns of Sennacherib. Held by the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC). Photo: Daderot / Wikimedia Commons. CC0 1.0 DEED

Did an Academic Outsider Determine What Saved Jerusalem from Conquest by the Assyrian Emperor Sennacherib in 701 BCE?

July 19, 2021

Symbols representing the pharaoh: the encircling ‘cartouche’, left, and the older palace-façade styled ‘serekh’, right, containing names of the 4th dynasty ruler Snefru (Dave Lightbody).

New Symbols of Hierarchy: On the Origins of the Cartouche and Encircling Symbolism in Old Kingdom Pyramids

July 12, 2021

Fig 1b, cropped

Assurbanipal’s iPad: Wax Boards in the Ancient Near East

July 5, 2021

The Copper Scroll in Cave 3. Photo by Abraham Meir Habermann, via Wikimedia. Public Domain.

A Treasure Quest in the Copper Scroll from Qumran

July 5, 2021

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