2022 – 06 - The Ancient Near East Today

June 2022

Vol. 10, No. 6

Pillar figurine from Lachish. Metropolitan Museum of Art 34.126.53. Public Domain.

Who’s Afraid of the Goddess of Ancient Israel?

June 28, 2022

Palmyra with the Temple of Bel. Used under CC BY-SA 3.0, credited to Bernard Gagnon

Portraits of People and Society From Palmyra

June 21, 2022

Farming fields around the site of Tell Barri, photo taken in autumn 2005. A. Sołtysiak, published under CC BY-NC-SA.

Rapid Change of Climate Did Not Cause the Fall of the Akkadian Empire

June 14, 2022

Photograph depicting the University of Pennsylvania excavations in Nippur in the 1890s. The Murašu archive was found in Nippur during the excavations in 1893. Judean farmers from the surrounding countryside visited Nippur to deal with the Babylonian Murašu family who were entrepreneurs in the land-for -service sector. The image is published in H. V. Hilprecht (1896), Old Babylonian Inscriptions Chiefly from Nippur II, plate XXX. The image is in the public domain, accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

Everyday Life in Exile: Judean Deportees in Babylonian Texts

June 7, 2022

A silver hoard from Tel Arad, found inside a cooking pot and dated around the middle of the eighth century BCE (Courtesy of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University; photo by Sasha Flit)

A New Money Economy at the Dawn of the Iron Age

June 1, 2022

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