Elamite Tag

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).

september 2022 | Vol. 10.9 By François Desset, Kambiz Tabibzadeh, Matthieu Kervran, Gian Pietro Basello, and Gianni Marchesi Research in the humanities achieves definitive results

Clay cone inscription in Akkadian by ‘Kudur-Mabuk, father of the Emutbal land, son of Šimti-šilhak”, ca. 1825 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris (AO 6445 = RIME 4: 267–268, text no. 2) © 2007 RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Franck Raux

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The Exceptional Career of a Mesopotamian Ruler without a Crown: Kudur-Mabuk and the Kingship of Larsa

January 2022 | Vol. 10.1 By Baptiste Fiette Where did Mesopotamian kings come from? In the second third of the 19th century BCE, the kingdom of Larsa in southern Mesopotamia went t

Elamite Tag

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

The Exceptional Career of a Mesopotamian Ruler without a Crown: Kudur-Mabuk and the Kingship of Larsa