Shigeo YamadaUniversity of Tsukuba
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This paper presents an inscribed bronze necklet discovered at Yasin Tepe, one of the largest tell -type sites in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The necklet was found on the floor of a large building complex of the Neo-Assyrian period that probably belonged to an elite family living at the site. The two-line inscriptio...
This paper deals with the names given to the city walls, city gates, and palatial structures in Assyrian capital cities, Assur, Kalhu, Dur-Šarrukin, and Nineveh, in the NeoAssyrian period. These names comprised popular names, which were supposedly used daily, and ceremonial names, which were given for ceremonial-ideological purposes. The names were...
The period from the 17th to the 15th century BCE marks the transition between the Old Assyrian and the Middle Assyrian periods, which are much better documented. The knowledge of the city of Ashur in the obscure period c. 1775-1720 BCE, is gleaned from documentary evidence mainly from upper Mesopotamia, particularly Mari (Tell Hariri), Qattara (Tel...
Agriculture and animal husbandry were first carried out about 8000 BC in Syria-Palestine and northern Mesopotamia, where dry farming was possible. These new life skills were introduced to southern Mesopotamia about 5000 BC, when agriculture was made possible by the use of irrigation technology. After that, however, southern Mesopotamian culture ass...
This book explores aspects of the ancient civilization in West Asia, which has had a great impact on modern human society—agriculture, metallurgy, cities, writing, regional states, and monotheism, all of which appeared first in West Asia during the tenth to first millennia BC.
The editors specifically use the term "West Asia" since the "Middle East...
The article examines the chronographic styles and literary features of the major inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III, king of Assyria (745-727 BC), and discusses the characteristics of the king’s self-presentation expressed there. First, the article deals with the structure of the king’s major inscriptions, while discussing the date and circumstanc...
The inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC) have attracted scholarly interest since the very dawn of Assyriology, with the first discoveries at Nimrud by Layard in the mid-19th century. The search for new evidence for this Assyrian monarch, who played a crucial role in stories told in the Bible, was of prime importance in the late nineteen...
Alongside the continuation of social-administrative order in Ṭabatum and its surroundings along the Lower Habur and the Middle Euphrates from the time of Zimri-Lim to the post-Hammurabi period, some cultural affinity also appears to have been maintained in the region. This article deals with several aspects of the cultural milieu of Ṭabatum in the...
One of the unique finds from the 2009 season of Japanese excavations at Tell Taban is a fragment of a sealed tablet bearing an adoption contract (Tab T09-47). The text is written in the ‘Hana style’ and sealed with the royal seal of Ahuni, ‘king of the land of Hana’; it is probably to be dated to the 15th-14th centuries BC. This is the second Hana-...
Cet article est consacre a Peter Hulin et aux copies qu'il a realise de sa main des inscriptions relatives au roi d'Assyrie, Shalmaneser III, mises au jour a Nimrud. L'A publie ici quelques-unes de ces copies manuscrites trouvees dans les papiers de Hulin ainsi que plusieurs photographies. Quelques remarques d'ordre philologique y sont apportees. P...
The setting-up of royal monuments in the course of royal expeditions is a phenomenon familiar in the history of ancient Mesopotamia. Among the royal records of various Mesopotamian rulers, the inscriptions of Shalmaneser III, king of Assyria (859-824 B. C.), are especially informative on this subject. Over fifty references of this kind in his inscr...
The Assyrian King List, covering the long period of the Assyrian dynastic history, contains in itself clues to examine its textual development. The heterogeneous character of the list is hardly to be explained as the result of a single composition in the late Middle Assyrian period. It is most probable that the text was gradually enlarged through c...