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In Judeans in Babylonia, Tero Alstola presents a comprehensive investigation of deportees in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. By using cuneiform documents as his sources, he offers the first book-length social historical study of the Babylonian Exile.

Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic. Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller is a thematically focused collection of 34 brand-new essays bringing to light a representative selection of the rich and varied scientific and technical knowledge produced chiefly by the cuneiform cultures. The contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions of new texts as well as analytical studies dealing with various issues of Mesopotamian medical and magical lore. Currently, this is the largest edited volume devoted to this topic, significantly contributing to the History of Ancient Sciences

Before Writing, Volume 1: From Counting to Cuneiform. Denise Schmandt‐Besserat. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. 288 pp.Before Writing, Volume 2: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. Denise Schmandt‐Besserat. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. 452 pp.

International audience ; Three cuneiform tablets bearing year names of kings of Esnunna but discovered at Sippar on Babylonian territory are examined as a source for the political history and the social and economic interactions in the frontier zone between the Kingdoms of Esnunna and Babylon in the late 19th and early 18th century BC.

International audience ; Three cuneiform tablets bearing year names of kings of Esnunna but discovered at Sippar on Babylonian territory are examined as a source for the political history and the social and economic interactions in the frontier zone between the Kingdoms of Esnunna and Babylon in the late 19th and early 18th century BC.

Optical character recognition for ancient non-alphabetic scripts
Cuneiform is one of the earliest writing systems in the world, invented at the end of the fourth millennium BCE. It is usually written by pressing a stylus on moist clay tablets, creating a three-dimensional script. The script is logo-syllabic, like the Chinese or Japanese writing systems, meaning the same sign can be read logographically, as a word, as syllables, or as determinatives (ie semantic classifiers). The correct reading depends on the context. There are close to a thousand cuneiform signs, not all of which were used simultaneously; usually about 200-300 signs were used at once. This article shows Shai Gordin, Senior Lecturer at Digital Pasts Lab in Ariel University, look at the deciphering of ancient non-alphabetic scripts, and the technology we use to understand it.

International audience Three cuneiform tablets bearing year names of kings of Esnunna but discovered at Sippar on Babylonian territory are examined as a source for the political history and the social and economic interactions in the frontier zone between the Kingdoms of Esnunna and Babylon in the late 19th and early 18th century BC.

Introduction -- A first case: the story of Cain and Abel -- Blood feud and state control -- The development of places of refuge in the Bible -- Pollution and homicide -- Typologies of homicide -- Lex Talionis -- International law: the homicide of a foreign citizen -- Conclusion -- Appendix: cuneiform sources on homicide.

Preface: three walks in central park -- Introduction: making media actionable -- The invention of ubiquitous computing -- Interpreting post-desktop practices -- Futures of computing via histories of writing -- A theory of two archives, from cuneiform to augmented reality -- Forms of actionable media -- Creating actionable media -- Epilogue: kairotic intellectuals -- Bibliography -- Index.

The present article analyses the information supplied by cuneiform documents written in periods of political conflict. One has tried to focus on the consequences that had the siege of cities on civil populations and institutions, using the administrative documentation of 7th century BC Babylon, Uruk and Nippur.

In the hittite lexicograghy, the analysis of some cuneiform documents of the Hittite Kingdom archives, belonging to the Imperial period (XIV-XIII centuries B.C.), allows to know better some aspects of the vocabulary used to express the exercise of the power and the forms of the politicalmilitary administration and organization of a specific imperial territory. Certainly, this was related to the complex process of the hittite imperial expansion and consolidation of this period ; Dentro de la lexicografía hitita, el análisis de algunos de los documentos cuneiformes de los archivos del reino hitita, pertenecientes al período Imperial (siglos XIV y XIII a.C.), permite conocer mejor algunos aspectos del vocabulario empleado a la hora de expresar, de algún modo, el ejercicio del poder y las formas de administración y organización político-militar de un territorio imperial determinado. Algo que estuvo en estrecha relación con el complejo proceso de expansión y consolidación imperial hitita del período.

The book offers the edition of all presently known administrative texts from Girsu (modern Telloh, Iraq), dated to the Lagash II period (XXII century BCE). The evidence consists of roughly 600 cuneiform tablets – including 34 published here for the first time – that are presently scattered over various collections (mostly in London, Paris, Istanbul, Strasbourg, Dublin). They are of enormous historical value, in that they provide unique information for the reconstruction of urbanization, political affairs, and social developments in Mesopotamia at the time of Gudea, the most notable figure of his dynasty, and of his son Urningirsu II.