A Middle Assyrian Fragment Mentioning Iron from Kassite Nippur

A Middle Persian Inscription from Persepolis

This article deciphers and analyzes a  previously unknown Sassanian mint location represented by the inscription WLČ., based on the analysis of a Middle Persian inscription found in Persepolis, and on the linguistic changes that occurred during the transition to modern Persian. Evidence is presented to show that this previously unknown Sassanian mint designation corresponds to the modern-day ci...

AVICENNA ON UNIVERSALS A FRAGMENT FROM HIS LOST AL-MUJAZ

Mesopotamia Neo - Assyrian Period

No collection of laws from the iNeo-Assyrian period is known to us. If a text of this kind had ever existed, it seems highly likely that it would have been part of Assurbanipal's famous library in Nineveh. But neither in Nineveh nor in twenty-three excavated sites located in different parts of the empire have archaeologists have succeeded in unearthing so much as a fragment of such a text. In a...

Hired Labor in the Neo-assyrian Empire

1. Introductory Remarks For the understanding of any state and any society it is vital to have a grasp of the key principles of its economic basis. Yet for the Neo-Assyrian Empire our knowledge is still severely limited, in contrast to the NeoBabylonian Empire where the field of economic history has long enjoyed popularity among modern scholars. At the root of this problem lies the extremely di...

Making Assyrian texts available to the public

In recent years several initiatives have been launched aiming at establishing digital infrastructures for scholars in the humanities. DIGHUMLAB 1 is a Danish distributed research infrastructure that besides offering deposit of digital resources also facilitates research in terms of LT tools usage and browsing data by selection of annotated metadata (Henriksen et al., 2014). This paper concerns ...