elamite documents, and evidence of elamite writing in general, are rare from this period. however from susa under the sukkalmah period, there are some 550 legal documents in akkadian in various legal subjects, like sale, lease, and judicial procedures; this provides the historian with a unique opportunity fir the study of elamite legal and social institutions. the present essay will edit and tr...

The article, published in the first number of new series East & West journal edited by ISMEO, proposes an innovative methodology, based on pattern recognition techniques, for study metal arrowheads, and a typology mainly focused materials dated between 6th 4th century BCE. authors propose pilot study, part larger project still underway, which 167 arrowheads from sites Persepolis, Tol-e Ajori Su...

the old elamite documents are indeed rare, but from susa in the sukkalmah period there are some 550 legal documents in akkadian which provide an excellent opportunity to study elamite society and culture. the present paper edits and translates a unique and very interesting will made by gimil-adad, a man from susa in the 17th century bc. in order to provide the historical context for the proper ...

His (the eight-tailed dragon’s) eyes are like red ground cherries; his one body has eight heads and eight tails. On his body grow moss and cypress and cryptomeria trees. His length is such that he spans eight valleys and eight mountain peaks. Then Paya-susa-no-wo-no-mikotounsheathed the sword ten hands long which he was wearing at his side, and hacked the dragon to pieces, so that the Pi river ...

By marker rescue of bacteriophage SP02 sus mutants with purified bacteriophage SP02 DNA fragments, 11 of the 17 known bacteriophage SP02 sus loci were assigned to discrete DNA fragments. The left-most genetic locus, susA, was found to reside near one bacteriophage SP02 terminus (EcoRI-C1 fragment), whereas the right-most genetic locus, susP, was found to reside near the other bacteriophage SP02...

With the increasing demand for electricity, overheating has gradually become a common problem power transformers. However, imperfect traditional monitoring method fails to detect whole transformer in real time, which affects safe and economical operation of transformer. This paper was first research utilizing distributed optical fiber sensing system inside running 35 kV realize persistent tempe...