This article proposes an interpretive framework of paradox and wonder as a new approach to understanding the affective properties social consequences miniature objects in archaeological record. Building upon current scholarly theories miniatures inherently intimate, this accounts for how small-scale artworks were also designed deliberately manufactured elude user attempts at full sensory access...

in this paper, an investigation on the relation between state-building and near eastern religion is attempted. analyzing the city-state of ḥaṭrā (iraq, close to kirkuk), it is demonstrated that pre-islamic state craft in the region was dependent on the initiative of the parthian monarchy in iran. the kings of the arsacid dynasty attempted to bestow the local arabic tribes in the jazira with a c...

In this article we discuss the archaeological landscapes of Erbil plain during Hellenistic period (late fourth century BCE–mid second BCE) based on data collected Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) between 2012 and 2019. We use a landscape archaeology approach to trace patterns habitation, migration, land exploitation, water management from Iron Age early first millennium CE. Over course BCE, w...