Tell Abu Tbeirah – Dhi Qar – Iraq V excavation campaign – September/November 2015 Day 15/10/2015 Time: 4:30 AM Tasks: Site: Licia Romano, Franco D’Agostino, Desiré Bragalone, Stefano Caruso, Ludovica Bertolini, Maddalena Diaco, Salvatore Milli, Dr. Qais Hussein Rasheed, Dr. Abdulamir [...]
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ottobre 10th, 2015 - 13:15 § in Archaeostory
BIG SANTUARIES IN THE ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIAN-GRANDI SANTUARI NELL’ANTICA MESOPOTAMIA
THE TEMPLE The temple was the spatial, ideological and economic center of cities and society of Mesopotamian, the home of God. Each city had its own patron to whom was dedicated a specific cult. Inside the temple there was a statue, the personification of God, the absence of the latter rep[...]
ottobre 3rd, 2015 - 17:51 § in Archaeostory
TITLING OF MESOPOTAMIAN KING-TITOLATURA DEI RE MESOPOTAMICI
Archaeological discoveries have allowed to identify the names of the ancient Mesopotamian rulers since the third millennium B.C. They substantially are three: En “Lord” Ensi (Akkadian ishshi’akkum) “governator” Lugal (Akkadian sharrum) “great man” All [...]
settembre 14th, 2015 - 20:15 § in Archaeostory
SHAMASH -GOD OF SUN AND JUSTICE
WHO IS SHAMASH? Shamash (Utu in Sumerian) was the god of the sun, his ancient Sumerian ideogram consisted of a solar disk between two mountain peaks. His residence was the É-Babbar (House shining) in the city of Sippar in the kingdom of Akkad; elsewhere important for God was Larsa with a Ziq[...]
agosto 1st, 2015 - 10:31 § in Archaeostory
ENHEDUANNA – Princess, Priestess, Poetess // Principessa, Sacerdotessa, Poetessa
Enheduanna A woman’s name that resounds in the Near East Enheduanna, the only daughter of five children of Sargon of Akkad, founder of the homonymous dynasty, lived between 2285 and 2250 B.C. Her name means “High Priestess, ornament of the God, An” (“en” means “[...]
luglio 26th, 2015 - 11:12 § in Archaeostory
The “Royal” Game of Ur – Il gioco “reale” di Ur
Ur Game The Ur Game, also known as “The Game of Twenty Squares”, was found by Leonard Woolley during the excavations of the Royal Cemetery of Ur in the first decades of the XX century. The renowned model of this gameboard, today preserved in the British Museum in London, is only one of sev[...]
luglio 6th, 2015 - 15:00 § in Archaeostory
NINURTA
WHO IS NINURTA Ninurta is the god of thunderstorm and floods in the spring. He is the son of God Enlil, he is presented in the text as “storm of Enlil”. Ninurta is especially the god of farmers (being linked to spring time), those in the north, in Nippur, and in the east, in[...]
luglio 4th, 2015 - 14:30 § in Archaeostory
THE SUMERIAN KING LIST
The numerous archaeological excavations in the land of “Sumer” have returned a very important document, the Sumerian King List, came to us in sixteen versions. All the tablets are written in Sumerian language, although some have an Akkadian influence, maybe caused by to subsequent[...]
giugno 27th, 2015 - 15:00 § in Archaeostory
LEGISLATION IN THE ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA
The aim of the rulers in Mesopotamia was to assert its ability to organize the social and economic life of the kingdom, under the respect of the gods. In the history of the Near East were promulgated various law codes, the best known is that of Hammurabi of Babylon (concerning his 38th year, i[...]
giugno 22nd, 2015 - 14:30 § in Archaeostory
HAMMURABI
INTRODUCTION: Hammurabi (in Akkadian Khammurabi, from Amorite Ammurapi) means “the kinsman is a healer” from Ammu “Paternal kinsman” and Rapi “healer”. He was the sixth king of Babylon and the first of the Amorite dynasty. CHRONOLOGICAL FRAME: In the Old Bab[...]