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Buccellati, F. 2016. “3D Models as Vehicles for Archaeological Research: Stratigraphy, Emplacement and Construction.” Studia Eblaitica 2: 15–22.

Buccellati, F. 2019. “Monumentality: Research Approaches and Methodology.” In Size Matters – Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations, edited by F. Buccellati, S. Hageneuer, S. van der Heyden, and F. Levenson, 41–63. Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445389.

Buccellati, F., S. Hageneuer, S. van der Heyden, and F. Levenson. 2019. “Introduction.” In Size Matters – Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations, edited by F. Buccellati, S. Hageneuer, S. van der Heyden, and F. Levenson, 11–14. Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445389.

Buccellati, F. 1998. “3-D Rendering and Animation at Tell Mozan/Urkesh.” In Urkesh and the Hurrians: Studies in Honor of Lloyd Cotsen, edited by G. Buccellati, 53–64. Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 26. Malibu: Undena.

Buccellati, F., S. Hageneuer, S. van der Heyden, and F. Levenson, eds. 2019. Size Matters – Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations. Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445389.

A private seal impression with the Hebrew name “Ezer (son of) Haggai” discovered in the excavations at Tel Burna, Israel. The seal impression dates to the Iron II period and has parallels found at Gezer and Azekah.

The Assyrian King List (AKL) is central to the reconstruction of Assyrian and broader Near Eastern history and chronology. Because of AKL’s significance, locating its original moment of composition has far-reaching historiographical implications. There is no scholarly consensus on the dating of AKL, but a closer look at the internal evidence of A…[Read more]

Brief overview of the visual and linguistic evidence for the value of minerals and colours in ancient Mesopotamia

Brief overview of the visual and linguistic evidence for the value of minerals and colours in ancient Mesopotamia

Overview of the modern myth of a prehistoric great mother goddess

A brief examination of the modern mythology around the faience votive figures from the “Temple Repositories” at Knossos in Crete that were discovered and heavily restored by Arthur Evans and his team at Knossos in the early 20th century

The brief notice of Absalom’s pillar in 2 Sam 18:18 provides an important yet un-usual case of how memory is constructed in ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. Commemoration of the dead typically works from the perspective of the (living) descendent and is directed towards the (deceased) ancestor. Yet in this example Absalom commemorates h…[Read more]

We analyze the processing of cereals and its role at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Anatolia (10th / 9th millennium BC), a site that has aroused much debate in archaeological discourse.

Behind the literary form of testament and expressions memorializing the dead is a concept of how objects, rights, and speech pass from one generation to the next: transmission. This essay examines two interrelated phenomena that give filial succession in the biblical and Ugaritic literature its contours: first, the discourses surrounding…[Read more]

Studies of Egyptian Late Period statuary often assume that the extant corpus is a representative sample of the artistic output of the Twenty-Sixth to Thirty-First Dynasties (c. 664–332 BCE). This assumption ignores the various human processes that affect the survival of statues after their initial dedication. In particular, the Roman practice of c…[Read more]

The present study draws on interdisciplinary research to establish an interpretative framework for an analysis of the material and textual evidence concerning infant loss in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 3000-500 BCE). This approach rejects the notion that highinfant mortality rates result in widespread parental indifference to infant loss, arguing…[Read more]

The meaning of the Akkadian term ṭuppi has been hotly debated by Assyriologists for the greater part of a century. The present article argues that ṭuppi, commonly found in temporal expressions, can only refer to a one-year period. This proposal arises out of the observation that, among a substantial corpus of Neo-Babylonian house rental con…[Read more]

The specific outlook and reach of administration in Prepalatial Crete is the topic of heated debate. The materials most frequently implicated in this debate are clay sealings, usually taken as a clear demonstration of administrative concerns. However, although early sealings might have been used for this purpose, this view tends to be influenced…[Read more]

This article discusses the identity of the Daniel character mentioned in the Book of Ezekiel.