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Gilgamesh and the Translation of Philological Crises
Kaplan Hall 365This year, the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh celebrates the 150th anniversary of its modern rediscovery in 1872: since then, the epic has swept like a Flood through the literary world, and...
People of Empire: Assyrianness Through the Looking-Glass of the Neo-Assyrian State
In the first half of the first millennium BCE, the Neo-Assyrian state forged what Mario Liverani has called the world's "prototype empire". Empires are often associated with imperial peoples: a...
Creating the Cult of a Goddess: Politics and Religion at Mari in the Old Babylonian Period
Fowler A222 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los AngelesTraces of ancient Mesopotamian religion have been discovered by archaeologists working across the modern Middle East—temples and other religious structures, worn by time; small fragments of once-opulent cult statues and...