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I went to the @metmuseum.org & asked to be directed to the Assyrian art.
❌ The first worker sent me to the Islamic art section.
❌ The second told me no Assyrian art was on display due to construction, which was untrue.
I found Mesopotamian art on my own.
The ancestors called me.
❌ The first worker sent me to the Islamic art section.
❌ The second told me no Assyrian art was on display due to construction, which was untrue.
I found Mesopotamian art on my own.
The ancestors called me.
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I went to the @metmuseum.org & asked to be directed to the Assyrian art.
❌ The first worker sent me to the Islamic art section.
❌ The second told me no Assyrian art was on display due to construction, which was untrue.
I found Mesopotamian art on my own.
The ancestors called me.
❌ The first worker sent me to the Islamic art section.
❌ The second told me no Assyrian art was on display due to construction, which was untrue.
I found Mesopotamian art on my own.
The ancestors called me.
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Nov. 5, 1925: People of Kirkuk, Iraq, assist in a dig at the site of the lost Assyrian city of Nuzi being carried out by U.S. archaeologist Edward Chiera. The exploration has already yielded several thousand clay tablets as old as 3,400 years ago.
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Nov. 5, 1925: People of Kirkuk, Iraq, assist in a dig at the site of the lost Assyrian city of Nuzi being carried out by U.S. archaeologist Edward Chiera. The exploration has already yielded several thousand clay tablets as old as 3,400 years ago.
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The Assyrian Provincial Seal of Surkh Dom-i Luri, a pattern for Darius I’s Seal
Alibaigi, Sajjad. 2025. A Clue to a Puzzle: The Assyrian Provincial Seal of Surkh Dom-i Luri, a pattern for Darius I's Seal. Arta 2025.004. This short article examines the iconographic origins of the famous seal of…
Alibaigi, Sajjad. 2025. A Clue to a Puzzle: The Assyrian Provincial Seal of Surkh Dom-i Luri, a pattern for Darius I's Seal. Arta 2025.004. This short article examines the iconographic origins of the famous seal of…
The Assyrian Provincial Seal of Surkh Dom-i Luri, a pattern for Darius I’s Seal
Alibaigi, Sajjad. 2025. A Clue to a Puzzle: The Assyrian Provincial Seal of Surkh Dom-i Luri, a pattern for Darius I's Seal. Arta 2025.004. This short article examines the iconographic origins of the famous seal of Darius I, for which an Egyptian provenance has been proposed and now in the British Museum (BM 89132). Although the influence of the glyptic art of the first millennium BC on Achaemenid seal-carving is well evident, scholars have paid less attention to this influence on the cylinder seal of Darius I.
www.biblioiranica.info
September 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The Assyrian Provincial Seal of Surkh Dom-i Luri, a pattern for Darius I’s Seal
Alibaigi, Sajjad. 2025. A Clue to a Puzzle: The Assyrian Provincial Seal of Surkh Dom-i Luri, a pattern for Darius I's Seal. Arta 2025.004. This short article examines the iconographic origins of the famous seal of…
Alibaigi, Sajjad. 2025. A Clue to a Puzzle: The Assyrian Provincial Seal of Surkh Dom-i Luri, a pattern for Darius I's Seal. Arta 2025.004. This short article examines the iconographic origins of the famous seal of…
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Fun piece of evidence for #Aramaic-#Akkadian language contact in the Neo-Assyrian empire I just learned about (from Cherry 2023): several cases of scribes writing the logogram for 'son' (DUMU) when they mean 'lord' (EN) and vice versa, confusing Neo-Assyrian mar'- 'son' with Aramaic *māriʔ 'lord'.
Aramaic Loanwords in Neo-Assyrian 911–612 B.C. By Zack Cherry
This study identifies and analyzes Aramaic loanwords occurring in Neo-Assyrian texts between 911 and 612 B.C. As two Semitic languages, Neo-Assyrian and Aramaic are sibling-descendants of a postulated...
www.eisenbrauns.org
February 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Fun piece of evidence for #Aramaic-#Akkadian language contact in the Neo-Assyrian empire I just learned about (from Cherry 2023): several cases of scribes writing the logogram for 'son' (DUMU) when they mean 'lord' (EN) and vice versa, confusing Neo-Assyrian mar'- 'son' with Aramaic *māriʔ 'lord'.