336 research outputs found
Camsemud 2007. Proceedings of the 13th italian meeting of Afro-Asiatic linguistic. Udine 2007. Ediz. multilingue
No full textRencontre de civilisations sur l’Euphrate : un bilan des sources écrites de Doura-Europos
No full textAn Encounter of Civilizations on the Euphrates: a Survey of Written Sources from Dura-Europos.
Roman Syria was characterized by a multilingual environment and composite anthroponymy. The city of Dura-Europos, on the Middle Euphrates, is a good example of the cultural interactions attested in the region, as is evident from the several cults and languages known from its numerous inscriptions, and from the variety of its anthroponymy. The article deals with the cultural interactions visible in Dura – as reflected in its epigraphs, parchments, papyri, graffiti, and proper names – and tries to evaluate the respective role and importance of the different languages.La Syrie romaine est caractérisée par un milieu multilingue et une anthroponymie très variée. La ville de Doura-Europos, sur le Moyen-Euphrate, est un exemple significatif des interactions culturelles présentes dans la région, comme le montrent les nombreux cultes et langues attestés dans ses inscriptions et la richesse de son anthroponymie. L’article se propose de dresser un bilan des transferts culturels visibles à Doura – et notamment des langues et de leur importance respective – en utilisant les épigraphes, les parchemins, les papyrus, les graffitis, aussi bien que les anthroponymes.Grassi Giulia Francesca. Rencontre de civilisations sur l’Euphrate : un bilan des sources écrites de Doura-Europos. In: Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, vol. 41, n°1, 2015. pp. 73-116
Gzella, Holger: A Cultural History of Aramaic. From the Beginnings to the Advent of Islam. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2015. XV, 451 S. 8° = Handbuch der Orientalistik 111. Hartbd. € 162,00. ISBN 978-90-04-28509-5.
No full textLa liste des oiseaux de Deir ʿAlla et le lexique des animaux en araméen ancien
No full textAbstractThe topic of this article are terms for animals in the Old Aramaic inscriptions. The corpus is quite rich (ca. 50 terms), including both terms for particular mammals reconstructed for Proto-Semitic, and terms that are rarely attested in other Semitic languages. Two peculiar Aramaic forms are already evidenced in Old Aramaic: the word for “cow” created through morphological rather than semantic opposition to the word “bull”, and the word for “serpent” derived from the verb “to live”. The attestation of some terms in Old Aramaic that do not occur in later Aramaic dialects is possibly due, at least in some cases, to external influences (for example, Akkadian in the inscription of Sfiré). Other terms are known later in a slightly different form, maybe due to tabooisation processes. However, the stability of the lexicon in general is quite remarkable. As is usual in ethnobiological classification, the most common taxa by far are generic species
Nabonidus, King of Babylon
No full textIt may seem anomalous to devote this column, which should contain the portrait of someone who contributed to the issue's main topic, to the last Neo-Babylonian king, having at disposal a considerable number of renowned scholars, explorers, philologists, and archaeologists who could well have deserved this attention: Pietro Della Valle, Carsten Niebuhr, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Paul-Émile Botta, Austen Henry Layard, Robert Koldewey, and Ernest Renan are just some of the many possible illustrious candidates.There is basically one reason for the choice of Nabonidus: he is one of the very few characters involved with cultural heritage as both agent and object. As agent, he has been considered the first archaeologist ever, and—even if his description as "archaeologist" may be extreme—his use of the past for ideological purposes is undeniable; as object, he—or rather his acts, attitudes, and dispositions—were reinterpreted and transmitted to modern times through different literary testimonies
Bemerkungen zu Ostrakon Clermont-Ganneau J8 (175+185) aus Elephantine
No full textZusammenfassungDieser Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit einem aramäischen Text der Perserzeit (5. Jh. v. Chr.), der bei den französischen Grabungen auf der Nilinsel Elephantine im Jahr 1908 gefunden wurde. In diesem Ostrakon, das leider unvollständig ist, erscheint der Gottesname Jahweh Ṣaba ʾôt (</jats:p
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