#cuneitoot — Public Fediverse posts

Classic post: the biggest Assyriological film festival in history https://www.bookandsword.com/2018/12/02/the-biggest-assyriological-film-festival-in-history/ #histodons #ancMedToot #philology #cuneitoot

New post: how heavy were Neo-Assyrian bows? Sculptures of draw techniques give a hint https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/05/17/how-heavy-were-iron-age-bows-part-3/ #archery #histodons #cuneitoot #neoAssyrian #ancMedToot

I am proud of this two-part series on the Astronomical Diary for the battle of Gaugamela which explains cubeiform and German scholarship in English https://www.bookandsword.com/2015/06/27/two-perspectives-on-the-astronomical-diary-for-gaugamela-part-1-background/ #cuneitoot #histodons #ancMedToot

Classic post: what happens when the big rich temple in the next city sends a lot of armed servants and a bishop who explains that your god is just an aspect of their god so hand over the treasury? https://www.bookandsword.com/2023/09/02/w-g-lambert-on-theological-imperialism/ #histodons #ancMedToot #cuneitoot

What do you do when you are old in Babylonia and don't have a living son? Tappašar's solution https://persiababylonia.org/2018/07/05/getting-to-know-the-babylonians-tappasar-and-the-death-of-her-husband/ #cuneitoot #prosography #ancMedToot

Alessia Pilloni has a blog post about Mesopotamian astral science and modern astrology (the kind you find in newspapers was invented in the 20th century to hold the ads apart although it has much earlier ancestors) https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/zodiacblog/2024/10/08/how-far-and-how-close-is-babylonian-horoscopy-to-us/ #cuneitoot #ancMedToot

Things I learned: Ancient Near Eastern city gates are characterized by a series of two to six gateways one behind another. But unlike in a medieval gatehouse, there is usually no sign that any except the first contained a wooden gate (gates usually turned in vertical sockets and needed stone or brick slots in the wall for a bar). https://www.academia.edu/36154657/D_P_Mielke_Hittite_Fortifications_between_Function_and_Symbolism #archaeology #cuneitoot #ancMedToot #hittite #bronzeAge

If I were teaching I would be tempted to send a student to edit Wikipedia pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murashu_family (this one is based on random books and articles which happen to mention the family, not the most important recent books). I gave it a quick edit but I can't afford the time to rewrite it completely. #wikipedia #cuneitoot #ancMedToot #mesopotamia

This terracotta statuette from Babylon is one of very few images of a woman in the 'Elamite robe' or Faltengewand from the Achaemenid period. Photo of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum, object VA Bab 00405 by Olaf M. Teßmer CC BY-SA 4.0 https://id.smb.museum/object/2060160/bekleidete-frau-auf-einem-postament-stehend #cuneiToot #ancMedToot #materialCulture