Dear Colleagues,

It is with a heavy heart that I send additional photos to you.  The attached link will take you to a Dropbox set of photos of Hatra, Nimrud, Nineveh and Nebi Yunis (Jonah's Tomb) taken between 2008 - 2010. 
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fycr1mc92u3zba8/AAAjrfn_4trNHeVjbJFFxeQna?dl=0

The photos were taken at various times, including visits by Deputy Minister of Tourism and Antiquities representative Qais Rashid, UN/UNESCO representatives Jake Morland, Andrea Recchia, Tamar Teneishvili and Sami Al Khoja, museum expert Stuart Gibson, and numerous journalists including Jane Arraf, Steven Myers, Eros Hoagland, Quil Lawrence, and Alice Fordham, among others. 

LTG Robert Caslen (Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy at West Point) conducted visits to Hatra and Nimrud in 2009 to assess the sites related to looting in his role as Commander of Multi-National Division North (MND-N) and Commander, 25th Infantry Division.  He is shown in several photos, with his permission.

Pictures of our Iraqi colleagues have not been included or are very limited for their safety.  Photos are my own except where noted: MP for Col. Mary Prophit, US Army, and DS for Diane Siebrandt, former US State Department Cultural Heritage advisor. 

I hope these photos help answer questions about the sites' significance, and I would direct you to the Gates of Nineveh blog, where colleague Christopher Jones has done an excellent job identifying objects from the Mosul Museum.  https://gatesofnineveh.wordpress.com/

I have also included a powerpoint and link to the National Museum images of the Nimrud Gold from the Queens' Tomb taken by U.S. Army photographer SFC Noreen Feeney in 2003.  http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/secret/

Please let me know if you have questions and I will do my best to assist.  Many thanks to Chuck Jones and our colleagues on the ground and in harm's way for keeping us up to date.  Ore thoughts are especially with our Iraqi colleagues and friends during these devastating times.

Very respectfully,
Suzanne

Suzanne E. Bott, PhD, AICP
Project Director |Iraq & Afghanistan Heritage Conservation
Drachman Institute
College of Architecture, Planning, Landscape Architecture
The University of Arizona
http://capla.arizona.edu/drachman

Several people have asked if they may use the photos and/or forward the email to others.  Yes to both; these are for educational and public awareness purposes.  Please feel free to use them in whatever capacity, and please provide photo credit to Mary, Diane, or to me.  

The ICRI publishes the journal of Caucasology, entitled Amirani. Articles concerning the peoples, cultures and languages of the Caucasus, from the perspective of any of the humanities or social sciences, will be considered for publication. The articles may be written in English, French, Georgian, German, Russian, or any other language accessible to a significant number of Caucasologists.

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By having each volume of Amirani available online, it vastly increases the accessibility of these materials to those who are interested in this particular topic. Its also invites those who have already gained completed significant studies on the Caucasus region to submit relevant and scholarly articles for publication. Archived articles are also available on this website, as is information on events of interest and other information-sharing activities.

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From this volume on, PSN will be published in PDF format. If you click on the link below, PSN will be opened in your Acrobat Reader.

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Das Anliegen meines Blogs ist es, den Bogen zwischen den eigenen (neutestamentlichen) Forschungen und einer interessierten Öffentlichkeit zu spannen. Ich möchte denen Einblick in die Bibelwissenschaft und ihre Arbeitsweisen geben, die sonst wenig mit dieser theologischen Disziplin zu tun haben. Konkret bedeutet das für mich: Relevantes und Interessantes sammeln, sichten, vorstellen (häufig) und kommentieren (manchmal).

Über diesen fachwissenschaftlichen Horizont hinaus interessieren mich Dinge, die auch viele andere interessieren, die im universitären Alltag zu Hause und in der universitären Lehre tätig sind, oder selbst eine Dissertation schreiben.

Wie es zu dem Namen “Grámmata” kam, können Sie hier nachlesen.

http://grammata.hypotheses.org/ von Michael Hölscher ist lizenziert unter einer Creative-Commons-Namensnennung-Nicht-kommerziell-Weitergabe-unter-gleichen-Bedingungen-4.0-International-Lizenz (sofern nichts anderes angegeben ist, auch Fotos ohne Urheber-Nennung sind jeweils von mir selbst und unterliegen somit dieser Lizenz).

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VISUAL PAST is an open-access online journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of past visual cultures. It refers to the study of images and the visual as roughly outlined by visual culture studies, Bildwissenschaften and similar areas which became apparent in the wake of the iconic and the pictorial turn. VISUAL PAST is understood as a forum for diverse directions, not privileging certain theories, methodological positions, or paradigms. Accordingly, it is not devoted to singular disciplines but favours trans- and interdisciplinary approaches.

Editors: Jacobus Bracker & Martina Seifert

1, 2014

Editorial 2014 (deutsche Fassung), p. 1—3

Jacobus Bracker & Martina Seifert

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Editorial 2014 (English version), p. 4—6

Jacobus Bracker & Martina Seifert

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Tagungsbericht Die Kunst der Rezeption, p. 7—12

Jacobus Bracker & Ann-Kathrin Hubrich

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The Construction of Brancusi’s Primitivism, p. 13—45

Amelia Miholca

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2.1, 2015

Special Issue: Die Kunst der Rezeption/The Art of Reception

Frontmatter, p. I—VII

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Einleitung: Bildwanderungen, p. 1—9

Jacobus Bracker & Ann-Kathrin Hubrich

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The Art of Quotation. Forms and Themes of the Art Quote, 1990–2010. An Essay, p. 11—64

Nina Heydemann

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Die Alchimie des Bildes: Surreale Transformationen bei Remedios Varo, p. 65—87

Linn Burchert

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Vom männlichen Bestehen einer Gefahr zur Ideologie der totalen Vernichtung: Skylla und die Sirenen von Homer bis Herrad von Hohenburg, p. 89—135

Susanne Moraw

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Venus in the Mirror: Roman Matrons in the Guise of a Goddess, the Reception for the Aphrodite of Cnidus, p. 137—154

Sadie Pickup

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Sarcophagus S. Maria Antiqua: Some Comments on Reception as an Element of Identity in Late Antique and Early Christian Sarcophagi, p. 155—174

Adriana Kapsreiter

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Lying in the Arms …: The Origins and Reception of Luc Olivier Merson’s The Rest on the Flight to Egypt, p. 175—210

Liesbeth Grotenhuis

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Rezeption griechischer Plastik als Phänomen der neuzeitlichen Grabkunst – Das Grab für Peter Joseph Leydig auf dem Mainzer Hauptfriedhof, p. 211—242

Fabienne Richter

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Rekonstruktion als Transformation: Nachbauten antiker römischer Architektur, p. 243—269

Anita Rieche

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Zwischen Dalí, Spitzweg und Altdorfer – Interpikturalität in Literaturverfilmungen am Beispiel der Goethe-Adaptionen Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1976) und Faust (2011), p. 271—292

Anett Werner

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Fremde und Vertrautheit in Hannah Höchs Serie Aus einem ethnographischen Museum um 1924–1934, p. 293—314

Lara Viktoria Rath

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Wandernde Bilderzählungen und die Erzählforschung in der Klassischen Archäologie, p. 315—346

Jacobus Bracker

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Mehr als (Ab-)Bilder! – Bildwahrnehmung in der ersten Hälfte des ersten vorchristlichen Jahrtausends in Mesopotamien, p. 347—388

Elisabeth Wagner-Durand

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Blick_folgen. Zur Visualisierung von Augenbewegungen bei der Kunstbetrachtung, p. 389—405

Hanna Brinkmann & Laura Commare

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Das Gesicht als „Spiegel der Seele“? – Problematiken der Bildnisinterpretation am Beispiel der Wissenschaftsgeschichte des Caesar- und Trajansporträts, p. 407—489

Lisa Jureczko

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Japanese “Idols” in Trans-Cultural Reception: the Case of AKB48, p. 491—526

Wendy Xie

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Homo immergens. Immersion als Bestimmungsgröße für eine Medien- und Kulturtheorie medialer Hybridität, p. 527—551

Lars C. Grabbe

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Federico Zuccaris Dante Historiato– Ein multimediales Bilderbuch, p. 553—599

Tanja Westermann

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Vermittler, Verfolger, Verführter – der Leser des Kopenhagener Stundenbuches, p. 601—624

Rostislav Tumanov

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„[…] die Autorität der Antichen […]“ – Das Modell visueller Autorität am Beispiel frühneuzeitlicher Antikenrezeption, p. 625—667

Sebastian Dohe

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Rezeptionsprozesse im Rechtsraum am Beispiel des Lüneburger Niedergerichts, p. 669—715

Ann-Kathrin Hubrich

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This newsletter provides a summary of the most recent reports on the damage to Syria’s heritage.  It should be stressed that much of this data cannot be verified, but it is hoped that it will assist in the documentation of the damage occurring, and help raise awareness. If the newsletter is not displaying properly, click here to view it online in a browser.

Main Contents New from Heritage for Peace | Updates on Damage | Updates on Looting | Intangible Heritage | Reports and Updates from the Syrian DGAM | Policy Changes and Updates from Syria | International Activity | News Updates Stories Heritage for Peace contacted for press interviews, raises awareness   Heritage for Peace participates in conference in Barcelona  Damage in Damascus Damage in Aleppo, Homs, and Idlib Looting attempt thwarted in Tell Ammar by locals  DGAM embarks on digitization project DGAM participates in Japanese conference on Syrian heritage  Universities work to preserve Syrian heritage World Archaeological Congress announces Dead Sea Accord March planned in Washington D.C. UNESCO organizes meeting on cultural heritage International efforts to stop illegal antiquities trade coming up short Historic Gardens Review highlights garden destruction in Syria, calls for more information Looting and destruction of heritage in the news New from Heritage for Peace Heritage for Peace contacted for press interviews, raises awareness  The destruction of heritage in Mosul and Nineveh in Iraq has brought attention to how antiquities are at risk, and led to requests for interviews from H4P. This provides an opportunity to talk about H4P and what we do to safeguard Syrian heritage during the present crisis.On February 27 2015, Isper Sabrine of Heritage for Peace discussed the recent events in Mosul on Hoy empieza todo con Marta Echeverría, on Spanish National Radio’s Radio 3, found here, as well as an interview with Radio Nacional de Espana. Rene Teijgeler was interviewed by various agencies including the Dutch national Press Agency Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau, or ANP (27 February), the Belgian newspaper De Morgen (28 February) and national radio De Ochtend (3 March), the Dutch newspapers Trouw (5 and 7 March) and De Volkskrant (7 March), and the Dutch National Radio 1 –Journaal (Newshour 6 March). Heritage for Peace participates in conference in Barcelona Heritage for Peace ran a seminar in Barcelona with the Catalan Institute of Cultural Heritage and the Spanish Council of Research on February 21 2015. Photos can be found here and details of the event here.

Updates on Damage (Bomb shrapnel on the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.       Photo credit: DGAM) Damage in Damascus Vivid photograph from Lens Young Dimashqi shows the damage to the dome of Abed Al-Qader Al-Hussaini Mosque in Yarmouk, Damascus (February 22 2015), here.  The DGAM reports that several buildings in Old Damascus, including the Umayyad Mosque, have been damaged by a bomb. The attack took place on February 5 2015, and many photos can be found here. (Al-Dalati/Al-Dalaty Mosque in Homs.      Source: Protect Syrian Archaeology) Damage in Aleppo, Homs, and Idlib Images show damage, some very severe, to Al-Dalati/Al-Dalaty Mosque in Hammedyia/Hamidia, Homs, shared by Protect Syrian Archaeology (February 17 2015) here. Video shows the damage of Darqouta/Der Qita site from ancient villages of Northern Syria, Idlib, shared by Protect Syrian Archaeology (February 22 2015) here. Videos by Ismael Abed Alrahman show damage to Khan al_Basha, Aleppo here, as well as Aleppo’s Qadi Askar Mosque (March 1 2015) here, shared by Protect Syrian Archaeology.

Updates on Looting Looting attempt thwarted in Tell Ammar by locals The DGAM reports on March 4 2015 that attempts at looting by armed gangs around Tell Ammar in Northern Syria have been rebuffed by the local community here. Looting continues to be a major problem throughout Syria. See the ‘International Activity’ and ‘News’ sections for more information. Intangible Heritage None Reports and Updates from the Syrian Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums DGAM embarks on digitization projectThe DGAM is undertaking a digitization project to preserve important, historic maps and documents from archives considered to be at risk due to the conflict. For the brief with pictures, see here. DGAM participates in Japanese conference on Syrian heritage The DGAM participated by video conference in a Tokyo symposium sponsored by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs on February 21 and 22 2015. The conference was entitled ‘A crisis of Syrian cultural heritage and the efforts to safeguard it’ and is detailed here. Policy Changes and Updates from Syria None International Activity (Mosaic museum restoration. Photo copyright: Penn Museum) Universities work to preserve Syrian heritage The seventh meeting of the Ancient Near Eastern Seminar for the 2014-15 academic year on Wednesday, March 11, will be Dr. Michael Danti, American Schools of Oriental Research Cultural Heritage Initiatives and University of Pennsylvania Museum: “The Erasure of Millennia: The Cultural Heritage Crises in Syria and Northern Iraq”. The meeting will be held at the Columbia University Faculty House, starting at 5.30. The Penn Museum announces that the Penn Cultural Heritage Center has helped with conservation efforts at the famous museum at Maarat al-Numan, south of Aleppo. See the report (March 5, 2015) here. ASOR’s Syrian Heritage Initiative has received $57000 from the J.M. Kaplan fund to further its work, as reported here. On February 27, The School of Theology and Religious Studies of The Catholic University of America and Crossroads Cultural Center presented: “In the Eye of the Storm: Archaeology in the Midst of War in Syria”, a talk offered by Giorgio Buccellati & Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA and Federico Buccellati, Goethe University. The lecture focused on the efforts of local populations to defend their cultural heritage, revolving around the site of Urkesh in northeastern Syria (see news item below on Urkesh). On February 24 2015, the American University in Rome hosted Dr. Katharyn Hanson, who discussed ‘Protecting Cultural Heritage in Crisis: Syria and Iraq”. ASOR has published a video of the lunch presentation of its Syrian Heritage Initiative (February 6 2015) here. World Archaeological Congress announces Dead Sea AccordThe World Archaeological Congress (WAC) announced the Dead Sea Accord on March 3, 2015. The Accord calls on states to protect cultural heritage, asserting ‘that the expression and preservation of culture, both tangible and intangible, are basic human rights.’ The content and context of the document can be found here. March planned in Washington D.C.Activists are planning a march in Washington to urge the US government to do more to prevent ‘ISIS from destroying what remains of Mesopotamian civilization’ on March 10th. See the announcement here. UNESCO organizes meeting on cultural heritageUNESCO organised a meeting entitled ‘Improving inventories of built, movable, and intangible cultural heritage’ in Beirut between the 16th and 18th of February 2015. The DGAM participated in this event, designed in part to improve the tracing looted and stolen antiquities. For more details, see here. News Updates(Not covered in other sections) International efforts to stop illegal antiquities trade coming up shortAliza Litchman writes a guest post on the blog of The Council on Foreign Relations (March 6 2015), saying that the international community has not been successful in dealing with the illegal sale of cultural artefacts from Syria and Iraq, and calls for greater focus and a higher level of funding, especially on the part of the US The post can be found here. Historic Gardens Review highlights garden destruction in Syria, calls for more informationHistoric Gardens Review (December 2014) discusses how the conflict in Syria is damaging the country’s gardens and green spaces – also an aspect of Syria’s cultural heritage. Historic Ottoman courtyards in Aleppo and newer landscaping projects at sites such as Raqqa have already been affected. If anyone knows of other places, please contact the magazine’s editor, Gillian Mawrey, on office@historicgardens.org Looting and destruction of heritage in the news On March 2, 2015, the Wall Street Journal suggests that destroying cultural heritage should be considered a war crime here. Marina Lostal discusses ‘Syria’s world cultural heritage and individual criminal responsibility’ in an article published in the International Review of Law. The head of the DGAM, Maamoun Abdel-Karim, discusses the state of Syria’s museum collections and the looting of antiquities  in Al-Akhbar (February 27, 2015) here. The Washington Post (February 25 2015) reports on the smuggling of Syrian antiquities into Britain where they are being sold to fund ISIS in an article found here. The Looting Matters blog discusses the fallout from the BBC’s coverage of the link between smuggled antiquities and IS funding here. Heritage Daily (February 25, 2015) discusses an exhibit about the history of Tall Mozan / Urkesh running in north eastern Syria here. Hurryiet Daily News (Turkey) reports the role of Turkish markets in moving stolen Syrian antiquities  to Europe here. Biblical History Daily asks ‘can we prevent archaeological looting’? (February 23 2015). Syria’s culture minister argues that Syria needs to play a key role in fighting antiquities theft, in a piece by Reuters here. Syria’s culture minister accuses Turkey of complicity in antiquities smuggling in Today’s Zaman, here. The Art Media Agency reports on a February 16 lecture given by Édouard Planche of UNESCO on the looting and trafficking of goods from war zones here.

Nuova Archeologia è la rivista dei Gruppi Archeologici d’Italia nata dall’evoluzione della rivista cartacea Archeologia, il primo organo di stampa ufficiale dell’Associazione. Oggi la rivista è una testata autonoma.

Nuova Archeologia raccoglie tutte le notizie riguardanti l’affascinante mondo dei Beni Culturali, non cerca mai lo scoop ma vuole gridare e nello stesso tempo divulgare tutte le problematiche che ruotano intorno all’immenso patrimonio italiano.

La rivista lavora per trasmettere le novità della ricerca archeologica, per informare sulle mostre museali presenti sul territorio italiano, per divulgare le attività dei vari Gruppi Archeologici e prima fra tutti per sollecitare i lettori alla conoscenza e tutela dei Beni Culturali. Perché la forza di ogni rivista è data dai suoi lettori, perché è anche grazie a loro che Nuova Archeologia continuerà la sua missione: informare.

The Tree-Ring Society was founded in 1935 by A.E. Douglass and several archaeological colleagues at the third Tree-Ring Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Douglass and the new science of dendrochronology had recently won worldwide acclaim by providing precise dates for construction of many of the great pueblo villages of the southwestern US. The first issue of the TREE-RING BULLETIN was published the year before, and Douglass was elected as the first President of the new society dedicated to strengthening the fledging discipline of dendrochronology. During the following years, the Society maintained a very close relationship with the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona in Tucson, founded by Douglass in 1937.

Dendrochronology today consists of numerous laboratories and individual scientists that benefit from a professional association that serves as a conduit for the latest news of the discipline and serves to promote tree-ring research to the larger scientific community. The membership of the Society is reflective of the global nature of contemporary tree-ring research.

• Volume 71 (2015)
• • Issue 1 (January 2015)

About Project Mosul

Project Mosul is a volunteer action by the fellows of the Initial Trianing Network for Digital Cultural Heritage (www.itn-dch.eu), a Marie Curie Actions training project that is part of the Seventh Framework Programme. The fellows of the ITN-DCH are asking

Project Mosul: Call For Action

We are looking for volunteers to help virtually restore the Mosul Museum. This includes finding photos, processing data, contributing to the website and generally helping out with organising the effort to identify the museum artefacts. If you can help, drop us a line here, or e-mail us directly at projectmosul@itn-dch.net.
For an example of how crowd-sourced images can help restore artefacts, check out this example here
Thanks!

How can I help?

1. Upload Pictures
   We need pictures of the artefacts found in the Mosul Museum. These pictures allow us to digitally reconstruct the original artefacts, and can eventually aid in the restoration those artefacts. The more pictures the better, and as many angles and perspectives, even better still!
   If you have pictures to contribute, search for the artefact in the list of artefacts and simply edit that artefact, adding your photos to the collection.
   
2. Develop the Web Platform
   Know how to code in Ruby on Rails, Angular, or Go? Why not contribute to the web framework and help combat the destruction of ISIS with your coding skills. Visit the GitHub project page (https://github.com/neshmi/projectmosul) and check out the issues. Fork the repository, make a change and issue a pull request.
   
3. Mask Some Images
   Our results will be improved if we can mask the artefacts in the images. Help us by masking some of the images in Photoshop (we are working on developing a web platform for the masking), save the mask in an alpha channel. This takes time, so the more hands we have the easier this task wll be!
   
4. Get the word out
   Know someone who has visited Mosul? Let them know about the project. We need as many pictures from inside and outside the building, the more people we can reach the greater the possibilities are of virtual restoration.
   
5. Process an artefact!
   Do you know how to use automated photogrammetry to create three-dimensional models? Help us by downloading some of the photosets and processing the images.
   

Project Mosul: Live Chat

In order to facilitate the communication between volunteers and coordinators, we've setup a Slack team for Projec Mosul. To join, please go to https://projectmosul.github.io/ to sign up. You will get a confirmation e-mail and be able to join the Slack chat shortly. Hope to see you there!
We have also setup a Google Group, in case people don't want to deal with a live chat environment. You can access the group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/project-mosul.

Project Mosul: A Manifesto

The video circulated around the 26th of February, 2015 shows the horrific destruction of the Mosul Museum by ISIS Fighters. This is not the first time this museum has suffered during times of conflict, but the destruction is nearly absolute, and this time we can respond through the application of digital technologies to cultural heritage.
We assume that much of the museum’s contents were looted, and anything small enough to be easily removed will be appearing soon on the antiquities market. Anything too large to remove for sale, appears to have met a violent end at the hand of ISIS extremists. In both cases, it is possible to virtually recreate the lost items through the application of photogrammetry and crowdsourcing. Given enough photographs, digital or scans of analogues, it is possible to reconstruct the artefacts and create digital surrogates of those artefacts. This provides two immediate benefits: helping to identify looted items and recreating destroyed items.
We propose to coordinate a volunteer effort of experts and amateurs in the crowdsourcing of the necessary digital imagery and the creation of digital surrogates for the artefacts in the museum. We would like to work with the local management of the Mosul Museum as much as possible, as well as with experts familiar with the collection and material. All data generated from this project will be freely available to the public.
This project is a direct response to the senseless destruction of cultural heritage by extremists, not only ISIS, but to any group who uses heritage as leverage or political power. Instead, we want to bring heritage back to life through digital tools, giving the public access to any destroyed heritage, starting with the Mosul Museum.
We ask for your support in this endeavour, a project we are voluntarily doing and hope that it will make heritage accessible to all the public.

Sincerely the undersigned:


Marinos Ioannides, project coordinator
Matthew L. Vincent, Early Stage Researcher
Chance M. Coughenour, Early Stage Researcher

Mesopotamian commentaries represent the world’s oldest cohesive group of hermeneutic texts. Numbering nearly 900, the earliest date to the eighth century and the latest to ca. 100 BCE. The purpose of this website is to make the corpus available both to the scholarly community and a more general audience by providing background information on the genre, a searchable catalog, as well as photos, drawings, annotated editions, and translations of individual commentary tablets. For the first time the cuneiform commentaries, currently scattered over 21 museums around the globe, will be accessible on one platform.

The following pages offer detailed information on several aspects of the Mesopotamian commentary tradition. They also provide a concise guide to further reading and links to the Cuneiform Commentaries Project text editions.

• Home
  • About the Project
  • Citation Guidelines
  • How to use»
    • The CCP Numbers
• Introduction
  • History of the Genre
  • Typology of the Commentaries
  • Hermeneutic Techniques
  • Sources of the Commentaries
  • Technical terms and signs
  • Cities and Libraries
  • History of Research
• Bibliography
  • Complete Bibliography
  • Basic Bibliography
• Catalog of Commentaries
  • Literary»
    • Enūma eliš
    • Lugale
    • Ludlul
    • Theodicy
    • Literary Prayer to Marduk 2
    • Literary Others
  • Magic»
    • Udughul, Marduk’s address
    • Šurpu, Maqlû, Tummu bītu
    • Namburbi
    • Šaziga
    • Rituals
  • Divination»
    • Astrological. Enūma Anu Enlil
    • Astrological. Sîn ina tāmartīšu
    • Astrological Miscelanea
    • Extispicy (Bārûtu)
    • Terrestrial omens (Šumma Ālu)
    • Teratological Omens
    • Physiognomic
    • Menologies
    • Divination Other / Uncertain
  • Medical»
    • Diagnostic and prognostic
    • Therapeutic texts
    • Medical Other / Uncertain
  • Legal»
    • Laws of Hammurapi
  • Lexical»
    • Aa
    • Diri
    • Nabnītu
    • Harra
    • Lion's Blood
    • Grammatical texts
    • God lists
    • Lexical Other
  • Miscellanea»
    • Varia
    • Unknown
• Glossary

 James C. Wright, Director of ASCSA
“Work of the ASCSA during 2014” 
and
Dr. Panagiotis Karkanas, M. H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science,
“Archaeology, History and Science: a Microscopic Approach”

Welcome to the website of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song. This network was founded in the Spring of 2007 at the initiative of Ewen Bowie (University of Oxford) and André Lardinois (Radboud University Nijmegen). It is now run by André Lardinois and Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (Stanford University). Its main purpose is to share information and exchange ideas between scholars interested in the study of archaic and classical lyric, elegiac and iambic poetry. 

The website is hosted by the Department of Classics at the Radboud University Nijmegen and is also supported by the Department of Classics at Stanford University. The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO, has kindly provided funds both for the setting up of this website and for meetings of the network in the first three years. The network is also supported by the National Research School in Classical Studies in the Netherlands, OIKOS. 

For more information about the Network and its activities, see the Statement of Purpose.

• Loud, G., Khorsabad, Part 1: Excavations in the Palace and at a City Gate (Oriental Institute Publications 38), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936.
• Loud, G. and C. B. Altman, Khorsabad, Part 2: The Citadel and the Town (Oriental Institute Publications 40), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938.  
• Frankfort, Henri, Tell Asmar, Khafaje and Khorsabad: Second Preliminary Report of the Iraq Expedition.  (Oriental Institute Communication 16), Chicago: University of Chicago Press1933. 
• The Oriental Institute Khorsabad Relief Project

• Botta, Paul Emile; Flandin, Eugène. Monument de Ninive (Band 1): Architecture et sculpture, 1849
• Botta, Paul Emile; Flandin, Eugène. Monument de Ninive (Band 2): Architecture et sculpture, 1849
• Botta, Paul Emile; Flandin, Eugène. Monument de Ninive (Band 3): Inscriptions, 1849
• Botta, Paul Emile; Flandin, Eugène. Monument de Ninive (Band 4): Inscriptions, 1849
• Botta, Paul Emile; Flandin, Eugène. Monument de Ninive (Band 5): Text, 1850 

• Place, Victor: Ninive et l'Assyrie (Band 1) 1867
• Place, Victor: Ninive et l'Assyrie (Band 2) 1870
• Place, Victor: Ninive et l'Assyrie (Band 3) Tafeln 1867

FOOTWEAR IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Reasearcher André J. Veldmeijer has studied the footwear collection from ancient Egypt that is housed in the Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm. This catalogue presents all objects in detail.
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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COFFINS The Medelhavsmuseet's collection includes ancient Egyptian coffins covering two millennia, from the end of the First Intermediate Period down to the Ptolemaic Period. In this catalogue, compiled by researcher Aidan Dodson, you can more about these coffins.
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BEYOND THE SHOWCASES OF THE MEDELHAVSMUSEET

A team of archaeologists from the Freie Universität, Berlin, undertook an examination of the material from Hermann Junker's expedition to Merimde Beni Salama (West Delta, Egypt) held in the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm from the 27th October until 7th November 2014.Read a short report from their visit here (PDF-dokument, 1,9 MB).

This is the official books produced by Government of Palestinian (British Mandate) for the years of 1944-1945 which was prepared by the British Mandate for the United Nation Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) in 1946. These three volumes contain a wealth of information about Palestine until the end of 1946...

Volume I

• Chapter I: The Mandate
• Chapter II: Historical Summary of Principal Events Since British Occupation
• Period I 1917-1920
• Period II: 1920 - 1923
• Period III: A period of consolidation and comparative tranquility
• Period IV: September, 1928 - December 1932
• Period V: January, 1933 - March 1936
• Period VII: November, 1936-Ausgust, 1939
• Period VIII: September, 1939-October, 1942
• Period IX: November, 1942 - December, 1945
• Annexure I: The White Paper of June, 1922
• Annexure II: The White Paper of May, 1939
• Chapter III: Geographic Summary
• Chapter IV: The Central Government and Its Finances
• Chapter V: Local Government
• Chapter VI: Population
• A. The Increase in Population
• B. Geographical Distribution of the Population
• Chapter VII: Immigration
• Section 1: Immigration Legislation And Its Administration
• Section 2: Immigration Statistics
• Section 3: Acquisition of Palestinian Citizenship
• Section 4: Illegal Immigration
• Section 5: Refugees
• Chapter VIII: Land
• Section 1: Land Tenure in Palestine. Legislation and Type of Holding
• Section 2: Settlement of Title to Land
• Section 3: Land Registration
• Section 4: System of Land Taxation
• Section 5: The Public Lands of Palestine
• Section 6: State Domain and Re-Settlement of Jewish Ex-Servicemen
• Section 7: The Land Transfer Regulation
• Section 8: Administrative Problems Regarding to State Holdings
• Chapter IX: Agriculture
• Section 1: Agriculture Production.
• Section 2: Animal Health and Produce.
• Section 3: The Citrus Industry.
• Section 4: Measures Taken To Increase Agricultural Productivity
• Section 5: Agricultural Credit and Co-operative Societies
• Section 6: Investigations Affecting Development In the Negeb
• Section 7: Jewish Agricultural Settlements
• Section 8: Agricultural Advisory Bodies
• Chapter X: Irrigation and Drainage
• Chapter XI: Forestry and Soil Conservation
• Chapter XII: Fisheries
• Chapter XIII: Trade And Industry
• Section 1: Trade Agreements, The Customs Tariff and Excise Duties.
• Section 2: Foreign Trade of Palestine.
• Section 3: Trade With Middle Eastern Countries
• Section 4: A Survey of Industry

Volume II

• Chapter XIV: Finance
• Section 1: The Budget
• Section 2: The System of Taxation
• Section 3: Colonial Development Fund
• Section 4: Banking
• Section 5: Ownership of Capital
• Section 6: Relative Contribution of Arabs and Jewish Government Revenue
• Chapter XV: Law and Order
• (a) Prevention and Detection of Crime
• (b) Arms Traffic
• (c) Armed Bands and Illegal Organizations
• (d) The Cost of Public Security
• Chapter XVI: Social Services
• Section 1: Health Services
• Section 2: Description of Education Systems
• Section 3: Jewish Education And Cultural Activities
• Section 4: Social Welfare
• Section 5: The Standard of Living of Palestinian Arabs
• Chapter XVII: Labour And Wages
• Section 1: Employment and Unemployment
• Section 2: Wages and Earnings
• Section 3: The Administration of Labor Matters
• Section 4: Legislation
• Section 5: International Convention Affecting Labor
• Section 6: Labor Organizations
• Section 7: The Re-Settlement of Ex-Service Men and Women
• Section 8: The Employment of Arab And Jewish Labor By Government
• Chapter XVIII: Town Planning and The Problem of Housing
• Section 1: Town Planning And Building Control
• Section 2: Present Housing Needs
• Section 3: Measures Taken To Remedy The Position in Housing
• Section 4: The Cost of Building
• Section 5: The Supply of Building Material
• Chapter XIX: Food And Clothing
• Section 1: General Survey of The Present Food Situation
• Section 2: Subsidization Policy
• Section 3: Human Nutrition
• Section 4: Regards to The Provision of Clothing and Essential Household Textiles
• Chapter XX: Communication
• Section 1: Railways
• Section 2: Ports
• Haifa Port
• Jaffa Port
• Section 3: The Road System
• Section 4: Road Transport
• Section 5: Post Office Service
• Chapter XXI: The Press
• Section 1: Control of The Press
• Section 2: The Public Information Office
• Chapter XXII: Community And Religious Affairs
• Section 1: Christian Community And Christian Holy Places
• Section 2: The Supreme Moslem Council and The Waqf Commission
• Section 3: The Zionist Organization and The Jewish Agency
• Section 4: Statuary Jewish Community
• Section 5: Agudat Israel
• Section 6: Other Religious Communities
• Section 7: Official Holiday
• Section 8: The Official Languages
• Section 9: Two Community Problems
• Chapter XXIII: Political Parties
• Section 1: The Arab Political Parties
• Section 2: The Jewish Political Parties
• Chapter XXIV: International Agreements, Conventions, And Treats
• Chapter XXV: Concessions and Mining
• Section 1: Concessions
• Section 2: Mining And Oil Mining
• Chapter XXVI: War Economic Measures
• Section 1: The War Supply Board
• Section 2: The War Economic Advisory Council
• Section 3: The Custodian of Enemy Property
• Section 4: War Time Economic Control
• Appendix A: Orders in Council Applicable to Palestine
• Appendix B: Advisory And Statuary Official Bodies
• Appendix C: Glossary
• Index

Volume III: Supplement to The Survey of Palestine

• The Central Government And Its Finances
• Local Government: Supplementing Volume V
• Population: Supplementing Volume I, Chapter VI
• Immigration: Supplementing Volume I, Chapter VII
• Illegal Immigration
• Land: Supplementing Volume I
• Agriculture: Supplementing Volume I, Chapter IX
• Forestry And Soil Conservation: Supplementing Volume I
• Trade And Industry: Supplementing Volume I, Chapter XIII
• Finance: Supplementing Volume II, Chapter XIV
• Town Planning And The Problem of Housing: Supplementing
• Food And Clothing: Supplementing Volume II, Chapter XIX
• Communication: Supplementing Volume II, Chapter XX
• Community And Religious: Supplementing Volume II, Chapter XXII
• Political Parties: Supplementing Volume II, Chapter XXIII

An onomastic network on the basis of genealogical relations 

Networks are ways to map connections between elements, in this case names. Each name is represented by a node (the dots), and each connection is shown as an edge (or link or tie: the lines between the dots).

The nature of the connection can be chosen freely. In this network there is a link between name A and name B if a person with name A chose name B for his or her son or daughter. If more people with name A have opted for name B, the link will be tighter (and the line visualising it thicker). The networks of the more popular names resemble 'spaghetti monsters', as they are connected with many other names. To see where the name itself is, hover over the transcription in the information pane to the right of the window.

There are many network measures to describe the features of the network as a whole, as well as those of individual nodes and ties: betweenness centrality, Eigenvector, density, modularity, ... Here we have limited the information to degree centrality, which is how many other names a name is connected to. Since the network is directed (meaning that there is a direction from parent to child), we distinguish between out-degree (how many different names are chosen by parents with that name) and in-degree (how many different names are attested for the parents of children with that name).
E.g. When the name Thotortaios has a degree of 184, this means he occurs in 184 different parent - child pairs. The out-degree of 85 means that Thotortaios is the father's name of children with 85 different names. The name's in-degree of 99 implies that 99 different fathers' or mothers' names are attested. 

The names are coloured according to their linguistic origin, as follows:Blue = Egyptian
Green = Greek
Yellow = hybrid (combining elements from two or more languages and traditions)
Orange = Latin
Turquoise = Semitic
Pink = Other (e.g. Macedonian, Thracian, Gallic, ...)
Grey = Unknown


In principle the shape of the network is irrelevant: as long as nodes are connected, they can be placed anywhere. But as humans have difficulty seeing the 69,860 edges between the 17,182 nodes (names in this case), programs like Gephi can adapt the visual representation of the network according to specific layout algoritms. In this case we have used 'ForceAtlas 2". The 47-second video below shows this process, which in fact took the MacBook Air over 22 minutes.

W. G. Lambert (1926-2011) was an Assyriologist who spent much of his research time transliterating and copying cuneiform tablets in museums, especially the British Museum. His Nachlass included eight notebooks filled with handwritten transliterations of Babylonian and Assyrian texts. The notebooks contain more than five thousand transliterations, spread over nearly fifteen hundred pages. They are an astonishing record of sustained first-hand engagement with cuneiform tablets.

The pages of these eight notebooks have been numbered, scanned and indexed by Lambert's academic executor. They are placed online at ORACC as an open-access resource. It should be borne in mind that the transliterations are first drafts. Lambert invited a few colleagues to browse his notebooks during his lifetime but he did not write them for widespread distribution. The transliterations are therefore not to be taken as definitive, nor should any inaccuracies therein be held against their author.

Lambert's notebooks are made available here so that present and future scholars can use them to advantage in their own research. It is hoped that users of the notebooks will be encouraged by his example not to rely unhesitatingly on the work of a colleague but to visit museums and read cuneiform tablets at first hand. Should it be necessary nevertheless to quote the notebooks' contents, the recommended style is "Lambert Folio" followed by page number, e.g. K 9208 (Lambert Folio 9578).

Downloadable Files

Notebook 1 part 1: Lambert Folios 8897-8956Notebook 1 part 2: Lambert Folios 8957-9029Notebook 2: Lambert Folios 9034-9124Notebook 3: Lambert Folios 9128-9379Notebook 4: Lambert Folios 9393-9545Notebook 5 part 1: Lambert Folios 9546-9676Notebook 5 part 2: Lambert Folios 9677-9804Notebook 6 part 1: Lambert Folios 9807-9939Notebook 6 part 2: Lambert Folios 9940-10089Notebook 7 part 1: Lambert Folios 10090-10208Notebook 7 part 2: Lambert Folios 10209-10330Berlin notebook: Lambert Folios 18381-18401Index: Lambert Notebook Index