A number of Egyptian women appear in a private archive from the Assyrian city of Assur as investors in trade enterprises. This brief study focuses on these women, their economic dealings, and on ...their relative social positions as indicated by the archive. The evidence shows that Egyptian women could enjoy a relative legal-economic freedom also in their Assyrian exile.
This article is an in-depth study of two cylinders seals with the goddess in a nimbus from the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem. It is commonly accepted that the goddess in a nimbus is Ishtar (Inana in ...Sumerian), the goddess of love and war. Although Ishtar is one of the best-attested motifs on ancient Mesopotamian seals, the appearance of the goddess surrounded by rays of light—reminiscent of Roman Catholic imagery of the Virgin Mary surrounded by sunshine—is limited primarily to the period between the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. This article offers an insight into the iconography of this mysterious goddess, as well as a glimpse of a small portion of the Bible Lands Museum Seal Collection, probably one of the largest such collections in the world.
In Context Finkel, Irving; Simpson, St John
2020
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'In Context: the Reade Festschrift' is a collection of invited and peer-reviewed essays by friends and colleagues of Julian Edgeworth Reade, sometime Mesopotamia curator at the British Museum from ...1975 to 2000. Here is fresh work from which any reader can gain a new appreciation of the importance of the ancient Near East.
