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.
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.
In the early 1990s the two fragments of black stone making up the Tower of Babylon stele with pictures of the ziggurat in Babylon and the king Nebuchadnezzar II were found in the large open trench ...from the German excavations of Amran in 1900. The findspot was about 20 m north of the Esagil temple in Babylon, but the level where it was discovered is not Neo-Babylonian but later, possibly Parthian. The archaeological and historical background of the stele is discussed, and the image of the Ziggurat on the stele is considered. After 28 years in the Schøyen Collection Oslo, the stele is now in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.
