Babylone achemenide est en general jugee peu importante au regard de la cite neo-babylonienne. Pourtant les archives privees temoignent l’activite cette ville, meme que nombreuses tombes epoque, un tresor d’objets d’argent, des figurines, sceaux. Les signes l’interet rois perses eux-memes pour ont ete tres sous-estimes. A part fragments d’une stele reprenant le relief d Bisutun et Perserbau, pe...

Dirven’s contribution deals with an episode narrated in the Diaries which has not obtained deserved attention from scholars and whose implications concerning religious life of late Babylon are extremely interesting. In 133 BC a boatman entered claimed to be messenger goddess Nanāya. He began preach street was welcome by enthusiast crowd citizens. Finally, his popularity open conflict Temples’ a...

The Arabic language is characterized by the existence of many different colloquial varieties that significantly differ from the standard Arabic form. In this paper, we propose a state-of-the-art speech recognition system for Levantine Colloquial Arabic (LCA). A fully continuous context dependent acoustic model was trained using 50 hours of speech from the BBN DARPA Babylon corpus. Pronunciation...