Abstract Published here for the first time, Neo-Babylonian tablet BM.35434 sheds new light on transmission history of Sumero-Akkadian balaĝ-prayer a-gal-gal buru₁₄ su-su || butuqtu muṭebbât ebūri “Flood that drowns harvest” dedicated to Nergal, god pestilence and war. Due its exceptional colophon, makes an interesting case study in first-millennium scribal practices context ritual lamenting Eme...

for their help and suggestions. Special thanks go to J. Araujo for his mathematical suggestions. I would also like to acknowledge the support of the Centre of Algebra at the University of Lisbon, and of EPSRC grant number GR/S/56085/01. Colophon If you use the MONOID package, I would really appreciate it if you would let me know by sending me an email to [email protected]. If you notice that th...

We here describe a new Early Cretaceous (early Albian) eutherian mammal, Sasayamamylos kawaii gen. et sp. nov., from the 'Lower Formation' of the Sasayama Group, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Sasayamamylos kawaii is characterized by a robust dentary, a distinct angle on the ventral margin of the dentary at the posterior end of the mandibular symphysis, a lower dental formula of 3-4 : 1 : 4 : 3, a ro...

ascribed in the later of its two MSS. to Bartolomeo de Varignana and accepted as such by Dr. Siraisi (cf. also Isis 1977, pp. 33-39). In the list taken from its preface and printed as Appendix 2, the commentator describes Galen's method of dividing up the art of medicine, illustrating it with examples of individual treatises. Since he expressly notes where a tract no longer survives, it is fair...

persian-hebrew texts are written in hebrew orthography. their records go back to the period before the essential books about drugs’ nature, the first persian text in arabic orthography by abu mansour mowaffaq herawi which was inscribed by assadi tousi in 447 a.h. therefore, it seems very important to scrutinize such texts for the study of persian language. one of the most important samples of p...