This paper is a study of descriptions foreign conquest the Mesopotamian centre in two Sumerian–Akkadian bilingual texts concerning Tukulti-Ninurta I and Nebuchadnezzar I. Both present these deviant spaces resulting from conquests terms peripheralization centre. Having established similarities presentation topoi texts, then analyses different contexts which are placed to explore how their signif...

This article proposes an interpretive framework of paradox and wonder as a new approach to understanding the affective properties social consequences miniature objects in archaeological record. Building upon current scholarly theories miniatures inherently intimate, this accounts for how small-scale artworks were also designed deliberately manufactured elude user attempts at full sensory access...


 Sonja Plischke’s Die Seleukiden und Iran is an attempt to study Seleucid empire building in Iran. In view of the fact that indigenous written sources from are practically absent, Plischke decided include Babylonia this work, since cuneiform evidence region fairly abundant. She detects some general tendencies—such as religious policy and wish connect different parts empire—supported by a ...