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Published Dec 2024

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Ancient Near East; Animals; Sutton Hoo; Fauna; Mesopotamia

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Ash-sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East 8

Ash-sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East No 8 1-2, 2024

Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies

Edited by Laura Battini

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Ash-sharq is a journal devoted to short articles on the archaeology, history and society of the Ancient Near East.

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Contents

Vol 8 No 1, 2024

Sutton Hoo, St. Sergius and the Sasanians: Anglo-Saxon finds re-interpreted from an eastern perspective – St John Simpson

Têtes coupées : une primauté éblaïte ? Considérations et autres remarques sur la frise à incrustations d’Ebla – Rita Dolce

Quelques notes sur l’architecture mésopotamienne des IIe et Ier millénaires av. J.-C. : l’ensemble de réception des palais – Laura Battini

Unpublished examples of lead miniature vessels from Turkey – Ergün Laflı and Maurizio Buora


Vol 8 No 2, 2024

Introduction to Animal Symbolism and Representations in Western AsiaLaura Battini

Faunal deposits and displays in the early Neolithic, new evidence from Ganj Dareh, central Zagros – Pernille Bangsgaard, Lisa Yeomans, Hojjat Darabi and Tobias Richter

The bear in ancient Mesopotamia – Lorenzo Verderame

The Presence and Roles of Cats, Monkeys, and Donkeys at Deir el-Medina, Egypt: A Comparison of Representational and Textual Evidence – Krystal V.L. Pierce

Animal Depictions in Philistia and Judah during the Iron Age – David Ben-Shlomo

The Arc of the Horn Part II: Sacral powers of the ibex on the seals of Persepolis – Margaret Cool Root

About the Author

Laura Battini is an archaeologist specialised in the Ancient Near East. She is currently a researcher at the French National Centre of Scientific Research (Laboratory PROCLAC, UMR 7192, directed by Thomas Römer). Laura created a new journal for the Ancient Near East (Ash sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East, Archaeopress), and is the editor of the archaeological series Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology.

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'The latest issue of Ash-sharq includes a particularly thought-provoking contribution by Dr St John Simpson, senior curator to the British Museum's Department of the Middle East, which focuses on artefacts from Anglo-Saxon England... Other papers in this eclectic collection comprise a well-illustrated discusssion of 24 previously unpublished lead miniature vessels from various museum collections in Turkey (by Ergun Lafli and Murizio Buora), and transcripts of two lectures in French, one by Rita Dolce, about the 'Victory Panel' from Elba, the other by Laura Battini, exploring the architectural context of the palace of Adad-Nitari I.' – Carly Hilts (2025): Current Archaeology, Issue 418