Ash-sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East No 9 1-2 2025

Contents

Vol 9 No. 1, 2025

Reassessment of Northern Kuwait Bay’s Dry-Stone Tombs: Insights into Architecture, Burial Practices, and Socio-Economic Dynamics – Tara Steimer-Herbet, Tobias Hofstetter, Imane Achouche, Łukasz Rutkowski, Alessandra Varalli, Claudine Abegg, Sultan al-Duweish and Marie Besse

New Light on and Scientific Analysis of a Late Neo-Elamite Copper Alloy Fitting Reportedly from Tang-i Sarvak in the Bakhtiyari Highlands of Southwest Iran – St J. Simpson and A.R. Mongiatti

The Ottoman Period in Damascus (18th Century). The al-Sibāʻī Mansion: Surviving Evidence of a House with Three Courtyards – Imane Fayyad

Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Religious Objects from Cilicia (Southern Turkey) – Ergün Laflı, Maurizio Buora and Alev Çetingöz

Ishtar, her ‘strength’ and her iconographic proposal – Valeria degli Abbati

Babylon in comics – Laura Battini

 

Vol 9 No. 2, 2025

Glyptic depictions of Tyche in Asia Minor – Ergün Laflı and Martin Henig

The Halaf period in western Iran: New insights into the Late Neolithic-Early Chalcolithic J ware of the Mahidasht 1975-78 survey project – Sirvan Mohammadi Ghasrian, Om Albanin Ghafoori, Morteza Zamani Dadaneh

Mothers in Presargonic Ĝirsu – Felix Rauchhaus

Borderland Histories: The Archaeological Survey of Koya/Koisanjaq (2016-2022): From Local Chronology to Imperial Periodization: The Koya Region, Paleolithic to Parthian – Cinzia Pappi, Costanza Coppini, Nyaz Azeez Awmar

Exit ‘Presentation Scene’, Fiat ‘Temple Entrance Scene’. How to Rethink this Emblematic Scene of the First Half of the Second Millennium BC in Light of Textual Records and the Theory of Emotions – Laura Battini

Listening to the Past: Archaeology, Oral History, and Memoryscapes in the Koya Region (Iraq) – Cinzia Pappi, Nyaz Azeez Awmar

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.