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Abstract Although interest in the study of emotions in Assyriology is recent, the subject is attracting more and more Assyriologists. Anthropology, sociology, linguistic studies and studies of other historical periods have shown that the expression of …

Abstract Just a little under forty years after the first Old Babylonian archival documents were published, the project of a comprehensive dictionary of Akkadian was initiated by James Henri Breasted in Chicago. Over the course of ninety years (1921-2011), …

Abstract The site of Chagar Bazar, tell located in North-East Syria, in the center of the Habur triangle, in the Upper Jezira region, is well known from the excavations carried out by Sir Max Mallowan between 1935 and 1937. It was on this occasion that …

Abstract In 1978, H. Weiss and Yale University began excavating Tell Leilan, a large walled oval site located in northeastern Syria, in the Habur plain, some 25 km south of Qamichli, identified with ancient Šehna/Šubat-Enlil. Excavations uncovered remains …

Abstract Meat supply and consumption are generally documented in texts dealing with " live meat " : herd management, contributions or expenditure of animals. The archives administrative archives found in Mari's palace provide a rare, small corpus of texts …

Abstract Auditing ( nipiṣ nikkassī ) was the main procedure for controlling the activities of any Paleo-Babylonian manager : a balance sheet was drawn up between, on the one hand, the goods he received ( namḫartum ) and, on the other, his expenses (ṣītum …

Abstract A great part of the Old Babylonian archival texts kept nowadays in museum collections come from illicit excavations, and therefore lack archaeological and archival context. By studying these texts, and specifically the persons playing an active …

Abstract Excavations of the ancient city of Terqa have yielded a modest quantity of texts, compared with its neighbor Mari, but they are spread over a slightly wider chronological arc, from the Shakkanakku period to the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, …

Abstract It is well known that, in the Old Babylonian Period, a cuneiform tablet inscribed with a juridical text was often encased in a clay envelope and the tablet's text was reproduced on the envelope's surface. This practice was intended to prevent …

Abstract When Samsi-Addu succeeded in creating a vast empire in Upper Mesopotamia, he accompanied his military conquests with cultural measures. The construction of temples in several cities was perhaps the most visible of these. Administration was also …

Abstract This first paper will present the history of publications of Paleo-Babylonian archival texts from 1882 to the present : no fewer than 35 192 texts have now been published in full, with a pace that accelerated considerably after the Second World …