Ash-sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East No 3 1-2, 2019

Contents

Vol 3 No 1 2019

Unequal in Life but Equal in Death? The Mortuary Evidence for Social Stratification in the Ubaid Polities – Konstantinos Kopanias and Giota Barlagianni

Tell Shemshara 2018: Emerging and Floating Evidence – J. Eidem, M. Merlino, E. Mariotti and R. Kalim Salih

Investigating Late Chalcolithic Period settlement on the Marivan Plain, western Iran. First insights from the Marivan Plain Survey project – Morteza Zamani Dadane, Sirvan Mohammadi Ghasrian and Tim Boaz Bruun Skuldbøl

Animals in War in Historical Mesopotamia – Laura Battini

Luxuries Lost: Wood and Other Ligneous Materials for Interior and Architectural Decoration in Ancient Mesopotamia (Chalcolithic and Bronze Age) – Philippe Quenet

Temple of Amrith / The Fifth Field Season of Archaeological Excavations in 1960 ‘Field Written Notes’ by Nassib Saliby – Michel Al-Maqdissi

A Preliminary Analysis of the Toponymy in and around the So-Called Jerusalem Corridor – Ran Zadok

 

Vol 3 No 2 2019

Third Millennium Figurative Paintings in the Euphrates Valley. A Reassessment – Astrid Nunn

Damascene Mamluk Extramuros Religious Heritage (14th and 15th Centuries): The Case of the as-Sanğaqdāre Mosque – Imane Fayyad

Tepe Gryashan. Late Chalcolithic Pottery from the Region of Sanandaj, Western Iran – S. Mohammadi Ghasrian, M. Zamani Dadaneh, C. Colantoni and T. Boaz Bruun Skuldbøl

Where Eagles Fly: Ancient Mountain Defences East of Rania – Emanuele Mariotti and Matteo Merlino

Light as Experience: Rethinking Neo-Assyrian Reliefs in their Architectural Context – Laura Battini

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.