The Dogs of Ninkilim, part two: Babylonian rituals to counter field pests

This article presents editions of all the extant Babylonian incantations against field pests. The sources date to the first millennium BC and many have not been published before. They are mostly tablets of the Neo-Assyrian period, from Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh, but the corpus also contains some Neo-Babylonian fragments from Nineveh, as well as a tablet from Sultantepe (ancient Huzirina) and two Late Babylonian tablets from southern Mesopotamia. Some of the pieces certainly belong to a series called in antiquity Zu-buru-dabbeda “To Seize the Locust-Tooth”, a compendium of incantations and rituals designed to combat by magic means the destruction of crops by locusts, insect larvae and other pests; other pieces are parts of related and similar texts. Some of the rituals require the observation of the Goat-star rising above the eastern horizon, which suggests they were performed at night as a precautionary measure during the winter months of the barley-growing season

New Investigations in the Environment, History and Archaeology of the Iraqi Hilly Flanks: Shahrizor Survey Project 2009-2011

Recent palaeoenvironmental, historical, and archaeological investigations, primarily consisting of site reconnaissance, in the Shahrizor region within the province of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan are bringing to light new information on the region’s social and socio-ecological development. This paper summarises two seasons of work by researchers from German, British, Dutch, and Iraqi-Kurdish institutions working in the survey region. Palaeoenvironmental data have determined that during the Pleistocene many terraces developed which came to be occupied by a number of the larger tell sites in the Holocene. In the sedimentary record, climatic and anthropogenic patterns are noticeable, and alluviation has affected the recovery of archaeological remains through site burial in places. Historical data show the Shahrizor shifting between periods of independence, either occupied by one regional state or several smaller entities, and periods that saw the plain’s incorporation within large empires, often in a border position. New archaeological investigations have provided insight into the importance of the region as a transit centre between Western Iran and northern and southern Mesopotamia, with clear material culture links recovered. Variations between periods’ settlement patterns and occupations are also beginning to emerge

Fin de la communication sur la chronologie de la première dynastie babylonienne

Thureau-Dangin François. Fin de la communication sur la chronologie de la première dynastie babylonienne. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 71ᵉ année, N. 4, 1927. p. 327

Annonce de la découverte de vestiges d'une civilisation préhistorique dans la vallée de l'Indus

Thureau-Dangin François. Annonce de la découverte de vestiges d'une civilisation préhistorique dans la vallée de l'Indus. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 68ᵉ année, N. 4, 1924. pp. 279-280

Statue chaldéenne de Lou-Pad (planche hors texte)

Thureau-Dangin François. Statue chaldéenne de Lou-Pad (planche hors texte). In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 52ᵉ année, N. 3, 1908. p. 204

Vocabulaire bilingue découvert à Ras Shamra en 1930

Thureau-Dangin François. Vocabulaire bilingue découvert à Ras Shamra en 1930. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 75ᵉ année, N. 2, 1931. p. 131

L'origine de l'algèbre

Thureau-Dangin François. L'origine de l'algèbre. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 84ᵉ année, N. 4, 1940. pp. 292-318

Première partie de la communication sur la chronologie de la première dynastie babylonienne

Thureau-Dangin François. Première partie de la communication sur la chronologie de la première dynastie babylonienne. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 71ᵉ année, N. 4, 1927. p. 325

Tell Ahmar

Thureau-Dangin François. Tell Ahmar. In: Syria. Tome 10 fascicule 3, 1929. pp. 185-205

Vocabulaires de Ras-Shamra

Thureau-Dangin François. Vocabulaires de Ras-Shamra. In: Syria. Tome 12 fascicule 3, 1931. pp. 225-266