Posted on 02/01/2007 8:39:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Inscribed on the small, pillow-shaped tablet is a 3,000-year-old warning to Idanda, king of Qatna, from the Hittite general Hanutti, telling him to prepare for war. A small Bronze Age Syrian city-state, Qatna was once under Hittite control, but had been conquered by the Mitanni people from the north. The clay tablet, like others found with it, was fired twice--once just after it was written, to preserve it, and again when the ancient city was sacked and burned to the ground in 1340 B.C. by the Hittites, who ruled an empire that stretched from northern Turkey to Mesopotamia and Syria... [A]rchaeologist Daniele Morandi Bonacossi of the University of Udine in Italy... is part of a multinational team that excavated the remains of the royal palace of Qatna, where they found intact burial chambers and, in a stone corridor leading to the tombs, a collection of 73 tablets... inscribed in script that is a hybrid of Akkadian, a Mesopotamian language, and Hurrian, which was probably the original language of what is today eastern Turkey and the Caucasus.
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Among the ruins of Qatna's royal palace, archaeologists found a collection of tablets that documents military correspondence between the king of Qatna and other local rulers. (©Pasquale Sorrentino)
The multinational team also found an undisturbed set of burial chambers. (©Konrad Wita)
88 Cuneiform Inscriptions Discovered At Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat
The Tehran Times | 7-27-2006
Posted on 07/27/2006 2:28:05 PM EDT by blam
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Second Iron Age Cuneiform Inscription Discovered in Rabat Tepe
Cultural Heritage News Agency | Monday, December 11, 2006 | Maryam Tabeshian
Posted on 12/11/2006 4:04:04 PM EST by SunkenCiv
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'They Show No Respect for Their Caesars'
Arutz Sheva | 12-18-06 | Gerald A. Honigman
Posted on 12/18/2006 8:49:10 PM EST by SJackson
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The first season of excavation in Rabat Tepe led to the discovery of winged goddesses and a naked winged goddess in the region which have attracted the attention of domestic and foreign experts and media. Such winged goddesses were always thought to have belonged to Greece... Another question experts are faced with is using colors during the first Iron Age in this historical site. Besides it is not known yet what the winged goddesses were the symbols of in this region 3000 years ago... Musasir was particularly important during the first half of the first millennium before the Christ and is known primarily from reliefs and inscriptions obtained during the reign of the Assyrian king Sargon the second, who captured it in 714 B.C. According to the inscriptions, Sargon first plundered the palace and storerooms that belonged to Urzana, the king of Musasir, and then seized the even richer contents of the temple of Haldi, the God of the ancient kingdom of Urartu.
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