Proto-Elamite Period
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Recent papers in Proto-Elamite Period
MDP 17, 112, like most proto-Elamite tablets, was first published in the early part of the twentieth century when understanding of both the writing system and the society that produced it were still relatively poor. Recent advances in the... more
After three years of collaboration and preparation: the Iran exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn will open next Thursday (April 13) - presenting Iranian archaeology from early sedentism to the rise of the Achaemenids. Many thanks... more
El nacimiento de la civilización elarnita para el mundo occidental se produjo a finales del siglo diecinueve. Si bien es verdad que el nombre de Elam ya se conocía por la Biblia, que lo menciona en varios pasajes', no es hasta el año 1874... more
ABSTRACT: This lecture continues from lecture 6 (which focused on Early Dynastic Sumer & Akkad), and examines various geographic and cultural areas beyond southern Mesopotamia, ca, 2,900 - 2,350 BC. Brief overviews are provided starting... more
In the Near East, the most ancient writing systems currently known in the world appeared at the end of the 4th millennium BC: the proto-cuneiform writing in Southern Mesopotamia and the proto-elamite writing on the Iranian Plateau. Both... more
SUMMARY This thesis shall identify the date origin of the composite bow within Mesopotamia and Elam. and both identify and quantify the design factors which lead to increased performance possible with composite construction. To accomplish... more
Starting off from the so-called Guennol Lioness, an important early artwork first published over seventy years ago, the article presents historical and iconographic evidence for the presence of the maneless Asiatic lion in southwestern... more
This paper presents a recurrent architectural pattern, unnoticed up to now, observed in the late fourth millennium BC strata at the Iranian sites of Susa, Tal-i Malyan and Godin Tepe. On the base of this evidence, the article proposes... more
Twelve proto-Elamite tablets and fragments were found during the 2006-07 excavation at Tape Sofalin in the northernCentral Iranian Plateau. The form and content of these tablets is entirely consistent with that of the standard and late... more
Beginning of speech! - Introduction (English version)
Le premier grand cycle d’urbanisation a débuté dans cette région du monde avec le processus de néolithisation lors du 8ème millénaire av. J.-C. avant de prendre fin au début du 2ème millénaire av. J.-C. par la déprise de l’occupation... more
What do prehistoric stone vessels have in common with woven baskets, clay bins, warehouses, ceramic pots, jar stoppers or clay sealings? At the very least, those objects usually studied separately all participate in a ubiquitous but... more
The virtual (online, October 19-23) and in-person (Boston, November 16-19)
I present here a new version of the history of writing on the Iranian Plateau, dealing notably with Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite documents.
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In this paper we introduce a new online project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for the digitization, interaction, dissemination, annotation and decipherment of the ancient script known as proto-Elamite, used... more
The appearance of animal images on the archaeological remains is always considered as an evidence to determine their natural living and their role in human's cultural and ritual life. Animal imagery is found in every medium of art in the... more
Trough this article we will try to look closely to the iconographyc program which the neoasirian soverign Sennacherib wanted to develop in its “Palace without Rival”. The many reliefs which Layard exposed, have shown not only a vivid... more
In the summer of 2017, renewed fieldwork was undertaken at Tappeh Sofalin in the Varamin Plain. A total of 20 samples for absolute dating were collected during this season, several of which have been analyzed. We present this new evidence... more