IIMAS – The International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies

01/27/2025

⭕️ The research group of the Cybernetica Mesopotamica project meets for the Seminar "Beola 6"

The research group of the Cybernetica Mesopotamica project met on September 12-14, 2024, in Beola (Piedmont, Italy), in person or remotely, to evaluate the progress of the work and discuss technical problems and the best means to overcome them.

The meeting was very fruitful in laying the foundations for the work of the last year of the project funded by the "Balzan Award". More information can be found on the dedicated page on the Cybernetica Mesopotamica project website.

ℹ️ https://www.avasa.it/en/events/events.htm
ℹ️ https://www.avasa.it/en/events/events-list.htm
ℹ️ http://urkesh.org/
ℹ️ http://www.iimas.org/
ℹ️ https://cyb-mes.net/
ℹ️ https://twitter.com/IIMAS1973
ℹ️ https://www.facebook.com/IIMAS73
ℹ️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/iimas73/
ℹ️ https://www.facebook.com/Archaeology.in.Syria.Tell.Mozan
ℹ️ www.archaeologyin.org/syria-mozan/

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01/23/2025

⭕️ Our collaborator Arwa Kharobi participates in the "30th Congress of the European Association of Archaeologists" in Rome

Our collaborator Arwa Kharobi participated, between 28 and 31 August 2024, in Rome, at the "### Conference of the European Association of Archaeologists", presenting a paper (co-authored with Giorgio Buccellati, Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati and Federico Buccellati) entitled "Animal Associations in Human burials: Insights from Tell Mozan (Middle Bronze Age, Northern Syria)".

An abstract of her paper is available at this link.

ℹ️ https://www.avasa.it/en/events/events.htm
ℹ️ https://www.avasa.it/en/events/events-list.htm
ℹ️ http://urkesh.org/
ℹ️ http://www.iimas.org/
ℹ️ https://cyb-mes.net/
ℹ️ https://twitter.com/IIMAS1973
ℹ️ https://www.facebook.com/IIMAS73
ℹ️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/iimas73/
ℹ️ https://www.facebook.com/Archaeology.in.Syria.Tell.Mozan
ℹ️ www.archaeologyin.org/syria-mozan/

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01/21/2025

⭕️ Professor Giorgio Buccellati receives the "Beato Contardo Ferrini Prize" in Pavia

On October 16, 2024, in Pavia, hosted by the Franciscan friars at Santuario di S. Maria Incoronata di Canepanova, Professor Giorgio Buccellati received the "Beato Contardo Ferrini Award", organized every year by the Ordine Francescano Secolare del Piemonte e Valle d'Aosta and sponsored by the "Centro Italiano di Egittologia Giuseppe Botti".

At the end of the award ceremony, Prof. Buccellati presented a lectio magistralis entitled: Alle origini del diritto ovvero giustizia e normativa.

Following the ceremony, Prof. Buccellati also granted a short interview available at this link.

ℹ️ https://www.avasa.it/en/events/events.htm
ℹ️ https://www.avasa.it/en/events/events-list.htm
ℹ️ http://urkesh.org/
ℹ️ http://www.iimas.org/
ℹ️ https://cyb-mes.net/
ℹ️ https://twitter.com/IIMAS1973
ℹ️ https://www.facebook.com/IIMAS73
ℹ️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/iimas73/
ℹ️ https://www.facebook.com/Archaeology.in.Syria.Tell.Mozan
ℹ️ www.archaeologyin.org/syria-mozan/

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01/11/2025

⭕️ Inventing Writing in South-west Asia
🌍✨ The leap from pre-writing symbols to actual writing marks a pivotal moment in human history! Research by the INSCRIBE team at the University of Bologna reveals how late prehistoric imagery evolved into early proto-cuneiform. Discover connections between cylinder seals & Uruk’s groundbreaking communication! 📝🔍

More details in the link(s)
ℹ️ https://anetoday.org/writing-southwest-asia/
ℹ️ www.archaeologyin.org

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09/30/2024

⭕️ This is an image of a woman – peering at us, as if to establish eye contact, four thousand years hence.
And we look back, in turn, peering at her world.
Through our project, we aim to bring her back more fully.
Because there is a context to her face.
It is the context defined by the moment when, and the spot where, we first found her.
The context of the city where she was fashioned.
The context of the larger culture that shaped the tastes, beliefs, ambitions of the people who held her gaze.
It is this context we seek to establish, these many levels of a life once lived, which we now aim to recover and to re-embed in our own lives.

Read more about our project in Tell Mozan, ancient Urkesh, in the link(s)
ℹ️ https://urkesh.org/main/main0.htm

ℹ️ https://www.avasa.it/en/events/events-list.htm
ℹ️ http://urkesh.org/
ℹ️ http://www.iimas.org/
ℹ️ https://cyb-mes.net/
ℹ️ https://twitter.com/IIMAS1973
ℹ️ https://www.facebook.com/IIMAS73
ℹ️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/iimas73/
ℹ️ https://www.facebook.com/Archaeology.in.Syria.Tell.Mozan
ℹ️ www.archaeologyin.org/syria-mozan/

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09/27/2024

⭕️ Music in the Urkesh palace

A seal of queen Uqnitum gives us a glimpse of a musical performance such as would have taken place in the royal palace of Urkesh.

A singer and a lyre player face each other. Seated on a stool, they are shown in the act of performing for the listening pleasure of the queen and her entourage.

The sound you hear is a modern rendering of a Hurrian hymn such as you might have heard had you been part of the queen's entourage.

More details in the link(s)
ℹ️ https://urkesh.org/urkeshpublic/music.htm

ℹ️ https://www.avasa.it/en/events/events-list.htm
ℹ️ http://urkesh.org/
ℹ️ http://www.iimas.org/
ℹ️ https://cyb-mes.net/
ℹ️ https://twitter.com/IIMAS1973
ℹ️ https://www.facebook.com/IIMAS73
ℹ️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/iimas73/
ℹ️ https://www.facebook.com/Archaeology.in.Syria.Tell.Mozan
ℹ️ www.archaeologyin.org/syria-mozan/

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09/23/2024

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09/23/2024

⭕️ Tell Mozan, ancient Urkesh - at a glance
تل موزان، أوركيش القديمة - لمحة عامة

Tell Mozan is the site of the ancient city of Urkesh - which was known from myth and history, and which our excavations have firmly placed at this location in northeastern Syria. Its beginnings are as yet unknown, but they date back to the at least the early part of the fourth millennium B.C. It was a main center of the Hurrians, who celebrated it in their myths as the home of the father of the gods, Kumarbi. It was also the capital of a kingdom that controlled the highlands immediately to the north, where the supplies of copper were located that made the city wealthy.

Read more in the link:
ℹ️ https://urkesh.org/urkesh_at_a_glance/en.htm
ℹ️ http://urkesh.org/
ℹ️ http://www.iimas.org/
ℹ️ https://cyb-mes.net/
ℹ️ www.archaeologyin.org/syria-mozan/

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09/21/2024

⭕️ 📚 ⓃⒺⓌ 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 📚 Download 📥PDF 📁👇
The Cuneiform Texts from the Danish Excavations of Ḥamā in Syria (1931-1938)
Letters, Administrative Documents, Scholarly Texts, Inscriptions, and Seals

⭕️ 📚 ⓃⒺⓌ 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 📚 Download 📥PDF 📁👇
The Cuneiform Texts from the Danish Excavations of Ḥamā in Syria (1931-1938)
Letters, Administrative Documents, Scholarly Texts, Inscriptions, and Seals

Download the free ebook here 👇

ℹ️ http://publ.royalacademy.dk/books/755/5475?lang=en
ℹ️http://publ.royalacademy.dk/backend/web/uploads/2024-09-05/SDH4_11_00_00_2023_6574.pdf
ℹ️ www.archaeologyin.org

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06/02/2024

⭕️ M.A.-level program "History of Ancient Mediterranean Civlizations" (taught in English) offered by the University of Warsaw will accept 25 new students this year.

⭕️ M.A.-level program "History of Ancient Mediterranean Civlizations" (taught in English) offered by the University of Warsaw will be happy to accept 25 new students this year. The registration will begin on 6 June 2024 under this link
ℹ️ .

More info on the website:
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**There are no course fees for this program, which also applies to candidates from outside the European Union.**

One of the current student presents the program here: https://www.facebook.com/WydzialHistoriiUniwersytetuWarszawskiego/videos/2780396982111174 /

Some essential information:
The curriculum is based on history, archaeology and studies on culture and religion.

The program also offer general education classes on the ancient world. The obligatory canon of knowledge (e.g., history, ancient literature and philosophy) has the possibility of broadening individual interests through the addition of modules on early Christianity and literature, ancient Judaism, history of women, history of ancient slavery and discriminated groups, and the plurality of legal systems among other topics. A distinctive feature of this program is the field training: not only practical geodata collection, but also an engrossing, Mediterranean tour, funded by the Faculty.

Students will also choose from a wide variety of courses such as epigraphy, papyrology, numismatics, ancient historiography, the interpretation of cuneiform texts or specialized classes in source criticism or the editing of ancient texts.

An additional module focuses on developing competences in digital humanities and academic writing. The module includes diverse workshops on the use of digital tools for text processing, in particular the editing and data processing used in the work of historians, papyrologists, epigraphers and numismatists.

All interested in this program may contact us writing directly to Pawel Nowakowski .

ℹ️ www.archaeologyin.org

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05/04/2024

⭕️ "The Urkesh Extended Project: Community archaeology and digital discourse" conference by Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
Alcalà de Henares (Madrid), Sala de Grados, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
May 8, 2024
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM (CEST)
The flyer with the conference program can be found at the link.

ℹ️ https://www.avasa.it/en/events/events.htm
ℹ️https://www.avasa.it/PDFs/ZI508_Alcal%C3%A0.pdf
ℹ️ http://urkesh.org/
ℹ️ http://www.iimas.org/
ℹ️ https://cyb-mes.net/
ℹ️ www.archaeologyin.org/syria-mozan/

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05/03/2024

⭕️ Workshop "Et incarnatus est. El novum bíblico en el continuum de su matriz cultural mesopotámica", Giorgio Buccellati.
May 7, 2024
Madrid, Univerdidad San Dámaso, Facultad de Teología, Aula de Grados de la UESD
and on YouTube (check the link below to watch online).

This workshop aims to illustrate the structural difference between the two systems, biblical and Mesopotamian, from some examples taken from the prophetic books (including their New Testament reception). The workshop is conceived in dialogue with the work of the archaeologist and orientalist Giorgio Buccellati, who will be present to answer to respond to the various presentations.

Please see the flyer for further details and QR code for attendance from remote.

ℹ️ https://www.avasa.it/en/events/events.htm
ℹ️https://www.avasa.it/PDFs/ZI507_Madrid.pdf
ℹ️ http://urkesh.org/
ℹ️ http://www.iimas.org/
ℹ️ https://cyb-mes.net/
ℹ️ www.archaeologyin.org/syria-mozan/

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