Volume 7 Issue 1

Published: 2022-01-01

Contents


Research Paper
Palm Trees In the Greco-Roman World

Wathiq Ismaeel Al-Salihi

The Greeks called the palm tree phoenix and phoenicia on the Syrian Coast and they believed that the Phoenicians had a significant role in spreading its agriculture. The earliest mention of the...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2022.170118

Pages: 3-23
The Route of Alexander the Great to Gaugamela

Ansam Zuhair Khudur

The research highlights Alexander's the Great march to the east and the battles he fought with the Achaemenid king Darius III, and in particular, the Battle of Gaugamela that took place in the...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2022.170119

Pages: 25-56
Study in the Bronze Head of the Akkadian Revealed in Nineveh

Hussein Dhahir Hammood

One of the most outstanding Akkadian metal sculptures is the so called ''Bronze Head'' discovered in Nineveh. This elaborate highly polished work of art is a remarkable work bearing witness to the...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2022.170120

Pages: 57-78
Development of Altyn Köprü (Pirdi) in the light of new Archaeological and Historical Research

Narmin Ali Muhammad Amin

Based on a thorough archaeological and historical research, this paper traces the development of Altyn Kpr (Pirdi), the city situated on the islet in the river of Little Zab, from its presumed...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2022.170121

Pages: 79-95
Tattoos are a manifestation of the ancient Mesopotamian heritage

Abbas Abed Mandeel

The Tattoo knows as an art as a symbol of many concepts, and it been used for means, Purposes with meaning for natures. Although it is not a exclusive to one country or civilization However, it...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2022.170122

Pages: 97-129
Mesopotamian Dome – Bakhdeda dome as a Model

Mazin Zara

The dome is one of the most important architectural elements throughout the ages. Its discovery is an architectural revolution, being the most important among the architectural and construction...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2022.170123

Pages: 131-163
Unpublished Economic Akkadian Texts In The Iraq Museum

Luay Saea

The cuneiform texts of the Akkadian period show a number of developmentsIn economic affairs, including the expansion of agricultural land and the diversity of agricultural crops This is because of...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2022.170124

Pages: 165-183
The singer's manuscript in abbreviating Al-Tawtea's BookA Grammar of the Samaritan Language (A study and Investigation)

Hashim Taha Raheem Alzubeedy

The singer's book Al-Muniya f itir at-tawia,is by Eleazar Ben Pinas b. Ysuf, different in its arrangement and subject than the book of Tawtea in the grammar of Hebrew and Samaritan languages by Abu...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2022.170125

Pages: 185-204
Handicraft decorations (arabesque)-past,present and future-Syria as amodel

Munther Abdul-Moneim Muhammad Yunus Al-Taie

Arabesque is on of the authentic historical arts that bear among its decorative collections many images of conscience by the artisan artist in our Islamic world ,and thus it is a decorative style...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2022.170126

Pages: 205-238
Two New Cuneiform Texts from Iri-Sağrig Including Akkadian Formulas

Ali Mohammed Ahmed

This study concerns two unpublished confiscated cuneiform texts kept in the Iraq Museum belong to Ur III period (2112 2002) B.C.E. (IM. 235570); (IM.235558 ). Although, the texts belong to Ur III...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2022.170127

Pages: 239-253