Volume 1 Issue 1

Published: 2012-12-01

Contents


Research Paper
The Relationship Between The Assyrian Kings and Their Gods

Ali Yassen Aljuboori

The Assyria were group of the Amorite tribes who migrate from west of Mesopotamia (Syria) by the beginning of the second Millennium B.C and they established their city state in Mari, Isin, Larsa,...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69793

Pages: 3-19
The University of Mosul and its archaeological activity

Amer Suleiman

It has been a philosophy of the university of Mosul and its scientific and cultural programs since its establishment to interact with the community, and one of the most prominent means of...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69367

Pages: 13-20
Samarra's ornamentation patterns and their influence on the ornamentation of Mosul in the third century AH / ninth century AD

Ahmed Qassim Aljumaah

The city of Samarra was distinguished by its architectural and artistic styles, and it was the capital of the Abbasid government instead of Baghdad when it was built by Caliph Al-Mu'tasim (221 AH /...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69443

Pages: 21-30
Hatra Kingdom: Political Situation

Jaber Khalil Ibrahim

The city of Hatra played an important role in the political situation due to its advantages and characteristics, especially its geographical location, which made it unique comparing to the other...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69688

Pages: 31-49
The palace of king Ashur-aḫi-idina in Nineveh -Reading and Analyzing the Inscriptions and Archaeological Evidences

Khalid Salim Ismael

The palace of King Aur-ai-idina (Esarhaddon) 681-668 BC. was built on the Nabi Yunis hill, it is one of the important archaeological buildings in the city of Nineveh. King Aur-ai-idina mentioned it...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69689

Pages: 51-61
The Royal Streets obelisks in Nineveh between the Biblical Text and the Art Scene

Nawala Ahmed Al-Mutwally

The research deals with an Assyrian stone obelisk acquired by the Iraqi Museum in 1999 and displayed in the Mosul Civilization Museum with museum number 147624 - A.D. It is a rectangular obelisk...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69690

Pages: 61-75
The role of surveying and archaeological excavations in writing the history of ancient Iraq

Sabah Jassim Al Shukri

The research deals with recent studies in the field of archaeology during the last four decades of the last century. The survey work is one of the broad areas of research in archeology. The...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69691

Pages: 75-82
List of names of workers from the city of Meturan

Ahmed Kamel Mohamed

The research deals with one of the cuneiform texts discovered in the city of Meturan (Tall Haddad), which is labelled with the museum number 121115-AD, which dates back to the ancient Babylonian...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69692

Pages: 83-96
The Written Quotation Behind the Epic of Gilgamesh and Its visual Dimensions Through the Ancient Iraqi Civilization Judea and Hammurabi as a Model

Juhaina Hamid Hassani

The shape has been depicted as one of the most significant civilizational means which functions in human life, in terms of linking senders and receivers within the art of structural speech. It aims...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69694

Pages: 97-116
The ancient Iraqi philosophical thought is a base for Greek philosophy

Shaalan Kamel Ismail

It became known to researchers in the history of Greek philosophy that this thought was not a local Greek innovation in those distinct limited centuries between the eighth century to the third...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69695

Pages: 113-118
Rebellion and disobedience in the Neo-Assyrian Kingdom (911-612 BC)

Safwan Sami Saeed

The military expansion of the Neo Assyrian period was different impulsive and reasons, the mass deportation of the peoples from the conquered countries and settling them as groups in side Assyria...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69697

Pages: 119-132
Two unpublished cuneiform texts from the Ur III Period

Khaled Haider Othman Al-Hafiz

There is no doubt that the third dynasty of Ur was of great importance in the history of ancient Iraq, as the geographical area of the rule of this dynasty extended to include large areas of the...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69698

Pages: 133-143
Water supply and disposal in Assyria in the light of cuneiform sources.

Eman Hani Alloush

The supply and disposal of water in the cities and the capital in ancient Iraq is one of the important civilizational achievements and one of the most important elements of civilization whose...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69779

Pages: 145-157
Al-Khawser River in Cuneiform Sources

Abdul Rahman Younis Abdul Rahman

The Khosr River is one of the ancient tributaries of the Tigris River, whose traces of its valley are still visible in the city of Nineveh to the present time. According to the discovered written...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69780

Pages: 158-176
Relative Pronoun and its Relative Clause in the Akkadian Language

Hassanein H. Abdulwahed

In spite of the fate that Akkadian is not regarded as a communication and writing language, it is still paid a great deal of attention by the scholars specializations in this language. This fact...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69782

Pages: 177-188
Geometric Motifs in ancient Sumerian Art

Ghassan Mardan

Ornamentations in Ancient Sumerian Art are very important in studies related to ruins of ancient arts. Artists in ancient Mesopotamia have paid a great attention in performing artistic. It was very...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69784

Pages: 189-199
Examples of wild animals on the Assyrian sculptures - selected samples

Yasmin Yassin Saleh

Information related to the animals in Mesopotamia comes from three sources, the first of which is the bones discovered through archaeological excavations, the second is the signs of cuneiform...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69787

Pages: 201-212
Archaeologists and Heritage Experts and Their Successive Generations in Iraq

Abdullah Ameen Agha

Our course and its graduates from archaeologists for the year 1964-1965 are considered one of the largest and most numerous graduate courses who worked in the state board of Antiquities and...

DOI: 10.33899/athar.2012.69788

Pages: 213-220