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Isimu: Revista sobre Oriente Próximo y Egipto en la antigüedad. Volumen 16. 2013

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I. SOUNDINGS ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OT THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST - SONDEOS EN LA ARQUEOLOGÍA Y LA HISTORIA DE ORIENTE

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    Influencias del arte Mudéjar en la arquitectura colonial cubana
    (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Centro Superior de Estudios de Oriente Próximo y Egiptología, 2013) Chicuri Lastra, Aymée
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    Sharing of water resources and political unification in the lowland valleys of and in the Hadramawt in Antiquity
    (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Centro Superior de Estudios de Oriente Próximo y Egiptología, 2013) Mouton, Michel
    Search for water and its management is a significant factor of complexity. The adoption of a technique for water supply can overturns the structures of a society. In ancient Yemen, the settlement pattern in the lowlands valleys was based on irrigated agriculture. The gradual development of hydraulic technics led to an increasing agricultural activity from upstream to downstream in the valleys. The sharing of the water along a same river bed was significant to the cohesion of the communities. The building up of a network of villages and towns along each valley resulted in the formation of the ancient kingdoms, Awsan, Saba’, Qataban and their capitals on the edge of the desert. Each of those kingdoms bordering the Ramlat as-Sab’atayn had a strong identity, made of common religious and social practices on a well limited territory. The unification in the Hadramawt was of a different level. There, the seasonal floods in the main central course were never diverted, bringing about any sharing practices along the whole valley. As a consequence, irrigation practices did not facilitate the gradual integration of the different communities in a single political entity.
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    Archaeological explorations at Izat-kuli
    (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Centro Superior de Estudios de Oriente Próximo y Egiptología, 2013) Muradova, Ejegul
    Izat-kuli is located 21 km to the southwest of the modern settlement Madau (Kizyl-Etrek region, Turkmenistan). Izat-kuli settlement is limited from all sides by banks of ancient canals, beyond which is takyr. In the prospecting shaft number 1, nine stratigraphical horizons, two building periods and three periods of occupation are revealed. The thickness of cultural layers measures up 8,75 m. Pottery assemblages of the 1st and 2nd occupation periods of Izat-kuli should be referred to the Early Iron Age I of Iran, i.e. 1300/1250 - 1000 B.C. since the vessels of these complexes find parallels in the Sumbar culture, Sialk A, Kaitariya, Khurvin, Marlik-tepe. The 3rd occupation period’s ceramic assemblage of Izat-kuli finds direct analogies in the complexes of Early Iron Age II of Iran – Sialk B, Tyureng-tepe dated from 1000-800/750 B.C. In the prospecting shaft number 2, which thickness of archaeological layers is 3 m, building remains are not found. The prospecting shaft number 3 archaeological layers’ thickness reaches 4,95 m. In its upper layers there is revealed a building period applying to the top building horizon of settlement which corresponds to the excavated living and economic complexes. The received results of stratigraphical explorations allow to judge dynamics of development of Izat-kuli settlement and its long existence. Stratigraphical researches on Madaudepe, the settlements of Benguvan oasis, Tilkidepe, Chyglykdepe, Tangsikylja, Izat-kuli have established that the archaeological layers containing pottery of Archaic Dakhistan culture lay directly on the ancient delta deposits of Sumbar and Atrek rivers. No saline delta deposits were apparently an ancient surface on which people settled down at the end of the II millennium B.C. A dense irrigation system promoted development of agriculture. On the investigated plain there is a large massif of the ancient irrigated lands testifying to the high level of development of the ancient farming culture
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    Some information related to the art histrory of the hephthalite time (4th-6th centuries ad) in Central Asia niegbouring countries
    (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Centro Superior de Estudios de Oriente Próximo y Egiptología, 2013) Kurbanov, Aydogdy
    The paper deals with the artefacts which might be related to the Hephthalites, who lived in territory of Central Asia and neighbouring countries in 4th – 6th centuries AD. In the 5th - 6th centuries AD, the Hephthalites could establish a great empire. It is noted that the materials are very limited, and even the dating is often approximate and inexact. Nevertheless author has here tried to interpret the available data from various sources on the Hephthalites, even if several major questions continue to be open for discussion and will probably remain so for some time in the future
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    Jebel al-Mutawwaq: la evolución del estudio de un yacimiento de la Edad de Bronce Antiguo I en la estepa jordana
    (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Centro Superior de Estudios de Oriente Próximo y Egiptología, 2013) Muñiz Álvarez, Juan Ramón; Polcaro, Andrea; Álvarez Martínez, Valentín
    Jebel Mutawwaq is an exceptional place for the study of Early Bronze I in Middle East. It is a settlement constructed and suddenly left in this particular period (3500 - 3000 BC), without any later reoccupation. The recovered remains are a part of this proto-urban period that in this case it did not manage to consolidate. Its geographical situation, inside the Valley of Zarqa River, places it in a singular environment to other Jordan villages of this period as Jawa or Umm Hammad. The settlement is in addition a dolmens field with more than 1100 monuments located around the same mountain.
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    Il dominio achemeni de nella Siria del nord: il caso di Tell Tuqan
    (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Centro Superior de Estudios de Oriente Próximo y Egiptología, 2013) Baffi, Francesca
    Syria during the Persian domination was administrated by V Satrapia. But, whereas there are so many archaeological and epigraphic evidences about the power Persia wielded on the East Coast area, the ones about inner Syria are really little, also because the kind of research that was treaded in that part of the country. Nevertheless, Tell Tuqan excavations helped to define the historical situation (in part already known by the recoveries in Ebla and in the other localities in the area) and documented the peculiarity of a place that was conditioned by his position on a shore of an ancient lake. Data about life from the Persian time to the Hellenistic one, are very interesting, and show a continuity without interruptions
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    Gran rey, rey del mundo, rey de Asiria ... ¿Rey de reyes de las tierras de Dilmun, Magan y Meluhha?
    (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Centro Superior de Estudios de Oriente Próximo y Egiptología, 2013) Cerro Linares, Carmen del; UAM. Departamento de Historia Antigua, Historia Medieval, Paleografía y Diplomática; Departamento de Historia Antigua, Medieval, Paleografía y Diplomática
    Assyrian royal titles in first Millennium shows us a strong kingship that has a power over the whole known world, even Lower Sea, i.e. the regions of Dilmun and Magan. Dilmun, placed in Bahrain Island, seems to be a kingdom ruled by a king who sends tributes to Assyria. Magan is more difficult to locate during the reign of Sargon as well as in the first inscriptions of Aššarhaddon, where Kush and Magan are the same land. Oman Peninsula seems to be forgotten in neoassyrian textual sources; but in fact Magan is mentioned by the name of Qadê, Land of King Padê. From an archaeological point of view, we have searched for Qadê core at places like Izki or Salut, but until now, none Omani settlement matches the city of Padê or claims the Assyrian presence in the area
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    Placas votivas del asentamiento de Yuja
    (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Centro Superior de Estudios de Oriente Próximo y Egiptología, 2013) Salman Rumaiydh, Salah
    Votive plaques found in Mesopotamian temples from Third Millennium BC, are a very special creation of Sumerian art. These plaques have been set up not only along Diyala Valley as well as in Mesopotamian cities close to rivers Tigris and Euphrates, but also at Mari. All of them are divided in three fields, where usually a feast is represented. We could see also the representation of a banquet after a victorious conquest; in this case it would be the Victory of Sumerian City King involved in the fighting. Latest archaeological excavations carried out by the Iraqi team at tell Joukh allowed the recuperation of two votives plaques at the site. One of them is unfinished; the other one is an important subject in our paper. We would try to compare this plaque with items coming from temple of God Sin at Khafaja or from temple of Goddess Ištar at Mari
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    Enki y Ninhursanga
    (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Centro Superior de Estudios de Oriente Próximo y Egiptología, 2013) Jiménez Zamudio, Rafael; Departamento de Filología Clásica
    The myth of Enki and Ninhursanga, considered by some authors a precedent of the myth of the paradise, is a literary composition in which two stories come together. In both stories appears Enki as unifying element, symbolizing the revitalizing power of the sweet and fresh waters that irrigate and fertilize the land. The death and disappearance of this divinity because of his sexual incontinence causes the desiccation of the waters and the desertification of the landscape. The gods aware of it, persuade Ninhursanga to return him to the life. Thus the cosmic balance will return again.