Kategoria BISAC: History >> Ancient - General

The first of five volumes planned of the inscriptions from the island of Kos, as well as the neighbouring islands Kalymnos, Leros, Lepsia and Patmos, contains the 423 decrees and religious inscriptions from the island of Kos, from the foundation of the city of the same name in 366 BC to the end of the Roman Empire.

The coverage of the Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archaologie embraces those ancient Near Eastern cultures which used the cuneiform script (Mesopotamia, North Syria and Anatolia) together with neighbouring regions in the 4th to the 1st millennia B.C.

Entries include important personalities (rulers, scholars, administrators etc.), deities, ancient place names and modern archaeological sites, as well as cultural items and concepts (e.g. "house," "purchase," "literature," "mathematics," "milk"), which are treated from both philological and archaeological...

The particular aim of this volume is an extensive compilation of Hattian words based on Hittite written sources. It sets itself the task of listing all Hattian lexical elements alphabetically as they occur as words or in word combinations, with text references, and relevant bibliography. The main part of the book, the "List of Hattian Words," contains morphological analyses of the Hattian lexemes, their Hittite equivalents in the bilingual documents as well as the lexical elements Hittite borrowed from Hattian. Apart from the word list this study offers information on the Hattian text corpus,...

Brill is pleased to present this Study Edition of the Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus, including the Namenworterbuch zu Flavius Josephus, in two handy volumes. We expect it will prove to be a valuable resource for scholars and students alike. The significance of the works of Flavius Josephus, the 1st-century Jewish historian, as sources for our understanding of biblical history and of the political history of Palestine under Roman rule, can hardly be overestimated. This Study Edition is an unabridged version of the widely acclaimed concordance to the works of Josephus,...