Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology, Part V.pdf

Sviatopolk-Tchetvertynski I. A.: The systematic study of the position and arrangement of symbols within Sumerian and Babylonian religious texts is suggested by the existence of numerous so-called ‘Lists’, compiled by Sumerian and Babylonian scribes (e.g. ‘An-Anum’, List of ME etc). The arrangement of symbols related to certain gods is of great importance for us, because the same principle is presented in the structure of the Nippur Calendar which was wide-spread around the Ancient Near East since about 2000 BC. Sacrificial cults were directly incorporated into the calendar system and they made up the most ancient skeleton of it. In this paper we make an attempt to trace the internal logic of this incorporation. We used the arrangement of symbols from three basic sources, which enables to offer the reconstruction of the Sumerian-Babylonian World Outlook: 1. The list of a hundred МЕ (Farber, 1973). 2. The Sumerian-Babylonian calendar of holidays from Nippur (Cohen, 1993). 3. The ‘Astrolabia B’ (Weidner, 1915). Such a Late-Babylonian source as the ‘Astrolabia B’ presents parities between the names of gods, certain constellations and months of the Nippur Calendar related to them. They are presented in the summary table as a systematic observance

The rod and measuring rope: Fs. for Olof Pedersén, 2019

The Female Breasts in Sumerian Literature: the sign(s), the contexts and the Akkadian correspondences Therese Rodin

This dissertation is an analysis of provenanced cylinder seal and seal impressions sourced from ten sites in Mesopotamia, dating from the Isin/Larsa period through to the Neo-Babylonia period. The focus of the research concerns two symbols: the ballstaff, and the cross. These symbols have not been analysed in great depth, hence, this new research unveils some intriguing proposals concerning their meaning and purpose. The main questions set were to establish what the two symbols could tell us about Mesopotamian society during the second and first millennia B.C., and whether it was possible to identify their symbolic meaning. In order to answer these questions, information collated and recorded on a database revealed visual and functional clues, which may instigate further exploration of the two symbols.

Iranica Antiqua, 2002

Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology, 2011

This is the translation of Part I of my monograph titled "Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology", which was published in Georgian in 2011. This section is a scholarly “adventure” of the manuscript that was found in the Bamiyan caves (Afghanistan) and taken to the British Museum for assessment and possible purchase. The manuscript had tiny stone seals engraved carefully and attached to several pages of the manuscript whose upper registers featured two letter-signs of the Kartuli Asomtavruli alphabet – Ghani and Doni. A detailed linguoculturological and paleographic analyses of the Bamiyan and Kartuli Asomtavruli letters made it necessary to include a number of scholarly fields into the study. These included Assyriology, Egyptology, historical linguistics, paleography, history, archaeology, ethnology, and Kartvelology. As a result, the book and Part I in particular, offers readers a unique opportunity to get acquainted with a new look at old problems, make use of novel ways of solving various issues, and build a logical, harmonious and continuous picture of our past outlining, at the same time, its perspectives for future studies.

Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology, 2011

Part IV completes the English translation of my 2011a monograph titled "Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology". This part is devoted to the etymological examination of Egyptian divine and royal names as well as fundamental religious concepts and their formulas. These, coupled with a number of divine names that grant the Kartvelian people the status of God are a vivid demonstration of the Kartvelian source of this ancient world.

2013

Polysemantic elements, able to evoke different and abstract ideas, symbols are in the same time expression of the proper identity of a culture and evidence of cultural interactions both diachronically and synchronically, between past and contemporary cultures. In particular the Late Bronze Age in Mesopotamia is characterized by the increasing of the importance of symbols and by the passage from an anthropomorphic to a symbolic representation of deities. The aim of this paper is to analyze the Mitannian, Cassite and Middle-Assyrian symbolic heritages, in order to detect the symbolic elements that could be considered peculiar of each culture, and to put in evidence the connection and the interrelation between them. Moreover, focusing on the geographical distribution of symbols and symbolic patterns identified, the presence and the interconnections between subgroups of a same culture will be analyzed.