The death of the Cimmerian leader Tugdummê in Ashurbanipal's royal inscriptions. I don't think the translation "Woe! Alas!" in RINAP 5/1 23 really captures the essence of what's being said here...it's just onomatopoetic screaming!
The peer review struggle is real. I've been trying for several months to find peer reviewers for five chapters in an edited volume. So far I've asked 24 people: 3 accepted, 3 declined, and I haven't heard anything from the other 18.
No one is bombing the Roman temples at Baalbek. Everyone please stop spreading alarmist nonsense.
"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." "Their skeletons would later be sold as Halloween decorations at Home Depot."
Thoughts prompted by a student's question today: Unlike many ancient empires (Rome for example), we really have no evidence for the Assyrians memorializing their war dead. Why is this?
Thought experiment: what would a textbook of ANE art look like if it only used artifacts held in museums in the country where they were found? Not that I actually wish such a book to exist, but I think it's useful to examine how western museum collections shaped ideas of 'canonical' ANE art.
I am truly heartbroken to say that the great Peter Green just passed away this morning at age 99 here in Iowa City. He truly was one of the greatest classicists to have lived and was finishing a Herodotus translation until his last days. S·T·T·L
I've been featured on my departmental web site! Feels like a career milestone. www.uu.edu/dept/history...
Taught my 20-month old son to say "bekos" today. #LetTheReaderUnderstand