This study concerns the rock reliefs of the mountains of the Kurdistan (Iraq), including those discovered in three provinces of Dohuk, Erbil and Sulaymaniyeh.The reliefs are an important source of data concerning the societies of the Ancient Near East. They have been used as evidence of former ideologies, beliefs, ceremonies and rituals. We have taken in account a large period from the early Bronze Age until the 3rd century after AD. This concerns a corpus of study including 132 objects which 43 low-reliefs found in the Iraqi Kurdistan. The reliefs were also a way to satisfy the desire for immortality of previous rulers; some of these reliefs represent a royal iconography with scenes of war and victory on the enemies, royal coronation, the ...
This paper presents a preliminary assessment of the prehistoric and protohistoric periods investigat...
Abstract: Located in the Sistan Region of Southeastern Iran, along the Zabol-Zahedan road, Shahr-i S...
The lower valley of the Syrian Euphrates, the Shahrizor Plain in Iraq and the Balkh Oasis in Afghani...
Cette étude concerne les bas-reliefs rupestres des montagnes du Kurdistan irakien, notamment ceux dé...
Le Kurdistan irakien est situé dans le nord du croissant fertile, région qui est un des berceaux de ...
The goal of this paper is to present possible evidence for the existence of commemorative monuments ...
This thesis concerns the people of the western Zagros foothills during the Early Bronze Age (3rd mil...
Small polities of marginal borderland regions in the Near East were often pushed and pulled by their...
International audienceThis article presents detailed illustrations of two rock-reliefs from the neig...
Ce travail de thèse est consacré à l'étude des populations des piémonts ouest du Zagros au Bronze an...
The present study was intended as a new approach to the study of the military equipment of the Late ...
The bas-relief of Javanroud, a free-standing roughly rectangular stone, displays three standing figu...
International audienceThe organisation of settlements and territories are inseparable from their cul...
This paper presents a preliminary assessment of the prehistoric and protohistoric periods investigat...
Abstract: Located in the Sistan Region of Southeastern Iran, along the Zabol-Zahedan road, Shahr-i S...
The lower valley of the Syrian Euphrates, the Shahrizor Plain in Iraq and the Balkh Oasis in Afghani...
Cette étude concerne les bas-reliefs rupestres des montagnes du Kurdistan irakien, notamment ceux dé...
Le Kurdistan irakien est situé dans le nord du croissant fertile, région qui est un des berceaux de ...
The goal of this paper is to present possible evidence for the existence of commemorative monuments ...
This thesis concerns the people of the western Zagros foothills during the Early Bronze Age (3rd mil...
Small polities of marginal borderland regions in the Near East were often pushed and pulled by their...
International audienceThis article presents detailed illustrations of two rock-reliefs from the neig...
Ce travail de thèse est consacré à l'étude des populations des piémonts ouest du Zagros au Bronze an...
The present study was intended as a new approach to the study of the military equipment of the Late ...
The bas-relief of Javanroud, a free-standing roughly rectangular stone, displays three standing figu...
International audienceThe organisation of settlements and territories are inseparable from their cul...
This paper presents a preliminary assessment of the prehistoric and protohistoric periods investigat...
Abstract: Located in the Sistan Region of Southeastern Iran, along the Zabol-Zahedan road, Shahr-i S...
The lower valley of the Syrian Euphrates, the Shahrizor Plain in Iraq and the Balkh Oasis in Afghani...