Ash-sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East No 3 1-2, 2019

Contents

Vol 3 No 1 2019

Unequal in Life but Equal in Death? The Mortuary Evidence for Social Stratification in the Ubaid Polities ??? Konstantinos Kopanias and Giota Barlagianni

Tell Shemshara 2018: Emerging and Floating Evidence ??? J. Eidem, M. Merlino, E. Mariotti and R. Kalim Salih

Investigating Late Chalcolithic Period settlement on the Marivan Plain, western Iran. First insights from the Marivan Plain Survey project ??? Morteza Zamani Dadane, Sirvan Mohammadi Ghasrian and Tim Boaz Bruun Skuldb??l

Animals in War in Historical Mesopotamia ??? Laura Battini

Luxuries Lost: Wood and Other Ligneous Materials for Interior and Architectural Decoration in Ancient Mesopotamia (Chalcolithic and Bronze Age) ??? Philippe Quenet

Temple of Amrith / The Fifth Field Season of Archaeological Excavations in 1960 ???Field Written Notes??? by Nassib Saliby ??? Michel Al-Maqdissi

A Preliminary Analysis of the Toponymy in and around the So-Called Jerusalem Corridor ??? Ran Zadok

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Vol 3 No 2 2019

Third Millennium Figurative Paintings in the Euphrates Valley. A Reassessment ??? Astrid Nunn

Damascene Mamluk Extramuros Religious Heritage (14th and 15th Centuries): The Case of the as-San??aqd??re Mosque ??? Imane Fayyad

Tepe Gryashan. Late Chalcolithic Pottery from the Region of Sanandaj, Western Iran ??? S. Mohammadi Ghasrian, M. Zamani Dadaneh, C. Colantoni and T. Boaz Bruun Skuldb??l

Where Eagles Fly: Ancient Mountain Defences East of Rania ??? Emanuele Mariotti and Matteo Merlino

Light as Experience: Rethinking Neo-Assyrian Reliefs in their Architectural Context ??? Laura Battini

About the Author

Laura Battini is an archaeologist specialised in the Ancient Near East. She is currently a researcher at the French National Centre of Scientific Research (Laboratory PROCLAC, UMR 7192, directed by Thomas R??mer). Laura created a new journal for the Ancient Near East (Ash sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East, Archaeopress), and is the editor of the archaeological series Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology.