This dissertation focuses on a unique corpus of cuneiform tablets from southern Babylonia written during the Seleucid period (roughly 3rd- 2nd c. BCE) that preserve …
This dissertation explores how self-perception and royal ideology shaped and legitimized the ethics of community behavior and hierarchical interaction in the Egyptian Old Kingdom (ca. …
Despite the vast amount of scholarship dedicated to the study of tomb chapel decoration in the New Kingdom Theban necropolis, the restricted use of burial …
Abstract of “Egyptian and Minoan Relations During the Eighteenth Dynasty/Late Bronze Age” by Amanda L. Davis, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2016 Past scholars have been …
This dissertation investigates the origins of apotheosis—the process through which one was divinized—in ancient Egypt. Because apotheosis seems to have originally occurred posthumously, this study …
Patterns of Ancient Egyptian Child Deities, by Sung Hwan Yoo, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2012. In the Egyptian pantheon there are deities who appear in …
This thesis questions and investigates how the mastabas at the case study sites of Dendera and Elkab express elite provincial power in order to understand …
This dissertation examines how the ancient Egyptian poem The Teaching of Amenemhat was transmitted and received by its many readers throughout the New Kingdom (ca. …
This dissertation examines secrecy statements, the so-called cryptographic cuneiform texts, and foundation deposits in first millennium BCE Mesopotamia, linking them through the network of people …
The Demotic script presents many unsolved challenges to the study of Egyptian writing, yet it holds the greatest promise for new insights into the phonology …
This dissertation investigates the evolution of the imperial policies of the Egyptian 18th Dynasty (ca. 1550-1295 BC) in the northern Levant (i.e. Syria and Lebanon), …
This dissertation examines the rulers of Upper Egypt during a time of transition. The kingdom split into two politically separate areas following the death of …
The royal pyramid tombs of Sudan are striking, in a land over 1100 miles upstream of their famous forbears at Giza, for their overwhelmingly Egyptian …
Over the course of the late second and early first millennia BCE, the elite classes of the Assyrian empire received and appropriated Babylonian traditions of …
This doctoral dissertation investigates linguistic processes associated with verbal derivation, namely affixation (i.e., adding of a morpheme to a word) and reduplication (i.e., doubling of …
Modern scholars of the ancient Near East are only now beginning to appreciate the complex role commentaries played in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). This dissertation …
This dissertation investigates the treatment of eclipses in early Chinese astronomy and astrology. It discusses the practice of eclipse divination, mathematical astronomy theories, and the …
