Richard L Zettler
Biographic Data
| ID | 273684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard L Zettler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Zettler |
| SIGNATURE | ZETTLER R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Sacred Landscape of Sumer
The statuettes commonly referred to as “Ram Caught in a Thicket” (2500 BC ) may well be associated with what is known from later texts (2nd millennium BC ) as the (daily) determining-of-the-fates ritual that occurred at sunrise. Symbolic elements (tree, rosette, leaf, possible mountain), and motifs (quadruped facing a tree) occur in other media—glyptic, musical instruments—and their meaning informs the unique combination of elements found in thes…
Types of Gold, Types of Silver
The many gold and silver artifacts from the Early Dynastic Royal Tombs of Ur in Mesopotamia are among the greatest metal finds of Ancient Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. Within the framework of a research project, 32 of these artifacts were analyzed for their composition using a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer and a scanning electron microscope. Predominantly gold-silver alloys rather than pure gold were identified, containing up…
Platinum group placer minerals in ancient gold artifacts – Geochemistry and osmium isotopes of inclusions in Early Bronze Age gold from Ur/Mesopotamia
Sacred Killing
Inana's Festival at Nippur under the Third Dynasty of Ur
Human sacrifice and intentional corpse preservation in the Royal Cemetery of Ur
The Royal Tombs at Ur have been long famous for their chilling scenario of young soldiers and courtesans who loyally took poison to die with their mistress. The authors investigate two of the original skulls with CT scans and propose a procedure no less chilling, but more enforceable. The victims were participants in an elaborate funerary ritual during which they were felled with a sharp instrument, heated, embalmed with mercury, dressed and laid…
Nippur
Reconstructing the World of Ancient Mesopotamia
Since its inception in the nineteenth century, ancient Mesopotamian studies has recognized a division of labor between archaeologists and philologists/historians that has often skewed histories of the "land between the rivers." Recent efforts, inspired in part by the Sumerologist Thorkild Jacobsen, offer hope for more holistic histories. Three case studies—on the Inanna temple at Nippur under the Third Dynasty of Ur, abrupt climate change in the …
Statement on the Looting of Iraq's National Museum
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Nippur, III
The Ur III Temple of Inanna at Nippur
First Impressions . Dominique Collon
Tell Imlihiye, Tell Zubeidi, Tell Abbas . Rainer Michael Boehmer , Heinz-Werner Dämmer
Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum
The Alalakh Cylinder Seals
Early near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection . Briggs Buchanan
Sealings as Artifacts of Institutional Administration in Ancient Mesopotamia
The "Small Shrine" of Enlil at Nippur
On the Chronological Range of Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Seals
Die Keramik vom Tell Chuēra und ihre Beziehungen zu Finden aus Syrien-Palästina, der Türkei und dem Iraq . Harmut Kühne
Human sacrifice and intentional corpse preservation in the Royal Cemetery of Ur
The Royal Tombs at Ur have been long famous for their chilling scenario of young soldiers and courtesans who loyally took poison to die with their mistress. The authors investigate two of the original skulls with CT scans and propose a procedure no less chilling, but more enforceable. The victims were participants in an elaborate funerary ritual during which they were felled with a sharp instrument, heated, embalmed with mercury, dressed and laid…
Platinum group placer minerals in ancient gold artifacts – Geochemistry and osmium isotopes of inclusions in Early Bronze Age gold from Ur/Mesopotamia
Sealings as Artifacts of Institutional Administration in Ancient Mesopotamia
Reconstructing the World of Ancient Mesopotamia
Since its inception in the nineteenth century, ancient Mesopotamian studies has recognized a division of labor between archaeologists and philologists/historians that has often skewed histories of the "land between the rivers." Recent efforts, inspired in part by the Sumerologist Thorkild Jacobsen, offer hope for more holistic histories. Three case studies—on the Inanna temple at Nippur under the Third Dynasty of Ur, abrupt climate change in the …
Die Keramik vom Tell Chuēra und ihre Beziehungen zu Finden aus Syrien-Palästina, der Türkei und dem Iraq . Harmut Kühne
On the Chronological Range of Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Seals
The "Small Shrine" of Enlil at Nippur
Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum
The Alalakh Cylinder Seals
Early near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection . Briggs Buchanan
Sealings as Artifacts of Institutional Administration in Ancient Mesopotamia
Tell Imlihiye, Tell Zubeidi, Tell Abbas . Rainer Michael Boehmer , Heinz-Werner Dämmer
First Impressions . Dominique Collon
The Ur III Temple of Inanna at Nippur
Nippur, III
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Statement on the Looting of Iraq's National Museum
Nippur
Reconstructing the World of Ancient Mesopotamia
Since its inception in the nineteenth century, ancient Mesopotamian studies has recognized a division of labor between archaeologists and philologists/historians that has often skewed histories of the "land between the rivers." Recent efforts, inspired in part by the Sumerologist Thorkild Jacobsen, offer hope for more holistic histories. Three case studies—on the Inanna temple at Nippur under the Third Dynasty of Ur, abrupt climate change in the …
Inana's Festival at Nippur under the Third Dynasty of Ur
Human sacrifice and intentional corpse preservation in the Royal Cemetery of Ur
The Royal Tombs at Ur have been long famous for their chilling scenario of young soldiers and courtesans who loyally took poison to die with their mistress. The authors investigate two of the original skulls with CT scans and propose a procedure no less chilling, but more enforceable. The victims were participants in an elaborate funerary ritual during which they were felled with a sharp instrument, heated, embalmed with mercury, dressed and laid…
Sacred Killing
Platinum group placer minerals in ancient gold artifacts – Geochemistry and osmium isotopes of inclusions in Early Bronze Age gold from Ur/Mesopotamia
Types of Gold, Types of Silver
The many gold and silver artifacts from the Early Dynastic Royal Tombs of Ur in Mesopotamia are among the greatest metal finds of Ancient Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. Within the framework of a research project, 32 of these artifacts were analyzed for their composition using a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer and a scanning electron microscope. Predominantly gold-silver alloys rather than pure gold were identified, containing up…
A Sacred Landscape of Sumer
The statuettes commonly referred to as “Ram Caught in a Thicket” (2500 BC ) may well be associated with what is known from later texts (2nd millennium BC ) as the (daily) determining-of-the-fates ritual that occurred at sunrise. Symbolic elements (tree, rosette, leaf, possible mountain), and motifs (quadruped facing a tree) occur in other media—glyptic, musical instruments—and their meaning informs the unique combination of elements found in thes…
History (18 works) · Ancient Near East History (13 works) · Ancient history (10 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (10 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (6 works) · Classics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)