Jana Mynářová
Biographic Data
| ID | 4071863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jana Mynářová |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jana |
| FAMILY NAME | Mynářová |
| SIGNATURE | MYNÁŘOVÁ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8213-8788 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The power of writing
This article examines cylinder seals bearing genuine and pseudo-cuneiform inscriptions from the southern Levant, situating them within the wider glyptic traditions of Bronze Age Western Asia. Seals with authentic inscriptions attest to links with literate administration, whereas pseudo-inscribed examples engage with the symbolic authority of script in non-semantic ways. These artefacts were intentionally created to appropriate the visual prestige…
Unveiling Materiality
This article examines a frequently overlooked aspect of cuneiform writing in Egypt: the materiality and technology involved in the production of cuneiform tablets, with a particular focus on the process of tablet firing. It is argued that firing was an integral part of tablet production that required learning and practice by the Amarna scribes. The successful firing of tablets to temperatures around 800°C is attributed to the robust and longstand…
History of the Akkadian Language
Manufacturing Technology
Liminal People(s) in the Late Bronze Age Levant? A New Light on Sherden ( šerdanu )
This article focuses on issues related to political liminality in the environment of the Levant in the Late Bronze Age. It first defines the term and then identifies key population groups that can be considered politically liminal. The main focus is on the so-called Sherden (Akk. šerdanu , širdanu ), a group of persons and individuals, which are found in ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian sources spanning several centuries during the second half o…
Outside the Pale
Studies of the Bronze Age in the ancient world traditionally have focused on mainstream populations, together with their social organization, and the economic subsistence strategies implemented by them. As a result, those people who lived on the edges of society, whether defined geographically, socially, demographically, or economically, have received correspondingly less attention. Yet, peoples on the margins of mainstream populations fulfilled …
Hrozný and Hittite
Il contributo intende analizzare tutti i possibili continuatori ittiti della radice indoeuropea *steh2- 'stare', sia alla luce delle riflessioni belardiane del 1976, sia traendo spunto dalle osservazioni di H. Eichner (1988), O. Carruba (1986), A. Archi (1995) e R. Francia (2010), riflessioni che offrono il presupposto per tentare di offrire una nuova interpretazione etimologica del verbo ittito istanh- 'gustare, assaporare cibi', che viene dunqu…
The Scribes of Amarna
The Scribes of Amarna
Amarna letters
The Amarna letters are a collection of Cuneiform tablets discovered in the ruins of ancient Akhetaten (“The Horizon of the Sun‐disc” or “The Horizon of Aten”; modern Tell el‐Amarna, in Middle Egypt.
Athribis, Tell Atrib
The site of Tell Atrib (Greek Athribis, ancient Egyptian Ḥwt‐hry‐jb(t) ) is located in the southern part of the Delta, approximately 50 km north of Cairo, in the suburbs of the modern‐day city of Benha (Vernus 1975). Athribis was an important political, religious, and administrative center of the Nile Delta and the capital city of the Tenth nome of Lower Egypt. According to written sources, the earliest history of the site can be dated to the ear…
Amarna letters
The Amarna letters are a collection of Cuneiform tablets discovered in the ruins of ancient Akhetaten (“The Horizon of the Sun‐disc” or “The Horizon of Aten”; modern Tell el‐Amarna, in Middle Egypt.
Athribis, Tell Atrib
The site of Tell Atrib (Greek Athribis, ancient Egyptian Ḥwt‐hry‐jb(t) ) is located in the southern part of the Delta, approximately 50 km north of Cairo, in the suburbs of the modern‐day city of Benha (Vernus 1975). Athribis was an important political, religious, and administrative center of the Nile Delta and the capital city of the Tenth nome of Lower Egypt. According to written sources, the earliest history of the site can be dated to the ear…
The Scribes of Amarna
The Scribes of Amarna
Hrozný and Hittite
Il contributo intende analizzare tutti i possibili continuatori ittiti della radice indoeuropea *steh2- 'stare', sia alla luce delle riflessioni belardiane del 1976, sia traendo spunto dalle osservazioni di H. Eichner (1988), O. Carruba (1986), A. Archi (1995) e R. Francia (2010), riflessioni che offrono il presupposto per tentare di offrire una nuova interpretazione etimologica del verbo ittito istanh- 'gustare, assaporare cibi', che viene dunqu…
Liminal People(s) in the Late Bronze Age Levant? A New Light on Sherden ( šerdanu )
This article focuses on issues related to political liminality in the environment of the Levant in the Late Bronze Age. It first defines the term and then identifies key population groups that can be considered politically liminal. The main focus is on the so-called Sherden (Akk. šerdanu , širdanu ), a group of persons and individuals, which are found in ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian sources spanning several centuries during the second half o…
Outside the Pale
Studies of the Bronze Age in the ancient world traditionally have focused on mainstream populations, together with their social organization, and the economic subsistence strategies implemented by them. As a result, those people who lived on the edges of society, whether defined geographically, socially, demographically, or economically, have received correspondingly less attention. Yet, peoples on the margins of mainstream populations fulfilled …
History of the Akkadian Language
Manufacturing Technology
Unveiling Materiality
This article examines a frequently overlooked aspect of cuneiform writing in Egypt: the materiality and technology involved in the production of cuneiform tablets, with a particular focus on the process of tablet firing. It is argued that firing was an integral part of tablet production that required learning and practice by the Amarna scribes. The successful firing of tablets to temperatures around 800°C is attributed to the robust and longstand…
The power of writing
This article examines cylinder seals bearing genuine and pseudo-cuneiform inscriptions from the southern Levant, situating them within the wider glyptic traditions of Bronze Age Western Asia. Seals with authentic inscriptions attest to links with literate administration, whereas pseudo-inscribed examples engage with the symbolic authority of script in non-semantic ways. These artefacts were intentionally created to appropriate the visual prestige…
History (10 works) · Ancient Near East History (9 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Cuneiform (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Bronze (2 works)