Joshua Jeffers
Biographic Data
| ID | 4101314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Jeffers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Jeffers |
| SIGNATURE | JEFFERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Nonintercalated Lunar Calendar of the Middle Assyrian Period
Scholars generally assume that Assyria employed a luni-solar calendrical system during the Middle Assyrian period—akin to the one used in Babylonia—that kept the months of its year synchronized with the seasons of the solar year through periodic intercalation. With this understanding, the regnal dates assigned to the Middle Assyrian kings have traditionally been expressed in terms of solar years. The present article, however, argues that the Assy…
Fifth-campaign Reliefs in Sennacherib's “Palace without Rival” at Nineveh
Scholars had once assumed that all of the relief programmes in Sennacherib's “Palace Without Rival” at Nineveh depicted events solely from his first three military campaigns. In 1994, however, E. Frahm successfully reconstructed a heavily damaged epigraph from the throne room specifically identifying the city of Ukku as the topic of the relief programme on Slabs 1–4 of this room's western wall. We know from Sennacherib's annals that Ukku was a ta…
The Nonintercalated Lunar Calendar of the Middle Assyrian Period
Scholars generally assume that Assyria employed a luni-solar calendrical system during the Middle Assyrian period—akin to the one used in Babylonia—that kept the months of its year synchronized with the seasons of the solar year through periodic intercalation. With this understanding, the regnal dates assigned to the Middle Assyrian kings have traditionally been expressed in terms of solar years. The present article, however, argues that the Assy…
Fifth-campaign Reliefs in Sennacherib's “Palace without Rival” at Nineveh
Scholars had once assumed that all of the relief programmes in Sennacherib's “Palace Without Rival” at Nineveh depicted events solely from his first three military campaigns. In 1994, however, E. Frahm successfully reconstructed a heavily damaged epigraph from the throne room specifically identifying the city of Ukku as the topic of the relief programme on Slabs 1–4 of this room's western wall. We know from Sennacherib's annals that Ukku was a ta…
The Nonintercalated Lunar Calendar of the Middle Assyrian Period
Scholars generally assume that Assyria employed a luni-solar calendrical system during the Middle Assyrian period—akin to the one used in Babylonia—that kept the months of its year synchronized with the seasons of the solar year through periodic intercalation. With this understanding, the regnal dates assigned to the Middle Assyrian kings have traditionally been expressed in terms of solar years. The present article, however, argues that the Assy…
Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Ancient Near East History (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Assyria (2 works) · History (2 works) · Annals (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Astronomy (1 work) · Epigraph (1 work)