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Smuggling Cuneiform Tablets in Aniseed Bags: Profile of a Sale Made by Elias Gejou to the British Museum in 1896 (2022)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2022). Smuggling Cuneiform Tablets in Aniseed Bags: Profile of a Sale Made by Elias Gejou to the British Museum in 1896. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 32(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-667

The British Museum archive preserves hundreds of letters sent by antiquities dealers based in Baghdad who regularly wrote to sell archaeological artefacts to the department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities (the former name of today’s Middle East... Read More about Smuggling Cuneiform Tablets in Aniseed Bags: Profile of a Sale Made by Elias Gejou to the British Museum in 1896.

When Things Go Wrong: Smuggling Artefacts from Baghdad to London in the late 19th Century (2022)
Digital Artefact
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. When Things Go Wrong: Smuggling Artefacts from Baghdad to London in the late 19th Century

Many of the artefacts we see today in the ‘Ancient Near East’ collections of European and American museums were purchased in the late 19th and early 20th century from dealers who specialised in smuggling archaeological artefacts to Europe from Baghda... Read More about When Things Go Wrong: Smuggling Artefacts from Baghdad to London in the late 19th Century.

Joseph Svoboda: selling clay tablets in nineteenth-century Baghdad (2021)
Digital Artefact
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2021). Joseph Svoboda: selling clay tablets in nineteenth-century Baghdad

Ibrahim Elias Gejou and Old Babylonian omens (2021)
Digital Artefact
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. Ibrahim Elias Gejou and Old Babylonian omens

BM 87655 a fragment of Old Babylonian oil omens (2020)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2020). BM 87655 a fragment of Old Babylonian oil omens. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 4, 230-233

SM 36013 – an account of goods (aklum) on a tirānu model in the Slemani Museum (2020)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2020). SM 36013 – an account of goods (aklum) on a tirānu model in the Slemani Museum. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 3, 182-183

BM 87642: an Old Babylonian oil omen fragment about marriage (2020)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2020). BM 87642: an Old Babylonian oil omen fragment about marriage. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2, 130-132

Glassner, Jean-Jacques. Le Devin historien en Mésopotamie (Ancient Magic and Divination 16). (2020)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2020). Glassner, Jean-Jacques. Le Devin historien en Mésopotamie (Ancient Magic and Divination 16). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 83(1), 129-130. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X20000051

The Accusative-Initial Sentence in YOS 10 omen texts (2019)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2019). The Accusative-Initial Sentence in YOS 10 omen texts. Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 113(1), 139-150. https://doi.org/10.3917/assy.113.0139

Word-order in Akkadian is generally described as SOV, and although other word-orders than SOV are visible in texts when they are examined individually, trends over an entire corpus remain difficult to establish. Buccellati (1996: 396) recommended tha... Read More about The Accusative-Initial Sentence in YOS 10 omen texts.

Reassessing the “casus pendens”: a case study of Old Babylonian omen protases and apodoses (2019)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2019). Reassessing the “casus pendens”: a case study of Old Babylonian omen protases and apodoses. Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 2018/1(112), 91-101. https://doi.org/10.3917/assy.112.0091

The present article proposes a reassessment of the “casus pendens” categorisation based on Arabic grammatical theory and its focus on sentence structure. Structures traditionally described as ‘casus pendens’ sentences, abbreviated here as nom + nom-s... Read More about Reassessing the “casus pendens”: a case study of Old Babylonian omen protases and apodoses.