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.

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.