From: owner-ane@ (ANE Digest) To: ane-digest Subject: ANE Digest V1998 #66 Reply-To: Sender: owner-ane@ Errors-To: owner-ane@ Precedence: bulk ANE Digest Sunday, March 8 1998 Volume 1998 : Number 066 re: ane Musee de Beyrouth affair ane Re: Ancient Tarsus ane JHS: Invitation to submit papers re: ane Musee de Beyrouth affair ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 15:58:05 +0200 From: Naccache Subject: re: ane Musee de Beyrouth affair Dear Bruce, Thank you very much. Rarely has a bad news pleased me so... If the "Emir Maurice" did not implement a unified registry, then there is no need for confrontation with the actual curators, and instead we might work, along the steps outlined by David Ilan, towards helping them recover some of the losses. In that perspective, may I ask you about the format of the partial records you consulted? Would anyone else be kind enough to share his memories of "Le Musee de Beyrouth"? To whom should one, today, address his/her thanks and praises for the existence of the internet? Bill Gates? Sincerely, Albert Naccache Lebanese University anaccash@dm.net.lb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 10:46:32 EST From: DDetr Subject: ane Re: Ancient Tarsus I cannot contribute anything to the origin of the name Taurus but the background of the site is well covered in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age chapters of Joukowsky's "Early Turkey". It should be noted that there is a nearby site of Mersin. Joukowsky notes: "As one site ceased to exist to provide information, obliging artifacts from the other settlement filled in the record and precluded our suffering a great gap in researching this important region. Mersin and Tarsus seem to have passed a cultural ‘baton' back and forth so that the Cilician story was not lost for the future. Because many of Tarsus' Neolithic strata are located under a rising water table, Mersin has provided the greater fund of data on early farming." The major excavator of Tarsus was Hetty Goldman. Her major report is "Excavations at Gozlu Kule, Tarsus II" Princeton 1956. She also has articles in the American Journal of Archaeology: 1937 41: 282-286; 1938 42:30-54; 1940 44: 60-86. Other works listed are: Mellink, M. J. 1989 "Anatolian and Foreign Relations of Tarsus in the Early Bronze Age" In "Anatolia and the Ancient Near East", ed. K. Emri et al. Ankara French, E 1975 "A Reassessment of the Mycenaean Pottery at Tarsus" Anatolian Studies 25:53ff Goetze, A. 1936 "Philological Remarks About the Bilingual Bulla from Tarsus" AJA 49:210-214 Goetze, A. 1937 "Remarks on the Epigraphic Material Found at Tarsus" AJA 41:287-288 As indicated by the above it was apparent that by the Bronze Age Tarsus was the center of trade throughout the area. It is suggested that in the Late Bronze Tarsus may have been the capital of Kizzuwatna. In this period Tarsus became influenced by the Hittite-Mitannian battles. It is noted that the "earliest example of hieroglyphic Hittite is found on the seal of the king of Kizzuwatna found in excavations of Hetty Goldman at Tarsus." There is an extensive summary on the finds at Tarsus in the various periods but the above seems to be on the points mentioned by other posters. David Detrich ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 12:58:32 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: ane JHS: Invitation to submit papers Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: ehud ben zvi The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures welcomes the submission of scholarly articles in the area of Hebrew Scriptures (/Miqra/Old Testament/Hebrew Bible) for consideration for publication. Please notice that the homepage of the journal from which one may download the articles had 1224 visitors ("hits") since Dec 17, 1997, which is the day that we begun monitoring this aspect of the site(i.e., 15 "hits" per day). May I stress that this electronic journal is strictly refereed. You may find more information about the journal at http://www.ualberta.ca/ARTS/JHS/jhs.html Regards, Ehud Ehud Ben Zvi Religious Studies-MLCS 200 Arts University of ALberta ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Mar 98 12:29:10 -0800 From: dancrowl@harborside.com Subject: re: ane Musee de Beyrouth affair In <3.0.1.32.19980307155805.00692554@pop.dm.net.lb>, on 03/07/98 at 03:58 PM, Naccache said: >To whom should one, today, address his/her thanks and praises for the >existence of the internet? Bill Gates? Least of all, Bill Gates. The "father" of the internet is usually considered to be (Dr.) Vinton Cerf. He along with other pioneers such as Steve Crocker and Jon Postel were instrumental in the creation of the ARPANET and various protocols ( eg: TCP/IP) which are the basis of today's Internet. Except for contributing to the proliferation of commodity-class computers by providing common, easily usable, client operating systems (Windows xx), Gates' company has been a late, and largely negative factor in Internet development. Windows NT has so-far proven to be -- among other things -- too unreliable for most production-based Internet applications, and thus the primary infrastructure remains UNIX-based. -- - ----------------------------------------------------------- Daniel M. Crowl Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. -- _Hamlet_ II,2 - ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of ANE Digest V1998 #66 *************************** Back issues are available on the Oriental Institute World-Wide Web (WWW) site at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html