Ash-sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East No 9 1-2 2025

Ash-sharq Vol. 9 Nos. 1-2 (2025) combines both 2025 issues in one print volume, presenting interdisciplinary studies on Near Eastern archaeology, art, and society from prehistory to the Ottoman era, including funerary practices, material analyses, iconography, long-term surveys, and memoryscapes.

Ash-sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East Vol. 9 Nos. 1-2 (2025) brings together the journal’s two 2025 issues in a single printed volume, offering a wide-ranging collection of studies on the archaeology, art, history, and societies of the Near East from prehistory to the Ottoman period. Contributions address funerary architecture and socio-economic dynamics in northern Kuwait, scientific analysis of Neo-Elamite metalwork, domestic architecture in eighteenth-century Damascus, and religious objects from Byzantine and post-Byzantine Cilicia. Further articles explore Mesopotamian deities and iconography, the reception of Babylon in modern media, glyptic imagery, Halaf-period ceramics, and social history in Presargonic Girsu. Several studies focus on the Koya/Koisanjaq region of Iraq, combining archaeological survey, long-term chronology, oral history, and memory studies to examine borderland dynamics across millennia. Together, the volume highlights the journal’s interdisciplinary approach and its engagement with both material and interpretive methodologies.

Vol 9 No. 1, 2025

Reassessment of Northern Kuwait Bay's Dry-Stone Tombs: Insights into Architecture, Burial Practices, and Socio-Economic Dynamics - Tara Steimer-Herbet, Tobias Hofstetter, Imane Achouche, Lukasz Rutkowski, Alessandra Varalli, Claudine Abegg, Sultan al-Duweish and Marie Besse

New Light on and Scientific Analysis of a Late Neo-Elamite Copper Alloy Fitting Reportedly from Tang-i Sarvak in the Bakhtiyari Highlands of Southwest Iran - St J. Simpson and A.R. Mongiatti

The Ottoman Period in Damascus (18th Century). The al-Siba?i Mansion: Surviving Evidence of a House with Three Courtyards - Imane Fayyad

Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Religious Objects from Cilicia (Southern Turkey) - Ergun Lafli, Maurizio Buora and Alev Cetingoz

Ishtar, her 'strength' and her iconographic proposal - Valeria degli Abbati

Babylon in comics - Laura Battini

Vol 9 No. 2, 2025

Glyptic depictions of Tyche in Asia Minor - Ergun Lafli and Martin Henig

The Halaf period in western Iran: New insights into the Late Neolithic-Early Chalcolithic J ware of the Mahidasht 1975-78 survey project - Sirvan Mohammadi Ghasrian, Om Albanin Ghafoori, Morteza Zamani Dadaneh

Mothers in Presargonic Girsu - Felix Rauchhaus

Borderland Histories: The Archaeological Survey of Koya/Koisanjaq (2016-2022): From Local Chronology to Imperial Periodization: The Koya Region, Paleolithic to Parthian - Cinzia Pappi, Costanza Coppini, Nyaz Azeez Awmar

Exit 'Presentation Scene', Fiat 'Temple Entrance Scene'. How to Rethink this Emblematic Scene of the First Half of the Second Millennium BC in Light of Textual Records and the Theory of Emotions - Laura Battini

Listening to the Past: Archaeology, Oral History, and Memoryscapes in the Koya Region (Iraq) - Cinzia Pappi, Nyaz Azeez Awmar

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Vol 9 No. 1, 2025

Reassessment of Northern Kuwait Bay’s Dry-Stone Tombs: Insights into Architecture, Burial Practices, and Socio-Economic Dynamics – Tara Steimer-Herbet, Tobias Hofstetter, Imane Achouche, Łukasz Rutkowski, Alessandra Varalli, Claudine Abegg, Sultan al-Duweish and Marie Besse

New Light on and Scientific Analysis of a Late Neo-Elamite Copper Alloy Fitting Reportedly from Tang-i Sarvak in the Bakhtiyari Highlands of Southwest Iran – St J. Simpson and A.R. Mongiatti

The Ottoman Period in Damascus (18th Century). The al-Sibāʻī Mansion: Surviving Evidence of a House with Three Courtyards – Imane Fayyad

Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Religious Objects from Cilicia (Southern Turkey) – Ergün Laflı, Maurizio Buora and Alev Çetingöz

Ishtar, her ‘strength’ and her iconographic proposal – Valeria degli Abbati

Babylon in comics – Laura Battini

Vol 9 No. 2, 2025

Glyptic depictions of Tyche in Asia Minor – Ergün Laflı and Martin Henig

The Halaf period in western Iran: New insights into the Late Neolithic-Early Chalcolithic J ware of the Mahidasht 1975-78 survey project – Sirvan Mohammadi Ghasrian, Om Albanin Ghafoori, Morteza Zamani Dadaneh

Mothers in Presargonic Ĝirsu – Felix Rauchhaus

Borderland Histories: The Archaeological Survey of Koya/Koisanjaq (2016-2022): From Local Chronology to Imperial Periodization: The Koya Region, Paleolithic to Parthian – Cinzia Pappi, Costanza Coppini, Nyaz Azeez Awmar

Exit ‘Presentation Scene’, Fiat ‘Temple Entrance Scene’. How to Rethink this Emblematic Scene of the First Half of the Second Millennium BC in Light of Textual Records and the Theory of Emotions – Laura Battini

Listening to the Past: Archaeology, Oral History, and Memoryscapes in the Koya Region (Iraq) – Cinzia Pappi, Nyaz Azeez Awmar

• Edited by Laura Battini