Search

This text analyzes the custom of the festival of relics (ostensio reliquiarum), at which the relics of a church were publicly displayed. On the basis of an examination of 24 late-medieval relic festivals in the Roman-German regnum, the liturgical-ceremonial patterns of these festivals and their functions are presented, especially in the area of the system of indulgences and the representation of governing.

Trente-et-une bulles d'argile (dockets) portant des inscriptions en arameen ont ete decouvertes dans l'une des pieces de la Maison rouge lors de la campagne de fouilles de 1995 a Tall Sēh Hamad. L'auteur etudie dans cet article un cachet de forme ovale, imprime sur l'une de ces bulles, qui represente un homme vetu d'une longue robe et d'un chapeau, debout dans un croissant de lune, incarnant sans aucun doute le dieu de la lune.

Le style de la glyptique moyen-assyrienne consistait jusqu'ici en un type uniformise que l'on peut qualifier de modele. Un groupe de sceaux-cylindres provenant de Tall Sēh Hamad/Dūr-katlimmu a permis de decouvrir un autre style denomme cut style, qui semble etre apparu avant Salmanassar I, avoir connu son apogee sous le regne de ce dernier et ne plus se retrouver que de facon episodique sous Tukultī-Ninurta I.

International audience; Texts from the Upper-Mesopotamian kingdom in the the time of king Samsi-Addu (also known as Shamshi-Adad I.) in the 18th century BC are dated by Assyrian eponyms and a special month calendar different from the Old Assyrian one. The succession of month names has been established in 1985 by D. Charpin (MARI 4, p. 244ff.) and confirmed in the following years. The starting point of the year in fall, intercalation of supplementary months and annual festivals are known. This dating system survived after the death of Samsi-Addu and the collapse of his huge kingdom in many parts of Upper Mesopotamia.; Les textes du royaume de Haute-Mésopotamie de l'époque du roi Samsi-Addu (également connu sous le nom de Shamshi-Adad I.) au 18e siècle avant J.-C. sont datés par des éponymes assyriens et un calendrier mensuel spécial différent de celui de la ville d'Ashur. La succession des noms de mois a été établie en 1985 par D. Charpin (MARI 4, p. 244ff.) et confirmée dans les années suivantes. Le point de départ de l'année en automne, l'intercalation des mois supplémentaires et les fêtes annuelles sont connus. Ce système de datation a survécu après la mort de Samsi-Addu et l'effondrement de son immense royaume dans de nombreuses régions de Haute Mésopotamie.

Krzysztof Jakubiak

International audience; During the eighth campaign (1961-62) of the Danish Archaeological expedition to Bahrain a silver hoard contained within a ceramic jar was discovered. It was described as consisting of « pieces of smelted silver, portions of bracelets clipped into several pieces, and a number of complete rings and earrings » (1). The hoard was provisionally dated to between 650 and 550 B.C. by the presence of a signet ring bearing an inscription in pseudo-Egyptian hieroglyphs. The purpose of this article is to re-examine the hoard, virtually neglected since its initial publication. The recent publication of an important article on money in ancient Mesopotamia prior to the advent of coinage places the Bahrain hoard in a new light and it will be suggested here that at least some of the contents of the hoard functioned as money. This Bahrain discovery appears as an important document for the study of early money in the ancient Near East prior to the beginnings of coinage.