Preislamic Near East: History, Religion, Culture. Conference Proceedings. Vol. 2. 2021

Preislamic Near East: History, Religion, Culture. Vol. 2. Conference Proceedings. / Ed. by M. Tarasenko. Kyiv: A.Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the NAS of Ukraine, 2021. 188 p.

https://doi.org/10.15407/preislamic2021.02

ISBN 978-966-02-9674-9 

ISBN 978-966-02-9675-6 (Vol 2)

The collection of articles is based on the materials of the International Scientific Round Table “Pre-Islamic Near East: History, Religion, Culture” (Kyiv, December 10, 2020), which was organized by the A. Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The collection includes articles on the problems of history, religion, culture, worldview, archeology, source studies and reception of the civilizations of the Ancient Near East. The publication is designed for specialists in oriental studies, historians, researchers in religion and culture studies, archaeologists, students and graduate students of the humanities and anyone interested in the history of the Ancient World.

Contents

Baukova A. Yu. Goddess Tyche in the Coinage of the Cities of the Roman Province of Asia …………………………………………………………. 9

Bondarenko N. M. Evolution of the Office of “God’s Wife” in Ancient Egypt …………………..……… 27

Vertiienko H. V. Avestan tašta-bowl in the Iranian Tradition: Origins and Reminiscences ……………………………………………………………. 33

Dziahel H. V. Generic Thinking and Ideology of Purity in the Worldview of the Jewish Community in the Persian Period (6th – 4th centuries BC) ………………………………………………………………… 47

Dubovskaya V. N. On the Use of the Term kudurru in Relation to the Monuments of the Middle Babylonian Period (from the beginning of the 16th to the middle of the 12th centuries BC) ……………………………………………… 53

Zapletniuk O. A. Queen Ankhesenamun and the Crisis of the Amarna Dynasty ………………….……. 61

Zelinskyi A. L. The Deliberate “Mistakes” in a Demotic Version of the Rafia Decree …………………………………………………………..………. 69

Ziborova D. A. Time-Eternity: Ancient Egyptian Temporal Concept in the Context of Ancient Greek Philosophy ………………………………..……… 79

Kozak A. I. The Role of the Libyphoenician Cavalry in the Barcid Army ……………………… 89

Kukharchyk Yu. S. Arachosia according to Old Persian Royal Inscriptions …………………….……… 99

Lapushanski I. Yu. Temple Personnel and Ritual Practice of the Esagil Temple in the Second Millennium BC …………………………………………..…………. 109

Semenenko I. O. Canal Stelae of Darius I in the Context of the Imperial Policy of the Achaemenid state ………………………..………….. 113

Smirnou S. M. Syncretism in the Religious Life of Ancient Palmyra in the 3rd Century СE …………………………….………………………………….. 125

Spartak A. A. Ancient Egyptian Denotations of Obelisks …………………………………………. 139

Tarasenko M. O.  Serhiy Donich (1900–1958): the Fate of Egyptologist in Soviet Ukraine …………………………………………. 147

Usenko I. V. Images of Ancient Egypt in Modern Mass Culture (on the Example of the Film “Gods of Egypt”) …………………………………… 181