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Two texts written in #Syriac and attributed to St. #Bridget of Sweden were recently identified among the manuscript collections digitized by HMML in Iraq.

Dr. James Walters, lead cataloger of Eastern Christian collections at HMML, takes a closer look: https://t.co/XuSrhY8fQX

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A remarkable collection of short, congratulatory notes in honor of Joseph Emmanueal II, Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon, compiled in 1904 CE & written in over 40 languages & dialects.

Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarchate of Baghdad, Iraq (CPB 00370): https://t.co/EEXw9HY5HB

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Assyria: Chronicling the rise and fall of the world’s first empire | YaleNews https://t.co/gxYEcpMDa7

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The first known formula for glass production from the library of the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal (c. 650 BC):

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Emission "Foi et traditions des Chrétiens orientaux" qui porte sur la liturgie de l'Eglise assyro-chaldéenne, diffusée sur TF1 en 1985.

Liturgie en araméen, la langue du Christ.

https://t.co/2sXA1s52Dv

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Pope Paul V’s letter to Shah Abbas I, 3rd Nov. 1612:

“Those in particular who are called Assyrians or Jacobites & inhabit Isfahan will be compelled to sell their very children in order to pay the heavy tax you have imposed on them, unless You take pity on their misfortune”

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Bronze helmet, Assyrian, 8th-7th century BC. Image: Private Collection / Hermann Historica.

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Our modern postal system exists since the 7th century BC.

Focus on Long-Distance Communications in the Assyrian Empire.
https://t.co/GQaQ488DKq

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📷 #PhotoDuMois : Les frères Carrière et Wittner, au couvent de Mossoul, en Iraq. Hiver 1911.

© Dominicains / École biblique et archéologique française

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Neo-Assyrian ‘Divine Procession’ Discovered in Hidden Tunnel, Turkey

https://t.co/N5PBZtynnE

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3,000 y.o. Neo-Assyrian 'divine procession' artwork with Aramaic inscriptions discovered in a subterranean tunnel complex in Southeastern Turkey.

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Weekly Georgian Etymology: მარანი marani 'wine cellar', from Old Armenian մառան maṙan, from Syriac ܡܕܢܐ maddānā, from Akkadian ma- and 𒂁𒆗𒉡dannu, 'storage vat for beer and wine'. Though used since remote antiquity, the actual word is attested only since the 11th century.

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Weekly Georgian Etymology: ხატი xaṭi 'icon, shrine', from Old Georgian ႾႠႲႨ xaṭi 'graven image', from Aramaic ܚܛ ḥaṭṭ 'dig out; carve', perhaps from Akkadian 𒄩𒁕𒂅 ḫaṭāṭu, 'dig out; incise'. Now central to Orthodox worship, the word entered Georgian in pagan times.

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It seems likely this was borrowed from some Semitic language, probably Aramaic. The reason is

a) Aramaic was the literary language of ancient pre-Hellenistic Caucasia
b) Semitic languages do not allow onset clusters
c) some Semitic lgs, e.g. Arabic, languages do not have /p/

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Weekly Georgian Etymology: ლავაში lavaši 'flatbread', from Armenian լավաշ lavaš, from Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܠܘܫܐ lāwāšā flatbread, from Proto-Semitic *lawaṯ 'knead, mix'. Akin to Akkadian 𒇷𒄿𒋙 līšu dough, this Semitic root probably only spread widely in the early 2nd mil AD.

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Detail of the relief.

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Relief depicting Assyrians transporting cedar wood by boats from Lebanon, 8th century B.C. From the Palace of Sargon at Dur Sharrukin, Louvre Museum.

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Etymology of the Taurus mountains:

TAURUS MONS (ὁ Ταῦρος): derived from the Aramaic Tur or Tura, i. e., a high mountain or Alp, a common noun applied to all the high mountains of Asia.

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According to Raoul Schrott (translator of Homer's writings into colloquial German) Homer was a priest or a eunuch scribe from Cilicia who served in the Assyrian court & wrote the Iliad to give Cilicians a national epic.

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Assyrian Relief Panel 883–859 BC.
The beardless male figure depicted on this panel from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) is almost certainly a eunuch.

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In 1882, Albert Socin, a Swiss orientalist who was specialized in the research of Neo-Aramaic, travelled to many Assyrian regions from Urmia, Hakkari to Mosul,... & wrote down many folktales & superstitions in all different dialects.
Text translated about Mount Ararat:

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View of Ararat from Yerevan, 1923 #martirossaryan #saryan