Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ancient Near East/Archive 4

Arabia and Ancient Yemen
Is Yemen included in this wikiproject since Yemen is part of what is called the Middle East? What about other ancient Arabian civilisations such as Nabateans,Dilmun, Thamudic..etc.--Aziz1005 14:33, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * should be. This falls all under Pre-Islamic Arabia, which doesn't have a dedicated WikiProject and should be considered as falling within the scope of this one. For times later than the 6th century BC, the applicable category is probably Category:History of the Middle East, and not Category:Ancient Near East any more. dab (𒁳) 11:08, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Thorkild Jacobsen
I noticed that wiki had no article for Thorkild Jacobsen and subsequently added one. However, I don't know nearly enough about him (or about Assyriology in general) to make it a good article, so when I discovered this wikiproject I thought I'd mention the stub here! So... mentioned. -Elizabennet | talk 20:32, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Incense Road
The article would benefit if someone versed in the history of the Near East would rate the article on the importance scale. Best Wishes, Havelock the Dane  21:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Banana languages
Can this be verified please, sounds like a joke at the moment. Enlil Ninlil 06:10, 18 September 2007 (UTC) I am new at this. Is there any way to move or copy this thread to the Banana Languages stub? There's nothing on its talk page. Thanks.--Mother of Otherness 19:04, 3 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mother of Otherness (talk • contribs)
 * Sorry for jumping in so late. "Banana" has become the technical term in the field for names of the CVCVCV pattern (where the vowel remains the same throughout), and for which there doesn't seem to be any Sumerian etymology.  In fact, such names frequently belong to foreigners, leading to the assumption that they are foreign words from a language we either don't know at all, or know very little about.  I seem to recall that Gelb et al. derived the term from a guy named Banana.  I'm not sure if it's this same guy, but in Ur III sources a Banana from Marhashi (somewhere in present-day Iran, east of the Zagros mountains) is attested 5 times, from Shu-Suen 03 to Ibbi-Suen 01.--Mother of Otherness 18:35, 3 August 2009 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mother of Otherness (talk • contribs)
 * Two more things: the term as it's been adopted is "Banana names", not "banana languages", and, although one might think so at first glance, Inana does NOT qualify as a Banana name. Such names are always a spelled out syllabically, for example, Banana is written with 3 signs, Ba+na+na, whereas Inana is a logogram, written with 1 sign, MUSH3 which, when preceded by the god-determinative, tells one to read it "Inana".

WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/GeneralxHotlist
Can someone take a look at this list:

WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/GeneralxHotlist

As you can see the missing articles are:

-- Vedranf 20:31, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Sumerian art - Sumerian architecture
 * Babylonian art - Babylonian architecture
 * Assyrian art - Assyrian architecture
 * Phoenician art - Phoenician architecture
 * Hittite art - Hittite architecture

collaboration of the history projects
Hi, I'm newly appointed coordinator of the WikiProject History. I was coordinator of the WikiProject Military History before. My scope is to improve the cooperation among the different history projects andf use the synergy of a common infrastructure to improve article quality. One idea would be to merge small project into a larger wikiproject history with a common infrastructure and the small projects continuing independently as task forces of this project. What are your suggestions? Greetings Wandalstouring 15:08, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Help requested
Anybody here familiar with scholarly disputes related to Qumran]? If so, help will be much appreciated at [[Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour. May thanks. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 23:29, 25 November 2007 (UTC)