Race and ethnicity in Mesopotamian antiquity 1

Bahrani, Zainab

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“…The first reference of traditional medicinal plant use, dates back to 4000 years ago, where it was depicted on a Sumerian clay table that records remedies for various diseases (Kong et al, 2003). Desert truffles have been documented as medicinal food in Chinese, Greek and Egyptian civilization, and were called the miracle of nature in Mesopotamia (Wang and Marcone, 2011, Badalyan, 2012, Patel, 2012, Bahrani, 2006). Truffle is one of the oldest forms of food, it has been used as a meat substitute and consumed in large quantities due to their highly delicious taste and musky aroma (Mandeel and Al-laith, 2007, Al-Shabibi et al, 1982, Dundar et al, 2012).…”

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Antioxidant, anticancer, apoptosis properties and chemical composition of black truffle Terfezia claveryi

Dahham

Al-Rawi

Ibrahim

et al. 2018

Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences

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Desert truffles are seasonal and important edible fungi that grow wild in many countries around the world. Truffles are natural food sources that have significant compositions. In this work, the antioxidant, chemical composition, anticancer, and antiangiogenesis properties of the Terfezia claveryi truffle were investigated. Solvent extractions of the T. claveryi were evaluated for antioxidant activities using (DPPH, FRAP and ABTS methods). The extracts cytotoxicity on the cancer cell lines (HT29, MCF-7, PC3 and U-87 MG) was determined by MTT assay, while the anti-angiogenic efficacy was tested using ex-vivo assay. All extracts showed moderate anticancer activities against all cancer cells (p < 0.05). The hexane extract inhibited the brain cell line (U-87 MG) with an IC50 of 50 μg/ml and significantly promoted cell apoptosis through the mitochondrial pathway and DNA fragmentation p < 0.001. The ethanol extract demonstrated potent antioxidants; DPPH, FRAP, and ABTS with an IC50 value of 52, 48.5 and 64.7 μg/ml, respectively. In addition, the hexane and ethyl acetate extract significantly (p < 0.001) inhibited the sprouting of microvessels by 100% and 81.2%, at 100 μg/ml, respectively. The GC analysis of the most active extract (hexane) showed the presence of several potent phytochemicals such as stigmasterol, beta-Sitosterol, squalene, lupeol, octadecadienoic acid, and oleic acid.

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Antioxidant, anticancer, apoptosis properties and chemical composition of black truffle Terfezia claveryi

Dahham

Al-Rawi

Ibrahim

et al. 2018

Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences

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“…Were they racists? One should be careful to apply racial terms to the ancient world (Bahrani, 2006;Smith, 2003;OEAE, 2001:27ff., 111ff.). As shown by the African American scholar Snowden (1983;, this was a time Before color prejudice.…”

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“…Sundermeier (1992); Cartledge (1993); also Coleman & Walz (1997)); for Mesopotamia see Bahrani (2006); Haas (1980); Pongratz-Leisten (2001) and Van Soldt, Kalvelagen & Katz (2005). 4 For an overview of the history of pharaonic Egypt cf.…”

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Ancient Egypt and the Other

Cornelius

2013

Scriptura

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“…Šamaššuma-ukīn is then an ethnic minority in Babylonia, while his political identity becomes "Babylonian," as does his royal self-presentation. Studies of ethnicity in the ancient Near East and Assyrian ethnicity in particular include Emberling and Yoffee 1999, Alon, Gruenwald, and Singer 1994, Bahrani 2006, Emberling 1997, Wäfler 1975, Machinist 1993, Van Soldt 2005, Parpola 2004b. For an overview of foreigners in cuneiform sources from the third through the first millennium, see Beckman 2013 and for Aramaean and Chaldean ethnicity in Babylon, see Fales 2011.…”

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Going Native: Šamaš-Šuma-Ukīn, Assyrian King of Babylon

Zaia¹

2019

Iraq

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Šamaš-šuma-ukīn is a unique case in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: he was a member of the Assyrian royal family who was installed as king of Babylonia but never of Assyria. Previous Assyrian rulers who had control over Babylonia were recognized as kings of both polities, but Šamaš-šuma-ukīn's father, Esarhaddon, had decided to split the empire between two of his sons, giving Ashurbanipal kingship over Assyria and Šamaš-šuma-ukīn the throne of Babylonia. As a result, Šamaš-šuma-ukīn is an intriguing case-study for how political, familial, and cultural identities were constructed in texts and interacted with each other as part of royal self-presentation. This paper shows that, despite Šamaš-šuma-ukīn's familial and cultural identity as an Assyrian, he presents himself as a quintessentially Babylonian king to a greater extent than any of his predecessors. To do so successfully, Šamaš-šuma-ukīn uses Babylonian motifs and titles while ignoring the Assyrian tropes his brother Ashurbanipal retains even in his Babylonian royal inscriptions.

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Race and ethnicity in Mesopotamian antiquity 1

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Antioxidant, anticancer, apoptosis properties and chemical composition of black truffle Terfezia claveryi

Antioxidant, anticancer, apoptosis properties and chemical composition of black truffle Terfezia claveryi

Ancient Egypt and the Other

Going Native: Šamaš-Šuma-Ukīn, Assyrian King of Babylon

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