College of Archaeology

The doctoral thesis entitled “Speech Style in Cuneiform Texts from the First Millennium BC” was discussed in the Department of Ancient Iraqi Languages ​​at the College of Archeology, University of Mosul, on Wednesday, June 12, 2024 in the hall of Dr. Behnam Abu Al-Souf.
Part of the viva was attended by the Dean of the College of Archaeology, Professor Dr. Yasmine Abdel Karim Muhammad Ali.
The study presented by the student (Senaria Nabil Muhammad Abdullah) aimed to explain the methods of discourse in the cuneiform texts, based on the correspondence records of the New Assyrian state, in addition to the royal writings of the era of the first millennium BC, where it presented various models of methods of administrative, religious, and literary discourse. The study came to a number of conclusions, the most important of which is the diversity of expression methods in speech during the first millennium BC and the impact it had on the recipient by relying on methods of statement such as metonymy, metaphor, simile and other literary methods. The style of speech was distinguished in Assyrian and Babylonian texts in employing many sentences. Short and conventional words that do away with much explanation in order to convey the meaning of the speech at its various levels to the recipient.
The viva committee was chaired by Professor Dr. Ahmed Zidan Khalaf, and the membership of Professor Mahmoud Fares Othman from Tikrit University/ College of Arts, Professor Dr. Othman Ghanem Muhammad, Assistant Professor Dr. Amin Abdel Nafie Amin, Assistant Professor Dr. Nabil Khaled Sheet, and under the supervision and membership of Professor Dr. Safwan Sami Saeed.