EditorialThe Arameans were an ancient Northwest Semitic Aramaic-speaking tribal confederation who emerged from the region known as Aram (in present-day Syria), in the Late Bronze Age (11th to 8th centuries BC). Basalt relief. Warrior with spear. c. 8th century ...
EditorialThe punishment of Niobe (second plate), 1594, copperplate, sheet: 26.3 x 38.4 cm (trimmed within the edge of the plate), inscribed under the image field: plebs, proceresq [ue] simul sanctam advoluuntur ad aram, effigiemq [ue] De [a, ] sertis gemmantibu...
EditorialBarrekup, King of Aram, worshipping the divine emblem, and an Aramaic inscription describing the construction of the palace. Relief on a basalt orthostat (Late Hittite, 9th BCE) from Sinjirli, Turkey.
EditorialEugene Aram, executed for murder August 1759. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.
EditorialSphinx, with the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt and the false beard of the Pharaohs. Probably part of an entrance gate to an Aramaic temple or palace in Damascus, then capital of Aram. 9th-8th BCE Basalt, H: 80 cm Inv. 30.
EditorialBarrekup, King of Aram, worshipping the divine emblem, and an Aramaic inscription describing the construction of the palace. Relief on a basalt orthostat (Late Hittite, 9th BCE) from Sinjirli, Turkey.