About the Journal
JAOS (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the AOS. The first volume (1843-49) set the tone for all time in the broad scope of subject matter and the solidity of its scholarship. It included studies of Arab music, of Persian cuneiform, and of Buddhism in India, and brought to a wide audience the then novel theories of Pierre E. Du Ponceau, assailing the doctrine of the “ideograp
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Vol. 144 No. 4 (2024): JAOS
Published: 2024-12-05
Front Matter
Front Matter
Abstract 50 | PDF Downloads 19Articles
Philology: Past, Present, and Prospects (Presidential Address)
Abstract 44 | PDF Downloads 5Page 711–737
Sacrilegious Theft in First-Millennium BCE Babylonia
Abstract 51 | PDF Downloads 1Page 739–763
The Indian Frontier in the Samanid Period Based on a New Source
Abstract 38 | PDF Downloads 1Page 765–787
Customs Duty Evasion and Enforcement in the Arthaśāstra
Abstract 40 | PDF Downloads 2Page 789–805
The First Hundred Light Years
Abstract 55 | PDF Downloads 2Page 807–831
Layers of Beauty
Abstract 52 | PDF Downloads 2Page 833–854
Intra-Regional Alliances
Abstract 41 | PDF Downloads 2Page 855–878
Brief Communications
The Seljuk Sultan Kay Kāʾūs I and the Assassins
Abstract 62 | PDF Downloads 0Page 879–884
Reviews
Review of Ramesses II, Egypt’s Ultimate Pharaoh. By Peter J. Brand
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Review of Die Sprache der königlichen Stelen der 18. Dynastie bis einschließlich Amenophis III
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Review of Die Ostraka der frühen 18. Dynastie aus Deir el-Bahri und dem Asasif. By Malte Römer
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Review of Schrift und Sprache in Nubien: Studien zum Napatanischen, Meroitischen und Altnubischen. By Francis Breyer
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Review of The Iberian Qur’an: From the Middle Ages to Modern Times. Edited by Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard A. Wiegers
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Review of Harmonizing Differences: A History of Distinctions Literature in Islamic Law. By Elias G . Saba
Abstract 39 | PDF Downloads 1Page 899–901
Review of A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane. By Shivan Mahendrarajah
Abstract 37 | PDF Downloads 2Page 902–904
Review of The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion. By Nathan McGovern
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Review of Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China. By Thomas J. Mazanec
Abstract 61 | PDF Downloads 4Page 910–912
Review of The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century. By Alister D. Inglis
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Review of Asie centrale 300–850: Des routes et des royaumes. By Étienne de la Vaissière
Abstract 39 | PDF Downloads 2Page 915–917
Review of Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China. By Jeffery Moser
Abstract 45 | PDF Downloads 4Page 918–919
Brief Reviews
Review of The Hittites. By Damien Stone
Abstract 38 | PDF Downloads 2Page 920
Review of Historic Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Timbuktu to Zanzibar. By Stéphane Pradines
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