The Babylonian World

Voorkant
Gwendolyn Leick
Routledge, 2 jun 2009 - 616 pagina's

The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.

Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and complex civilization, responsible for the invention of the dictionary and laying the foundations of modern science. This book explores all key aspects of the development of this ancient culture, including the ecology of the region and its famously productive agriculture, its political and economic standing, its religious practices, and the achievements of its intelligentsia.

Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying the period.

 

Inhoudsopgave

List of illustrations
The World Of Babylonian Countrysides
Land And Land Use The middle Euphrates valley
Agricultural Techniques
Urban Form In The First Millennium
Architecture In The Old Babylonian Period
Babylonian Seals
Babylonian Sources Of Exotic Raw Materials
The Palace And The Temple In Babylonia
Power Economy And Social Organisation In Babylonia
Arameans And Chaldeans Environment and society
Women And Gender In Babylonia
The Role And Function Of Goddesses In Mesopotamia
Inanna And Ishtar In The Babylonian World
The Babylonian God Marduk
Divination Culture And The Handling Of The Future

Cloth In The Babylonian World
The Babylonian Visual Image
Food And Drink In Babylonia
Economy Ancient Mesopotamia A general outline
The Old Babylonian Economy
Aspects Society And Economy The Later Old Babylonian Period
The Babylonian Economy The First Millennium
The Egibi Family
Social Configurations In Early Dynastic Babylonia C 25002334
Witchcraft Literature In Mesopotamia
Incantations Within Akkadian Medical Texts
The Writing Sending And Reading Of Letters In The Amorite World
Mathematics Metrology And Professional Numeracy
Babylonian Lists Of Words And Signs
Gilgamesh And The Literary Traditions Of Ancient Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian Astral Science
Late Babylonian Intellectual Life
Copyright

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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Achaemenid administrative agricultural Akkadian Anatolia Ancient Mesopotamia Ancient Near East archaeological archives Ashur Ashurbanipal Assyrian Assyriologie attested Babylon Borsippa Bottéro Brinkman British Museum centre century BC Chaldeans Charpin Collon countryside cult cultivation cultural cuneiform cylinder seals deity divine documents dynasty early economic Egypt Egyptian Elam empire Enlil Euphrates evidence excavated Figure Gilgamesh goddess gods Hammurabi Hattusili Hittite household important Inanna incantations inscriptions Institute Iraq irrigation Ishtar Isin Kassite king’s Kudurru land Larsa Leiden letter lists literature Marduk Mari Mesopotamia Middle Babylonian millennium BC Mitanni Neo-Babylonian Nippur Old Babylonian period omens Oriental palace Persian political Press Reallexikon der Assyriologie region reign Renger ritual role royal ruler rural scholars scribal scribes second millennium Selz Sippar slave social society sources Stol Studies Sumer Sumerian Syria tablets temple textiles texts third millennium traditional University Ur III urban Uruk Website women

Over de auteur (2009)

Gwendolyn Leick is presently senior lecturer at Chelsea College of Art and Design. A specialist in the Ancient Near East, she has published extensively on the topic, including The Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture and Who's Who in the Ancient Near East.

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelThe Babylonian World
Routledge Worlds
RedacteurGwendolyn Leick
Editiegeïllustreerd, herdruk
UitgeverRoutledge, 2009
ISBN1134261276, 9781134261277
Lengte616 pagina's
  
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