Nippur (city), 72 , 74 , 89 n, 116 , 144 , 162 , 241 , 280 ;
buildings, 180 ; Inanna Temple, 162 , 163 ;
residential districts, 166 ; Sacred Marriage, 238 ,
239 ; settlement patterns, 136 , 137 , 140 , 142 ,
151 – 2
Nissen, H.-J., 56 , 74 , 79 , 114 , 136 , 158
nominative-accusative language system, 96
non-finite verbal forms, 108
Northern Palace, Tell Asmar, 408
north Mesopotamia, third millennium, 462 – 76 ;
agro-pastoral economy, 470 – 1 ; chronology and
cultural labels, 463 ; climate change, 471 ;
material culture, 467 – 9 ; North of Sumer,
462 – 3 ; site morphology and architecture,
466 – 7 ; site-size hierarchy and city-states, 465 ;
surveys and settlement, 464 – 5 ; tablets and
administration, 469 – 70
nouns: compound, 105 – 6 ; noun phrases, 105 ,
106 – 7 , 108
nudity: as fashion, 392 , 393 ; libations, 233
numbers, 103
numeracy, third millennium BC, 310 – 11
Nur-Adad palace, Larsa, 171
Oates, J., 38
Ochsenschlager, E., 345 – 6 , 354 , 405 , 406
Old Babylonian period (c. 2004 – 1595 BC), 23 , 25 ,
33 , 113 , 116 ; archaeological sites, 41 ; cities,
169 – 70 ; Early (Isin-Larsa) period (c. 2004 – 1763
BC), 116 , 143 , 348 , 592 – 3 ; fashion in, 378 , 386 ;
mathematics, 308 – 10 ; numeracy and scribal
training, 310 ; politics and triumph of Babylon
(c. 1850 – 1500 ), 145 – 7 ; regional abandonment,
146 ; school texts, 203 ; scribes, 302 – 3 , 435 ;
settlement patterns (Sumer and Akkad), 131 , 135
Oman/Oman Peninsula, 581 , 582 , 595 , 607 , 612 ;
and copper trade, 579 – 83 ; early trading
relations, organization and logistics, 589 , 590 ;
Jemdet Nasr period, interactions with, 583 – 4 ,
585 ; trading relations (ED III period), 591
Orontes River, 478
Oval temples, 192 ; Khafajah city, Diyala region,
163 , 164 , 189 , 190 , 191 , 192
Oxus Civilization, 572 , 573
Pakistan, Harappan Civilization, 600 , 603 – 6 , 605 ,
606
palaces: Beydar, 467 ; definition, 179 – 80 ;
Ebla/Ebla Palace G archives, 455 , 500 , 502 – 4 ,
544 , 545 , 548 , 552 ; in Kish, 164 , 165 , 168 , 467 ; in
Mari, 525 – 6 , 531 – 2 , 533 , 534 , 535 , 536 ; Nara ̄m
Sîn, Brak, 456 ; Northern, Tell Asmar, 408 ;
Nur-Adad, Larsa, 171 ; physical remains, 164 ,
165 , 168 ; see alsotemples
paleoclimatic data, 70
palm vase libation, 230 , 231 , 232 – 3
Panofsky, E., 205
Parahshum, Addadian, 571 – 2
Parpola, S., 97
pastoralism, 395
patronage, images of, 215 – 16 , 217 , 218
Pemberton, W., 34
Persian Gulf, 19 , 35 , 69 , 70 , 329 , 561 ; see alsoGulf,
the
personal pronouns, 102
phonology, 101 – 2
phrases, noun, 105 , 106 – 7 , 108
physical geography, 13 – 29
Piedmont style, seals, 327 , 468
Piesinger, C.M., 587
Pinnock, F., 538 – 55
Pittman, H., 319 – 41 , 612
place notation, 316 n
Plano-Convex Building, 169 , 175 n, 347 – 8
Pleistocene epoch, 13 , 22 , 38
Plio-Pleistocene Wadi Batin fluvial cone, 14
plucking of wool, 403 – 4
political unification, initial ( 2600 – 2100 BC),
141 – 3
Pollock, S., 73 , 352 , 354 , 431 n
Pomponio, F., 396 , 398 , 409
Pongratz-Leisten, B., 227
Porada, E., 122
ports and harbors, Early Dynastic period, 23 – 7
positional notation, 316 n
Postgate, J.N., 34 , 38 , 89 n
pottery, 450 , 451 , 467 , 469 , 563 , 564 , 613 , 629
Potts, D., 86 , 395 , 572 , 573 , 587 – 8 , 614
Potts, T., 455
Pournelle, J.R., 13 – 29 , 37 , 38
Powell, M.A., 34 , 46 , 306 , 315
Poyck, A.P.G., 34 , 49 , 63
Predynastic Egypt, 621 – 2 , 626
prefixes, 108 – 9
prehistory, 112 ; end of, 68 – 94
Prentice, R., 408 , 412
pre-Sargonic period, 116 , 309
priest-king, 326 , 327
Primitive Democracy, 285 – 7
princesses, 202 , 251 – 2 ; see alsokings and queens;
royalty, images of
pronominal prefixes, 108 – 9–– Index ––