The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

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THE BABYLONIAN WORLD  As the layers of the foundations of modern science and mathematics and the builders of a towering, monu ...

THE ROUTLEDGE WORLDS THE GREEK WORLD Edited by Anton Powell THE ROMAN WORLD Edited by John Wacher THE BIBLICAL WORLD Edited by J ...

THE BABYLONIAN WORLD  Edited by Gwendolyn Leick ...

First published 2007 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Ca ...

Lebensalter* Ihr Städte des Euphrats! Ihr Gassen von Palmyra! Ihr Säulenwälder in der Eb’ne der Wüste, Was seid ihr? Euch hat di ...

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CONTENTS  List of illustrations x List of contributors xiv 1 Introduction 1 Gwendolyn Leick PART I: LAND AND LAND USE 2 The w ...

11 Food and drink in Babylonia 171 Frances Reynolds PART III: ECONOMIC LIFE 12 Economy of ancient Mesopotamia: a general outline ...

PART VI: INTELLECTUAL LIFE: CUNEIFORM WRITING AND LEARNING 27 Incantations within Akkadian medical texts 389 M. J. Geller 28 The ...

ILLUSTRATIONS  FIGURES 1 Sustaining areas of Babylonian settlements 21 1 The middle Euphrates valley today, from the ruins o ...

7. 12 Warrior god; priest on dais with cup and bucket; warrior god; — Illustrations — ...

— Illustrations — - on fallen enemy warrior god brandishing sword, whirling mace and treading - offering; robed god 7 13 The ...

1 The restored ramparts of the Hittite capital Hattusa 504 1 Tablet containing the so-called ‘Synchronistic History’ 529 2 Cent ...

CONTRIBUTORS  Tzvi Abuschis Rose B. and Joseph Cohen Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Religion at Brandeis U ...

history and material culture of Babylonia and Assyria in the first millennium BC. She is currently working on a monograph on The ...

Dominique Collonhas recently retired from the British Museum where she was a curator in the Department of the Ancient Near East ...

Anne Goddeerisis based at the University of Leuven and is a specialist in economic texts from the Old Babylonian period. Her boo ...

Frans van Koppenis a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Leiden. His main interest is the second millennium BC. Amélie Kuhrtis ...

D. T. Pottswas educated at Harvard and the Free University of Berlin and is Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Arch ...