The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

exemplary of Babylonian visual images. The choice is made not simply on the basis of the commissioner or patron, since we have s ...

nevertheless in the space of the god. We might say then that the justice stele of Hammurabi is a monument that configures the pl ...

The stele of Hammurabi, therefore, constitutes a horizon of juridical certainty, even if it is not a Codex of laws. The text rea ...

— The Babylonian visual image — Figure 10. 3 Lu-Nanna votive portrait, 1792 – 1750 BC. Copper and gold. Height 19. 6 cm (Musée d ...

What is depicted here is the magic of representation itself, as a process of referentiality. This kind of ‘image magic’ was fund ...

The function of the Kudurru is first and foremost administrative, yet it is also religious and historical. It is an administrati ...

— Zainab Bahrani — Figure 10. 4 Kudurru of Nebuchadnezzar I, 1125 – 1104 BC. Limestone, height 65 cm (courtesy of the Trustees o ...

— The Babylonian visual image — Figure 10. 5 Kudurru of Marduk Nadin Ahhe, 1099 – 1082 BC. Limestone, height 61 cm (courtesy of ...

— Zainab Bahrani — Figure 10. 6 Throne room wall of Nebuchadnezzar II, 604 – 562 BC. Glazed brick with relief sculpture (Vordera ...

— The Babylonian visual image — Figure 10. 7 Portrait of a woman, third–second centuries BC. Alabaster, height 46 cm (courtesy o ...

Besides the text that narrates the events of the legal transfer of land and property rights, labels are at times written next to ...

produced a new style, one that we might define as Graeco-Babylonian. One such example is the statue of a woman in the British Mu ...

Frayne, Douglas R. ( 1990 ) The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Early Periods vol. 4 , Old Babylonian Period ( 2003 – 1595 BC) ...

CHAPTER ELEVEN FOOD AND DRINK IN BABYLONIA  Frances Reynolds sˇu ̄ kil akalu sˇiqi kurunnu erisˇti qı ̄sˇi epir u kubbit ana ...

Combining all the available sources still leaves many gaps in terms of time and place for the whole of Babylonia during the peri ...

accordingly he drank milk from the udder as a baby and ate grass and drank water as an adult (George 2003 : 176 – 77 , 544 – 45 ...

give her 10 litres of barley (ûm) and 10 litres of coarse barley flour. There are no ‘spiny’ fishes (ziqtu ̄) here. Send me ‘spi ...

Tablet A (no. 25 ) contains 25 concise recipes for broth, summarised at the end as 21 meat broths (mê sˇı ̄rim) and four vegetab ...

Tablet C (no. 27 ) contains three damaged recipes for the pot cooking of a bird, but.umtu-grain and some kind of meat (Bottéro 1 ...

Among scenes on rectangular moulds are a man holding a stag by its antler with his dog in attendance, a lion attacking a humped ...