The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

Eleanor Robson’s work focuses on questions of numeracy and literacy in ancient Iraq. Her publications include Mesopotamian Mathe ...

stratigraphy. The most recent books are Macroeconomics from the Beginning and Archaeological Stratigraphy: A Near Eastern Approa ...

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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION  Gwendolyn Leick I n the book of Genesis (XI, 9 ) the etymology of ‘Babel’ is given as ‘confusion’, ...

BABYLONIA: PART OF MESOPOTAMIA Babylonia can be defined geographically as the southern half of Mesopotamia, beginning where the ...

mid-second millennium, Babylonian became the international language of diplomacy, utilized by the court scribes of all major pow ...

debates and issues. Some authors interpreted their topic in a manner that conveyed their ‘take’ on the subject within an academi ...

that ‘belonged’, in one way or another, to a particular city. Heather Baker’s chapter concentrates on Babylonian cities during t ...

shows the huge range of cuneiform writing devoted to the subject, which ranges from ration allocations, over lexical lists of fo ...

persisted in the Babylonian world. Walther Sallaberger explains the workings of the two most important Babylonian institutions, ...

of human life to supernatural interference. They were also long used to detailed observation of the world, from the movement of ...

who, at different periods of history, were committing the narrative to writing. David Brown’s account of Babylonian astronomy ch ...

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PART I LAND AND LAND USE  ...

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CHAPTER TWO THE WORLD OF BABYLONIAN COUNTRYSIDES^1  Seth Richardson The existence of an area of free land, its continuous rec ...

society was ninety percent non-urban. The duty of reporting on this thing, “the countryside,” is normally considered to be there ...

A SURVEY OF VILLAGE SETTLEMENT Early foundations and areas The earliest settlements in Lower Mesopotamia (c. 6000 BC) already po ...

those  2 hectares ( 160 meters diameter), with about fifty dwellings and a ± 250 - person population.^17 These places are diffi ...

In the Uruk region, thirty-five of fifty-three villages identifiable in the Early Uruk were still occupied in the Late Uruk (± 5 ...