The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

title of t.upsˇar Enu ̄ ma Anu Enlil“scribes of the (astrological series) Enu ̄ ma Anu Enlil,” evidence from Babylon and Uruk cl ...

purifying exorcist to heal the [numerous] people, and the lamentation [singer, for] appeasing the heart, [for] prognostication, ...

he was in fact the main, if not sole, practitioner of medicine. However, the rise of the a ̄sˇipu ̄ tu in the late periods favor ...

disseminating its content beyond a narrow circle of initiates. The standard formula reads: “The initiate may show the initiate; ...

Therefore, even long after its death as a living tool of communication, late Babylonian continued for some time to be transmitte ...

Bottéro, J. ( 1977 ), “Les noms de Marduk, l’écriture, et la logique en Mésopotamie ancienne,” in Ancient Near Eastern Studies i ...

Pearce, L.E. ( 1993 ), “Statements of Purpose: Why the Scribes Wrote,” in M.E. Cohen, D.C. Snell, and D.B. Weisberg, eds, The Ta ...

PART VII INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Babylonia and the Ancient Near Eastern world  ...

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CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR EGYPT AND MESOPOTAMIA  David A. Warburton TWO GREAT LANDS THAT WERE FAR APART T he two greatest civilisat ...

both Egypt and Babylonia – quite aside from some more distant lands. Thus, one can hardly argue that simple logistical constrain ...

that the attitude of the Babylonian king (to which the letter itself is a testimony to a woeful lack of geographical understandi ...

But these ‘Great Kings’ did regularly meet lesser princes when these came to their land for consultations or instructions, and t ...

At the time that the Egyptian advance into Syria began, Assyria and Babylonia were conscious of the importance of Egyptian activ ...

Table 34 .^1 Middle Babylonian period, c. 1600–900 c. BC Actors Campaigns Gifts Bride(s) Embassy Letter(s) to to to to to 1499 M ...

For Assyria, this meant an opening to foreign recognition which would place it in direct conflict with Babylon. Assur-uballit di ...

forces in Syria, and the Assyrians continued the assault on what was left of Mitanni (cf. Hout 1994 ). This opened the way for t ...

A period of peace ensued for the Egyptians, but the eastern Mediterranean was beginning to get restless. The first indications o ...

of Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal – to sweep into Syria. Whereas reaching the Euphrates had been the highpoint of the campaigns of ...

Thus Egyptian independence was a by-product of the end of the Peloponnesian War and its maintenance was dependent upon tensions ...