The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

The spelling of the Ugaritic words in the alphabetic as well as the syllabic cuneiform is a major evidence for the ‘realization’ ...

KASSITE BABYLONIAN GATEWAY The city Dur-Kurigalzu (see below) is generally considered as the main centre of the Kassite kingdom. ...

Nippur (modern Nuffar – south-east of Babylon on the eastern branch of the Euphrates), with the temple of Enlil, had been an imp ...

Horses and chariots Horses feature prominently in the Kassite texts (Balkan 1954 : 11 – 40 ). Horses and chariots are among the ...

such as Ugarit and Byblos on the eastern Mediterranean coastline acted as mediators for all four directions. NOTES 1 The French ...

16 The sites on the Middle Euphrates reflecting Kassite traces in Babylonia are Terqa, in the Hamrin (Tell Mohammed, Tell Imlihi ...

Brown, S. ( 1991 ) ‘Lapis lazuli and its sources in ancient West/ern Asia’, Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamia Stu ...

Kelly, K. ( 1976 ) ‘Dendritic central-place systems and the regional organization of Navajo trading posts’, in C. Smith (ed.), R ...

–––– and Vidale, M. ( 1990 ) ‘ 4 th millennium BClapis lazuli working at Mehrgarh, Pakistan’, Paléorient, 16 / 2 : 89 – 99. Vanc ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN LOOKING DOWN THE TIGRIS The interrelations between Assyria and Babylonia  Hannes D. Galter INTRODUCTION ...

2000 BCE, the south saw the struggle for supremacy between the various Babylonian cities, which finally led to the rise of Babyl ...

Burnaburiash II (c. 1379 – 1347 ) tried to interfere with a letter by himself claiming that the Assyrians were his vassals. In r ...

The reasons for his Babylonian war are not totally clear. It may have been the traditional good relations between Babylonians an ...

who usurped the throne of Babylon with Assyrian help. This treaty was sealed by a marriage between Ashur-bel-kala and Adad-apla- ...

especially to Marduk and Nabû and granted the cities political and economic privileges, including freedom from certain taxes and ...

Like his predecessors, Sennacherib ( 704 – 681 ) was personally king of Babylon at the beginning of his reign. But the unexpecte ...

his brother, but failed. A four-year war followed. In 648 BCEBabylon was taken and pillaged after a siege of over two years, in ...

cuneiform script and through dialects of the same Akkadian language, their views of each other were quite different (Machinist 1 ...

Mesopotamia. Most innovations did not survive the crisis at the end of Samsi-Addu’s reign. Others were kept and mixed with Assyr ...

RELIGION The thoughts outlined above can also be seen in the field of religion. Neither Babylon nor Ashur played an important ro ...