The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

ancestor cult 270 , 281 Andarig 401 Anshan 24 Anshar 538 antimony 127 Anu 163 , 324 , 342 , 343 , 380 , 382 , 427 , 535 Anu-aba- ...

Benteshina 511 – 12 Berossus 476 Bible 1 , 541 – 59 birds 172 , 175 , 179 , 366 , 370 , 433 Bit-Amukan(n)I 26 – 7 , 293 , 296 Bi ...

cuneiform: tablets 1 , 54 ; writing 95 , 194 , 256 , 274 , 320 , 365 , 369 , 419 , 434 – 45 , 448 , 453 , 455 , 456 , 467 , 473 ...

Emesal 477 emmer wheat 257 Enannatum 253 Enheduanna 336 Enmerkar 143 , 338 , 447 Enmesharra 395 Enmetena 253 , 258 , 279 Enentar ...

gift exchange 272 – 3 , 491 , 511 Gilgamesh 322 , 447 ; Epic of Gilgamesh 6 , 8 , 142 , 172 , 299 , 427 , 447 – 58 , 454 , 475 , ...

irrigation 14 , 15 , 18 , 26 , 40 , 42 – 4 , 56 – 8 , 244 , 252 , 291 , 569 , 570 ; taxes 58 , 187 , 189 , 225 Isaiah 543 – 5 Is ...

leaching 57 – 8 lead 127 leeks 46 lentils 46 , 178 , 257 letters 8 , 27 , 41 – 9 , 95 , 174 , 204 , 268 , 270 , 289 , 294 , 300 ...

milk 143 , 173 , 179 , 228 , 257 millers 18 , 44 , 269 Mitanni 490 – 5 , 498 – 500 , 517 , 520 , 528 Mithridates II 456 monetisa ...

omens 253 , 299 , 303 , 361 – 71 , 373 , 376 , 408 , 474 , 479 , 512 ; astral 364 , 365 ; birth 367 ; dream 368 ; medical 426 ; ...

Royal Cemetery at Ur 128 , 130 – 2 , 134 , 254 ; estates 226 ; inscriptions 20 , 22 , 26 , 74 , 274 , 278 – 9 , 288 , 528 , 550 ...

soil 55 ; cultivation 57 ; improvement 59 – 61 soldiers 18 , 216 , 407 , 569 , 570 sowing 62 spices 46 , 172 , 178 , 180 , 201 s ...

tribes 26 , 296 , 375 tributes 199 , 296 ; tributary economy 6 truffles 46 , 172 Tukulti-Ninurta I 369 , 450 , 494 – 5 , 500 , 5 ...

Zabalam 18 , 268 Zagros mountains 127 , 217 , 497 , 527 , 566 Zarpanitum (Sarpanitum) 339 , 342 – 3 , 349 , 353 Zedekiah 544 , 5 ...

AGES OF LIFE Friedrich Hölderlin You cities of Euphrates! You lanes of Palmyra You forest of column in the plain of the desert, ...