The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

of groundwater. The danger was that if drainage was insufficient and the groundwater level unstable, artificial irrigation could ...

Other plots^9 were held by various agents and dignitaries, perhaps on a temporal basis. The ‘Sovereign’ fields belonging to the ...

The new soil-preparation technology (Hrusˇka 1984 ), employing traction implements such as ards, harrows and sleighs, brought a ...

with a broad furrow-sinker or hoe.^19 Soil preparation by means of ploughing and harrowing ended by manual levelling of the area ...

A NEW MANNER OF SOWING According to iconographic (see Figure 4.3), literary and lexical sources^25 the plough was used not only ...

There is no evidence on the number and positions of field threshing floors, halfway storage facilities and transport areas. The ...

Calmeyer, P. and Wilcke, Cl. 1972 – 1975 ‘Hacke’. Reallexikon der Assyriologie, Vol. 4 , pp. 31 – 38. Berlin and New York: Walte ...

Pettinato, G. 1967 Untersuchungen zur neusumerischen Landwirtschaft I/ 1 – 2. Naples: Istituto Orientale di Napoli. –––– and Wae ...

CHAPTER FIVE URBAN FORM IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BC  Heather D. Baker INTRODUCTION H ere we present an overview of urban form ...

The present state of knowledge Excavations of first millennium remains have been conducted at a number of Babylonian cities: Abu ...

in the first millennium BC, but also for any attempt to place the Babylonian cities in a wider historical context from the point ...

It seems, therefore, that previous scholars either did not realise the very great extent to which these reconstructions were con ...

integrated into the fabric of the city, such as the temples of Ishtar of Agade and Ninurta in Babylon. The larger temples housed ...

such as built drains, or for protecting the bases of walls which were exposed to water. Bitumen was also used as a protection ag ...

which were clearly located within residential areas is also attested, and contracts for the construction of reed structures have ...

and, at Babylon houses, were occasionally equipped with vertical drains leading rainwater down an external waterpipe and into a ...

confronting the king in his role as builder – of temples, palaces and other monumental structures, such as city walls, streets a ...

were merely ‘makeovers’ of what had gone before. Strictly speaking, in order to do so, we would have to have – for each particul ...

with excavated remains, while others can only be approximately located. Van De Mieroop prefers to attribute the reshaping of Bab ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Baker, H.D. (forthcoming). The Urban Landscape in First Millennium BCBabylonia. Gates, C. ( 2003 ). Ancient Cities. ...