The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

— Dominique Collon — Figure 7. 32 Winged hero between bird-griffins. Inscribed ‘(May the) god Nabu preserve life, grant health’. ...

— Babylonian seals — Figure 7. 34 Priest with cup and bucket before offering table and altars with symbols. Blue chalcedony. 3. ...

Uruk (Ehrenberg 1999 ). However, sealed documents are in a minority, accounting for only two per cent at Uruk. The main subject ...

mostly corroded in the saline environment of Babylonia or been melted down for reuse. An interesting series of impressions on al ...

Bregstein, L. B. 1993 : Seal Use in Fifth Century B.C. Nippur, Iraq: A Study of Seal Selection and Sealing Practices in the Mura ...

MacGinnis, J. 1995 : Letter Orders from Sippar and the Administration of the Ebabbara in the Late Babylonian Period, Poznan. Mat ...

CHAPTER EIGHT BABYLONIAN SOURCES OF EXOTIC RAW MATERIALS  D. T. Potts INTRODUCTION B elonging to another country, foreign, al ...

north-eastern Iraq, which may or may not have been worked, the earliest copper objects in Mesopotamia are a cold-hammered awl fr ...

Where did the copper come from? Geological and archaeo-metallurgical surveys in Anatolia (especially around Ergani Maden in what ...

opposite in what is today the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia,^1 Dilmun was an emporium which transhipped copper from further e ...

that the area had a flourishing local industry. It says nothing about its role as a regular supplier of copper to Mesopotamia. S ...

of considerable quantities of gold. At Sippar, the craftsman most frequently mentioned in cuneiform sources was the kutimmum, a ...

as such must have been relatively abundant. During the Kassite period, silver seems to have functioned as a standard in private ...

hands of craftsmen who produced for a less elite clientele) and that emulation of high status individuals by those of lower stat ...

Non-precious (calcite/alabaster, chlorite) Of the non-precious stones, calcite and its finer, veined variant commonly called ala ...

as was certainly the case with softstone and alabaster vessels in the Greco-Roman era (their properties for doing so were extoll ...

Ivory Although very few ivory objects have been excavated on archaeological sites in Mesopo- tamia, their presence – probably al ...

Hardened resins Two hard resins, originating in opposite ends of the Old World, have been found in Mesopotamia. Beads of Baltic ...

found at Uruk and Babylon, the majority of which date to the Neo-Babylonian period (Ziegler 1942 : 230 – 231 ). CONCLUSION This ...

2 Sumerian Magan, Akkadian Makkan, Old Persian Maka, and Elamite Makkashall refer to the same place. The trilingual Achaemenid r ...