ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURES- 1 Sustaining areas of Babylonian settlements 21
- 1 The middle Euphrates valley today, from the ruins of
Doura Europos 40 - 2 A map of the middle Euphrates valley showing the different
cultivated zones 43 - 1 Archaic sign for ‘ard’, ‘farmer’ and ‘to plough’ 55
- 2 Soil preparation with hoes 57
- 3 Seal impression showing animal traction, working team and
seeding plough 61 - 1 Plan of Nippur, c. 1500 BC 75
- 1 A hypothetical reconstruction of the temple at Tell Rimah 85
- 2 Plan of the temple at Tell Rimah 86
- 3 ‘Barley sugar’ pillars at Tell Rimah 88
- 1 Warrior king, Lama and small naked woman 96
- 2 Lama, the warrior king and the goddess Ishtar 96
- 3 Representations of the Lama goddess 97
- 4 Presentation scene before seated king 98
- 5 Impressions of seals, probably of the seventeenth century BC,
showing the use of cutting wheel and drill 98 - 6 Envelope fragment from Sippar with impressions of a Babylonian
presentation scene, and a seal combining Babylonian and Syrian
motifs 99 - 7 Impression of purkulluseal 100
- 8 Nude hero fighting bull-man; nude hero fighting lion; naked
woman; Ishtar; filling motifs 101 - 9 Four winds; small storm god on lion-dragon; small priest;
filling motifs 102 - 10 Presentation scene before seated goddess 102
- 11 Lama; king with offering; the sun god Shamash; lightning
fork of the storm god Adad 103
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