The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

Abi-eshuh 131 , 217
Abi-sare 24
Abu Qubur 66
Abu Salabikh 146 , 152 , 256 , 257 , 433 ,
448
Achaemenid period 236 , 343 , 476 , 481 ,
562 – 73
acrobats 273 , 341
Adab 254 , 448
Adad 103 , 104 , 103 , 105 , 112 , 163 , 168 ,
476 , 478 , 535
Adad-apla-iddina 531
Adad-Guppi 305
Adad-nirari I 509 , 530
Adad-nirari III 297 , 529 , 531
Adad-shuma-usur 530
Adapa 447 , 450 , 476
administration 4 , 44 , 82 , 95 , 199 , 201 ,
226 , 232 , 253 , 434
adoption 48 , 268 , 307 , 434
adultery 302
agate 131
agriculture 2 , 4 , 6 , 39 – 49 , 54 – 63 , 187 ,
191 , 219 , 225 , 295 , 527
Akhenaton seeAmenophis IV
Akhetaten seeAmarna
Akitu festival (Babylonian New Year
festival) 269 , 351 , 356 , 513 , 531 , 536 ,
538
Akkad (also Agade) 69 , 70 , 127 , 214 , 322 ,
332 , 335 , 542

Akkadian: language 23 , 373 , 389 , 400 – 1 ,

404 , 421 , 437 , 440 , 448 , 453 , 481 , 489 ,

512 , 515 , 518 , 527 , 535 ; literature 20 ,

447 ; state 22 – 3

Akshak 22

alabaster 132 , 169

Alalakh 129 , 490 – 1 ,

Aleppo 211 , 221 , 402 , 407 , 490 , 498 , 503 ,

504

Alexander the Great 3 , 168 , 456 , 487 , 499 ,

563 , 569

Allatum 324

alluvial plains 15 , 39 , 54 , 187 , 225 , 268 ,

292 , 527

Almanacs 463 – 5

alum 231

Amarna 9 , 437 , 488 , 517 ; tablets 9 , 490 ,

518 , 521

amber 135

Amenophis II 490 , 493 , 498

Amenophis III 494

Amenophis IV 488 , 493 , 509 , 528

Ammi-ditana 25

Ammi-saduqa 25 , 99 , 205 , 212 , 213 , 285

Amorite 400 – 14 ; kings 2 , 95 , 203 ;

language 2 , 23 ; tribes 23 , 215 , 279 ,

400 – 14 , 527

Amurru 105 , 160 , 161

An 56 , 332

Anatolia 126 , 129 , 145 , 151 , 213 , 282 ,

370 , 437 , 487 , 490 , 503 – 13 , 528

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