soil 55 ; cultivation 57 ; improvement
59 – 61
soldiers 18 , 216 , 407 , 569 , 570
sowing 62
spices 46 , 172 , 178 , 180 , 201
spinning 141 , 146
stairways 71 , 85
stamp seals 89 , 120
Standard Babylonian 473 , 481
staples 206 , 231 , 233 , 257 , 326 , 362
‘Stele of Vultures’ 20 , 254
steppes 26 , 39 , 55 , 172 , 192 , 225 , 291 ,
570
stones 130 – 3 , 201 , 272 ; precious 5 , 187 ,
239
store rooms 71 – 2 , 87 , 100 , 323
storms 55
subsistence agriculture 201 , 208 , 217
Sultantepe see Harran
Sumer 322 , 332 , 335 , 448
Sumeria: language 2 , 54 , 214 , 281 , 374 ,
389 , 437 , 438 , 440 , 455 , 482 , 512 ;
literature 18 , 55 , 142 – 3 , 319 , 421 , 422 ,
437 , 447 – 8 , 450 , 451 , 453 , 460
Sumu-abum 2
Sumu-el 29
Sumu-la-el 203 , 204 , 207
Suppiluliuma I 493 – 4 , 501 , 505 – 7
surplus, markets 193 , 199 , 200
Susa 85 , 108 , 129 , 162 , 519 , 563 , 566 ,
569 , 570 , 572
Suteans 289
‘sweet water sea’ 55
symbols of gods 268 , 320 , 333
‘Synchronistic History’ 528 – 31 , 529 ,
530
syncretism 343 , 349 , 537
Syria 9 , 106 , 487 – 501 , 503 – 13 , 528 ,
543
syrup 178 , 180
Tablets of Destiny 321 , 352 , 473
tamarisk 47 , 133
Tannurovens 175
Taqish-Gula 477
Taurus mountains 42
Tawananna 505 – 7
tax farming 206 , 237
Telepinu 505
Tell Abraq 128
Tell Afar 85
Tell al-Ubaid 125
Tell Ashara 520
Tell Brak 129 , 257
Tell Hammam 70
Tell Hariri seeMari
Tell Harmal 83 , 89
Tell Imlihiye 519 , 520
Tell Leilan see Shubat-Enlil
Tell Rimah 85 , 86 , 87 – 9 , 88 , 535
Tell Sifr see Kutalla
Tell Yelkhi 257
temples 7 , 23 , 69 – 70 , 74 , 84 – 91 , 200 , 226 ,
228 – 9 , 233 , 251 , 254 , 479 , 482 , 533 ,
535 ; estates 59 , 226 ; households 6 ,
189 – 90 , 205
Tepe Gawra 259
Tepe Yahya 132
Terqa 45 , 48 , 212 , 535
textiles 5 , 127 , 128 , 141 , 195 , 231 , 239 ,
272 , 273 , 303 ; production 151 , 194 ,
228 , 308
Third Dynasty of Ur 7 , 95 , 127 , 134 , 190 ,
195 , 278 , 281 , 319 – 30 , 527
threshing 45 , 63
Tiamat 351 – 2 , 375
Tiglath-pileser I 437 , 450 , 495 , 501 ,
530
Tiglath-pileser II 116
Tiglath-pileser III 294 , 295 , 296 , 297 ,
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Tigris 2 , 15 , 54 , 56 , 82 , 172 , 289 – 93
Til Barsip 150
timber 133 – 4 , 195 , 253
tin 128 , 187 , 195 , 213 , 272
toilets 71 – 2
tombs 92
tools 49 , 84 , 125 , 125 , 127 , 193 – 4
tortoise shell 134
traction, animals 58
trade 2 , 5 , 6 , 18 , 83 , 85 , 143 , 151 , 188 ,
191 , 212 , 231 , 257 , 273 , 282 , 498 , 516 ,
567 ; marketless 192 ; riverborne 212 ;
routes 106 , 296
transportation 194 , 208 , 254 ; of goods
194
treaties 253 , 495 , 509 , 511 , 529 , 530 ,
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