The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

CONTENTS



List of illustrations x

List of contributors xiv

1 Introduction 1

Gwendolyn Leick

PART I: LAND AND LAND USE

2 The world of Babylonian countrysides 13

Seth Richardson

3 Land and land use: the middle Euphrates valley 39

Lucia Mori

4 Agricultural techniques 54

Blahoslav Hrusˇka

5 Urban form in the first millennium BC 66

Heather D. Baker

PART II: MATERIAL CULTURE

6 Architecture in the Old Babylonian period 81

Harriet Crawford

7 Babylonian seals 95

Dominique Collon

8 Babylonian sources of exotic raw materials 124

D. T. Potts

9 Cloth in the Babylonian world 141

Irene Good

10 The Babylonian visual image 155
Zainab Bahrani

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