Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World

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stonemasonry craft s 293, 294 inventions 604 stone panel mining, quarrying, and salt making 744f scandals and corruption 912 f stone sculpture 88, 91, 120 stone tools 564 stone vessels 286 stone walls 144 stools 563, 568 storage and preservation 1061–1071 Africa 1062–1063 agriculture 28 Americas 1070–1071 Asia and the Pacifi c 1065– 1066 Egypt 1063–1064 Europe 1066–1067 Greece 1067–1069 Middle East 1064–1065 Rome 1069–1070 storehouses 1063–1065 “Story of Sinuhe, Th e” death and burial practices 314 literature 646 migration and population movements 697–698 storytelling drama and theater 328, 333 literature 639 Strabo architecture 65 children 190 climate and geography 269–270 government organization 509 migration and population movements 709 storage and preservation 1063 strategos 529 strategy military 727 war and conquest 1122, 1138, 1150 Strato 938 streets. See also roads and bridges cities 218, 223, 229 illumination 591 string 762, 765–768, 771 Structure EVII (Mayan edi- fi ce) 85 stucco 160 stupas architecture 68–69 art 102 building techniques and materials 155–156 sacred sites 902

subligaculum 281 sub-Saharan Africa agriculture 17–18 architecture 53 economy 342, 343, 345 empires and dynasties 388 government organization 511 migration and population movements 692 science 923 subsistence (economic level) 341, 359, 360 subsistence diet 575 succession government organization 515 resistance and dissent 873 Sudra caste craft s 289 economy 358 Suetonius gender structures and roles 502 sports and recreation 1059–1060 suicide 320 Sumatra 250 Sumer agriculture 28–29 architecture 60–64 art 98 astronomy 126 borders and frontiers 142 calendars and clocks 167 clothing and footwear 276 economy 350–352 education 379, 380 exploration 438 language 612 migration and population movements 699 military 728 mining, quarrying, and salt making 744 numbers and counting 800 science 929 settlement patterns 966 social organization 1019 t ra nspor tat ion 1113–1114 war and conquest 1122 weaponry and armor 1164 writing 1185–1186 Sumerian cuneiform writing 597 Sumerian language 496 sumpweed 48 sun 584, 585 sundials astronomy 132 calendars and clocks 164– 165, 170 –172 sun drying 174 sunfl owers 48 Sun Gate 386

sunlight management 584– 586 Sun Temple 584 Sun Tzu military 737–738 war and conquest 1138 Sun Wagon 108–109 sun worship 900 supernatural phenomena 946 supernovae 128 superstition 921 surfi ng 1052 surgery health and disease 549, 552 science 936, 944 survey archaeology 36 surveying, land 1174–1175 sutras 625 Swahili Coast 205 Swazi tribe 494 sweat houses 556 Sweet Track inventions 600 roads and bridges 888 swimming 1049 swineherds 257 swords inventions 599 military 734 weaponry and armor 1163, 116 4, 1165f, 1166, 1167 sykophantes 629 symbolic writing 386 symbolism art 97–98 religion and cosmology 833 Symmachus, Quintus Aure- lius 880, 881f symposiums 501 synoikiai 77 synoikismos 223 syphilis health and disease 555 pandemics and epidemics 828, 829 Syr Darya River 248 Syria 1088–1089 syssitia government organization 530 social organization 1034 Sythia 792f, 794

T Ta’akha Maryam palace 54 tabby weave 1076 tables 567, 568 Tablets of Destiny 842 tableware ceramics and pottery 184 household goods 569 tablinum 81

taboos crime and punishment 297 death and burial practices 311 Tabu-utul-Bêl 556–557 Tac it u s climate and geography 256 clothing and footwear 279 family 461 literature 664 migration and population movements 709–710, 723 sacred sites 903 scandals and corruption 914–915 social organization 1030 tactics military 729, 732–734, 736 war and conquest 1139, 1154 weaponry and armor 1169 Ta fi neq 1184 Taharqa, pyramid of 55 Tai Shan 901 talc 743 talent (gold weight value) economy 365 money and coinage 755 weights and measures 1175, 1176 “Tale of Sinuhe, Th e.” See “Story of Sinuhe, Th e” “Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, Th e” 646–647, 668–669 “Tale of Woe” 698 tally symbols 798, 802 Ta l mud drama and theater 331 education 380 talud-tablero architecture 83 cities 232 Tamalimba people 925 tambourines 772 tangible goods 346 Tanit 834f Tantamani (king of Egypt) empires and dynasties 391, 395 military 726 war and conquest 1125, 1130 Taoi sm. See Daoism tapers 585 tapestries 1076f, 1077, 1081 tarentine 281 Tarin Basin 704 taro 30, 33 Tarquinius Priscus (king of Rome) cities 202 empires and dynasties 407, 414 employment and labor 433 sacred sites 906

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