Author: margaret horton potter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
istar of babylon
Author: margaret horton potter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy
Author: Margaret Horton Potter
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
"Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy" by Margaret Horton Potter Margaret Horton Potter was an American novelist, specializing in historical fiction. In this book, she whisks readers to the ancient civilization of Babylon. The first section of the book deals with the characters' journey to arrive at this great city, while the rest of the book primarily concerns itself with bringing the ambiance and vibrance she pictures to life.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
"Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy" by Margaret Horton Potter Margaret Horton Potter was an American novelist, specializing in historical fiction. In this book, she whisks readers to the ancient civilization of Babylon. The first section of the book deals with the characters' journey to arrive at this great city, while the rest of the book primarily concerns itself with bringing the ambiance and vibrance she pictures to life.
Ishtar and Tammuz
Author: C. J. Moore
Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
ISBN: 9780753450123
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A retelling of the Babylonian myth telling how the death of Ishtar's son Tammuz brings about the changing seasons on earth.
Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
ISBN: 9780753450123
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A retelling of the Babylonian myth telling how the death of Ishtar's son Tammuz brings about the changing seasons on earth.
Istar of Babylon
Author: Margaret Horton Potter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A Wonder to Behold
Author: Anastasia Amrhein
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691200157
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In the ancient Near East, expert craftspeople were more than technicians: they numbered among those special members of society who could access the divine. While the artisans' names are largely unknown today, their legacy remains in the form of spectacular artworks and monuments. One of the most celebrated works of antiquity--Babylon's Ishtar Gate and its affiliated Processional Way--featured a dazzling array of colorful beasts assembled from molded, baked, and glazed bricks. Such an awe-inspiring structure demanded the highest level of craft; each animal was created from dozens of bricks that interlocked like a jigsaw. Yet this display of technical and artistic skill also served a ritual purpose, since the Gate provided a divinely protected entrance to the sacred inner city of Babylon. 'A Wonder to Behold' explores ancient Near Eastern ideas about the transformative power of materials and craftsmanship as they relate to the Ishtar Gate. This beautifully illustrated catalogue accompanies an exhibition at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Essays by archaeologists, art historians, curators, conservators, and text specialists examine a wide variety of artifacts from major American and European institutions."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691200157
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In the ancient Near East, expert craftspeople were more than technicians: they numbered among those special members of society who could access the divine. While the artisans' names are largely unknown today, their legacy remains in the form of spectacular artworks and monuments. One of the most celebrated works of antiquity--Babylon's Ishtar Gate and its affiliated Processional Way--featured a dazzling array of colorful beasts assembled from molded, baked, and glazed bricks. Such an awe-inspiring structure demanded the highest level of craft; each animal was created from dozens of bricks that interlocked like a jigsaw. Yet this display of technical and artistic skill also served a ritual purpose, since the Gate provided a divinely protected entrance to the sacred inner city of Babylon. 'A Wonder to Behold' explores ancient Near Eastern ideas about the transformative power of materials and craftsmanship as they relate to the Ishtar Gate. This beautifully illustrated catalogue accompanies an exhibition at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Essays by archaeologists, art historians, curators, conservators, and text specialists examine a wide variety of artifacts from major American and European institutions."--Provided by publisher.
Babylonian Magic and Sorcery
Author: Leonard W. King
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 9780877289340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Originally published in 1896, this text contains the cunieform text of 60 clay tablets written between 669-625 BC. These tablets were inscribed with prayers and religious compositions of a devotional and magical character and there is little doubt that they were compiled from Babylonian sources.
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 9780877289340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Originally published in 1896, this text contains the cunieform text of 60 clay tablets written between 669-625 BC. These tablets were inscribed with prayers and religious compositions of a devotional and magical character and there is little doubt that they were compiled from Babylonian sources.
Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical and Interpretative Perspectives
Author: Tzvi Abusch
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004496297
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This volume, edited by Tzvi Zbusch and Karel van der Toorn, contains the papers delivered at the first international conference on Mesopotamian magic held under the auspices of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in June 1995. It is the first collective volume dedicated to the study of this topic. It aims at serving as a bench-mark and provides analytic and innovative but also sythetic and programmatic essays. Magical texts, forms, and traditions from the Mesopotamian cultural worlds of the third millennium BCE through the first millennium CE, in the Sumerian, Akkadian and Aramaic languages as well as in art, are examined.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004496297
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This volume, edited by Tzvi Zbusch and Karel van der Toorn, contains the papers delivered at the first international conference on Mesopotamian magic held under the auspices of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in June 1995. It is the first collective volume dedicated to the study of this topic. It aims at serving as a bench-mark and provides analytic and innovative but also sythetic and programmatic essays. Magical texts, forms, and traditions from the Mesopotamian cultural worlds of the third millennium BCE through the first millennium CE, in the Sumerian, Akkadian and Aramaic languages as well as in art, are examined.
Istar of Babylon
Author: Margaret Horton Potter
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498104005
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498104005
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.
The Genius
Author: Margaret Horton Potter
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
"The Genius" is an absorbing work by Margaret Horton Potter, an American novelist specializing in historical fiction. Excerpt "It was not strange, then, that the affair of New Year's night had become the sensation of the season. For on this night Prince Gregoriev had vowed a triumph over the massed society of the Mother City. He intended to accomplish now what his wedding with a daughter of one of the oldest and most honored families had failed to do: what no use of his unscrupulous power could force, what all Moscow society, for once banded unanimously together, had sworn he should never accomplish—enter their ranks, the ranks of the old nobility of the Empire."
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
"The Genius" is an absorbing work by Margaret Horton Potter, an American novelist specializing in historical fiction. Excerpt "It was not strange, then, that the affair of New Year's night had become the sensation of the season. For on this night Prince Gregoriev had vowed a triumph over the massed society of the Mother City. He intended to accomplish now what his wedding with a daughter of one of the oldest and most honored families had failed to do: what no use of his unscrupulous power could force, what all Moscow society, for once banded unanimously together, had sworn he should never accomplish—enter their ranks, the ranks of the old nobility of the Empire."
The Eye of Istar
Author: William Le Queux
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description