Author: Randolph Humphrey Berens
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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The Babylonian Tablets of the Berens Collection
The Babylonian Tablets of the Berens Collection
Author: Theophilus Pinches
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ISBN: 9781536937794
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Part of the British Society Monograph series, this is a book that basically contains lots of information about Babylonian seals and tablets. I can find no description for the book elsewhere and seeing as I haven't read it, I'm just going from what I see as I skim through. Lots of illustrations of ancient tablets and descriptions and translations of what is on them. The tablets themselves have all sorts of information on them, from food consignments to garments, to workmen's wages and the sale of a female slave.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781536937794
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Part of the British Society Monograph series, this is a book that basically contains lots of information about Babylonian seals and tablets. I can find no description for the book elsewhere and seeing as I haven't read it, I'm just going from what I see as I skim through. Lots of illustrations of ancient tablets and descriptions and translations of what is on them. The tablets themselves have all sorts of information on them, from food consignments to garments, to workmen's wages and the sale of a female slave.
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Establishing Value
Author: Vitali Bartash
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501510266
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book explores the reasons for which weights and scales were used to measure goods in Early Mesopotamia (ca. 3,200-2,000 BCE). The vast corpus of cuneiform records from this period sheds light on the various mechanisms behind the development of this cultural innovation. Weighing became the means of articulating the value of both imported and locally-produced goods within a socioeconomic system that had reached an unprecedented level of complexity. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of this cultural and economic phenomenon, which simultaneously reflected and shaped the relationships between individuals and groups in Mesopotamia throughout the third millennium BCE.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501510266
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book explores the reasons for which weights and scales were used to measure goods in Early Mesopotamia (ca. 3,200-2,000 BCE). The vast corpus of cuneiform records from this period sheds light on the various mechanisms behind the development of this cultural innovation. Weighing became the means of articulating the value of both imported and locally-produced goods within a socioeconomic system that had reached an unprecedented level of complexity. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of this cultural and economic phenomenon, which simultaneously reflected and shaped the relationships between individuals and groups in Mesopotamia throughout the third millennium BCE.
The First Dynasty of the Sealand in Mesopotamia
Author: Odette Boivin
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501507869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Sealand kingdom arose from the rebellion against Babylonian hegemony in the latter half of the 18th century BCE., forcing it to share power over Sumer and Akkad. Although its kings maintained themselves throughout the turmoil leading to the demise of the Amorite dynasty at Babylon, it remains one of the most poorly documented Mesopotamian polities. Until recently, it was known to us mainly through its inclusion into later king lists and chronicles, but the recent publication of well over 400 archival texts from a Sealand palace, soon followed by literary and divinatory tablets, finally makes it possible to study this polity from primary sources. This book proposes a history of the Sealand kingdom based on the new evidence and a reevaluation of previously known sources. The aspects examined are: the economy — mainly the palatial administration and transformation of agricultural and animal resources; the panthea and the palace-sponsored cult, which show that Sealand I kings may have positioned their rule in a Larsean tradition; the political history, including a discussion of the geography and the relative chronology; the recording and transmission of knowledge on the Sealand I dynasty in Mesopotamian historiography.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501507869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Sealand kingdom arose from the rebellion against Babylonian hegemony in the latter half of the 18th century BCE., forcing it to share power over Sumer and Akkad. Although its kings maintained themselves throughout the turmoil leading to the demise of the Amorite dynasty at Babylon, it remains one of the most poorly documented Mesopotamian polities. Until recently, it was known to us mainly through its inclusion into later king lists and chronicles, but the recent publication of well over 400 archival texts from a Sealand palace, soon followed by literary and divinatory tablets, finally makes it possible to study this polity from primary sources. This book proposes a history of the Sealand kingdom based on the new evidence and a reevaluation of previously known sources. The aspects examined are: the economy — mainly the palatial administration and transformation of agricultural and animal resources; the panthea and the palace-sponsored cult, which show that Sealand I kings may have positioned their rule in a Larsean tradition; the political history, including a discussion of the geography and the relative chronology; the recording and transmission of knowledge on the Sealand I dynasty in Mesopotamian historiography.
Catalog of the Oriental Institute Library, University of Chicago
Author: University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Library
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
The Flowing Vase and the God with Streams
Author: Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren
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Category : Art, Assyro-Babylonian
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Category : Art, Assyro-Babylonian
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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