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Mesopotamia

Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language
edited by John A Halloran
With 6,400 entries, this is the most complete available lexicon of ancient Sumerian vocabulary. It replaces version 3 of the author's Sumerian Lexicon, which has served an audience of over 380,000 visitors at the web site www.sumerian.org since 1999. This published version adds over 2,600 new entries, and corrects or expands many of the previous entries. Also, following the express wish of a majority of online lexicon users, it has ...
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Excavations at Tell Brak 4: Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian Regional Centre, 1994-1996
by Roger Matthews
Tell Brak in Syria is one of the largest and most important multi-period sites in northern Mesopotamia. Excavations in 1994-1996 cast new light on everyday life at the settlement through several phases of occupation from the early 4th millennium BC to the 2nd millennium BC. Volume 4 in the Tell Brak Monograph series provides an account of the architecture, artefacts, and environmental evidence, supported by a program of radiocarbon dating. The ...
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Settlement and Society: Essays Dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams
edited by Elizabeth C Stone
This volume of essays dedicated to Robert McCormack Adams reflects both the breadth of his research and the select themes upon which he focused his attention. These essays, written by his students and disciples, focus on issues in Near Eastern archaeology but range as far afield as the Indus Valley and Mesoamerica. They also concentrate on aspects of early complex society, but some refer back to the late Neolithic and others forward to Islamic ...
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Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries
by P R S Moorey
An excellent reprint of this highly informative and extremely interesting book on the materials, crafts and technologies of Ancient Mesopotamia. Originally published in 1994, this is the first systematic survey of the archaeological evidence for the crafts and craftsmanship of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians covering the period c.8000-300 BC. Mooney reviews the textual evidence before examining in detail the archaeological evidence for ...
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Your Praise is Sweet: A Memorial Volume for Jeremy Black from Students, Colleagues and Friends
edited by Heather D. Baker, Eleanor Robson, and Gábor Zólyomi
This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase zà-mí-zu dug-ga-àm 'Your praise is sweet' is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literature. The scope of the thirty contributions, from Sumerology to the nineteenth-century rediscovery of Mesopotamia, is testament to Jeremy's own wide-ranging interests and to his ability to forge ...
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Challenging Climate Change: Competition and Cooperation Among Pastoralists and Agriculturalists in Northern Mesopotamia (c. 3000-1600 BC)
by Arne Wossink
Throughout history, climate change has been an important driving force behind human behaviour. This archaeological study seeks to understand the complex interrelations between that behaviour and climatic fluctuations, focussing on how climate affected the social relations between neighbouring communities of occasionally differing nature. It is argued that developments in these relations will fall within a continuum between competition on one end ...
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Dr. Arnold Nöldeke: Briefe aus Uruk-Warka, 1931-1939
edited by Margarethe van Ess and Elisabeth Weber-Nöldeke
Between 1931 and 1939, Arnold Nöldeke directed the German excavations at Uruk-Warka in southern Iraq, which are under the direction of the German Archaeological Institute. Uruk-Warka, one of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia, was occupied without interruption between the 5th millennium BC and ca. 300 AD, and is the setting of several Sumerian legends and epics, the most famous of which is the Epic of Gilgamesh. Nöldeke's letters ...
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Ancient Mesopotamia
by Susan Pollock
Pollock's account provides a general and wide-ranging look at ancient Mesopotamia, c.5000-2100BC. Explicitly anthropological in its approach, the book is a response to the uneveness of investigations in Mesopotamian archaeology and history in general. Pollock explores the cultural and social responses to political, economic and ideological change, interpretations based on study of regional settlement patterns, faunal remains, artefacts ...
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Babylonian Wisdom Literature
by W G Lambert
In Babylonian studies 'Wisdom' is used to cover a group of texts similar in scope to the Biblical Wisdom books: discussions on the problem of suffering, teaching on the good life, fables or contest literature, and proverbs. These texts are not only of considerable literary merit, but are also of great importance to all students of the ancient Near East as revealing the thought pattern of the ancient Babylonians. The cuneiform texts have been ...
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Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom
by Adam H Becker
The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual centre of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries CE and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom provides a history both of the School and of the scholastic nature of the Church of the East more generally in the later antique and early Islamic periods. Adam H Becker examines the ideological and intellectual ...
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