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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 sumerian[dot]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. This monograph provides an account of the architecture, artefacts, and environmental evidence, supported by a program of radiocarbon dating. The results emphasize 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 McCormick Adams reflects both the breadth of his research and the select themes upon which he focused his attention. Written by his students and disciples, the essays 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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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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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 of suffering, teaching on the good life, fables or context 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 in revealing the thought patterns of the ancient Babylonians. In addition to the cuneiform texts, copied direct ...
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The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia
by Milbry Polk and Angela Schuster
In April of 2003, the world reacted in shock at the news of the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. Priceless antiquities, spanning ten thousand years of human history, were smashed into pieces or stolen, and one of the most important storehouses of ...
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Mesopotamian Chronology of the 2nd Millenium B.C. An Introduction to the Textual Evidence and Related Chronological Issues
by Regine Pruzsinsky
Around the middle of the 2nd millennium B.C., after the end of the Babylon I dynasty there, is a chronological gap in all of our information from Mesopotamia, otherwise known as the Dark Age. This makes it impossible to establish an absolute chronology of the earlier half of the millennium and earlier. Only relative dates can be provided prior to ca. 1430/20 B.C. The central problem of Mesopotamian chronology is the dating of the Babylon I ...
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Babylon: Mythos und Wahrheit. Bd. 1: Wahrheit, Bd. 2: Mythos

The Tower of Babel and the confusion of tongues - today the myth of Babel still fires up the imagination. But what was real life like in historical Babylon? Babylonia's 3000-year-old history and the roots of the myth of Babel are the focus of this 2-volume catalog book accompanying an exhibition at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Volume 1 is devoted to historical facts, while Volume 2 deals with the myth. German text. 2 volumes, 900p, illus. ...
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