Mesopotamia
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Animal Symbolism in Mesopotamia. A Contextual Approach [Paperback]
Chikako E Watanabe (Author)
$39.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783900345082
Published by : Institut fur Orientalistik
Animals have a prominent role in Mesopotamia culture and humans are frequently associated with their characteristics. Based on the author's thesis, this study looks at how animals are used as symbols in Mesopotamian culture, with particular refere... .... Learn More -
Du verbe a l'ecrit: La naissance de l'ecriture [Paperback]
Elisabeth Le Breton (Author)
$25.00Out of stock
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Die Wettergottgestalten Mesopotamiens und Nordsyriens [Hardback]
Daniel Schwemer (Author)
$123.75Out of stock
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Neo-Sumerian Texts from Ur in the British Museum [Paperback]
Francesco Pomponio (Author);Franco D'Agostino (Author);Yuca Hongo (Author);R. Laurito (Author)
$70.00Out of stock
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Soundings at Tell Fakhariyah [Hardback]
Calvin W McEwan (Author);H. G. Guterbock (Author);Linda S Braidwood (Author);H. Frankfort (Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9780226079448
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 79
An imposing array of scholars have united to pay a debt of piety to the late C. W. McEwan, whose untimely death in 1950 forestalled the publication of his campaign at Tell Fakhariyah, which took place in 1940. That the important results obtaine... .... Learn More -
Babylonian Wisdom Literature [Hardback]
W. G. Lambert (Author)
$75.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780931464942
Published by : Eisenbrauns
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 consider... .... Learn More -
Sargonic Texts in the Louvre Museum [Paperback]
I J Gelb (Author)
$15.00ISBN: 9780226623085
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: MATERIALS ASSYRIAN DICTIONARY
Volume: 4
This volume presents transliterations of all the unpublished Sargonic material in the Louvre Museum except that from Lagash and Susa. Nearly all the texts are administrative documents concerning animals (mainly sheep and goats, but also bovines... .... Learn More -
Sargonic Texts in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford [Paperback]
I J Gelb (Author)
$15.00ISBN: 9780226623092
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: MATERIALS ASSYRIAN DICTIONARY
Volume: 5
This volume presents transliterations of texts in the Ashmolean Museum, most of which are from Kish and Umm-el-Jir, near Kish. A few texts of unknown origin have also been included. The majority of these tablets are standard administrative text... .... Learn More -
Inscriptions from Tell Abu Salabikh [Hardback]
Robert D Biggs (Author); Donald P Hansen (Author)
Regular Price: $65.00
Special Price: $24.98
ISBN: 9780226622026
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 99
This volume publishes all of the cuneiform tablets excavated at Tell Abu Salabikh in 1963 and 1965 with the exception of a very few fragments considered illegible. All other tablets are represented by a copy, by a photograph, or by both. Except... .... Learn More -
Excavations at Nippur: Eleventh Season [Paperback]
J H Johnson (Author); McGuire Gibson (Author); Miguel Civil (Author); S A Kaufman (Author)
Regular Price: $20.00
Special Price: $4.98
ISBN: 9780226623399
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Communications
Volume: 22
In this volume the Nippur Expedition publishes the first results of its new program of research at Nippur, the holy city of Mesopotamia. This program, bringing together an interdisciplinary team to work on a historical site in Mesopotamia, foc... .... Learn More