Mesopotamia

ISBN: 9780860549765
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: bar archaeopress
Volume: 765
Four examples of early Mesopotamian temples are discussed: Le temple de Nigirsu à Tello, Le temple de Ninhursag à Tell el Obeid, Le Riemchengbbauede d'Uruk, Le Steingebauede d'Uruk, with a very brief conclusion. Many plans and reconstructions. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789062580859
Published by : Nederlands Instituut voor het nabije oosten
The first in a series of studies on the economy of ancient Mesopotamia, forming the Proceedings of the First Mos Symposium held in Leiden in 1997. Contents: Monies, motives and methods in Babylonian economics (M A Powell) ; Capital formation a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780860549444
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
A comprehensive survey of Ubaid architecture, with special focus on the later material. It includes a detailed catalogue of Ubaid sites and analysis of building materials, architectural and structural elements and construction methods. There is... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780226067186
Published by : University of Chicago Press
A well written guide to Mesopotamian religion by one of the world's foremost Assyriologists. Bottéro studies the public and private relationships between the people and the divine, their cosmology, hymns and prayers, rituals, myths and magic. He d... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923073
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 115
This volume is the first publication of all 499 cuneiform tablets in the Asiatic Collection of the Oriental Institute Museum that come from the ancient administrative center of Puzrish-Dagan (modern Drehem) and date to the reign of Shulgi, the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923035
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 114
One autumn day in 1973, at the Oriental Institute's excavations at Nippur in south central Iraq, a workman rising from eating his lunch in one of the site's trenches brushed the balk against which he had been sitting, revealing a number of tabl... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780918986917
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 111
As the first of the final reports related to the current program of research at Nippur, this volume is crucial for understanding the Kassite assemblage at Nippur, especially for ceramics. This monograph emends and expands the assemblage that a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714121819
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
A concise, yet thorough study of early Mesopotamia before c.1500 BC. The history of this area of modern-day Syria and Iraq and the people that inhabited it are discussed alongside some wonderful photographs of objects from the British Museum c... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780860549741
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Based on the evidence of 38 excavated sites, the volume discusses 'buttress-recess' architecture, with regard to its formal development, functional range and its historical background. This contributes to an understanding of the stylistic deve... .... Learn More