Publications of the Babylonian Section

Publications of the Babylonian Section

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  • Author: University of Pennsylvania. University Museum. Babylonian Section
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  • Category : Babylonia
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 190


Publications of the Babylonian Section

Publications of the Babylonian Section

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  • Author: University of Pennsylvania. University Museum. Babylonian Section
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  • Category : Babylonia
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244


They Wrote on Clay

They Wrote on Clay

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  • Author: Edward Chiera
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107486653
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 253

Originally published in 1939, this book contains an assessment of the historical evidence provided by ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets. The text is accompanied by a number of photographs of the tablets, as well as of important archaeological sites and Babylonian artefacts. Chiera's enthusiasm for his subject is clear, as the text is accessibly written and contains many Babylonian legends and assesses their relationship to biblical texts. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Assyriology and the ancient Middle East.


Publications of the Babylonian Section

Publications of the Babylonian Section

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  • Category : Babylonia
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 328


Neo-Babylonian Texts in the Oriental Institute Collection

Neo-Babylonian Texts in the Oriental Institute Collection

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  • Author: David B. Weisberg
  • Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
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  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 368

The 173 texts contained in this volume were acquired by the Oriental Institute Tablet Collection over a long period of years from various sources. The texts are dated from 699 to 423 BC, during the Neo-Babylonian period. The more noteworthy subject matter of the texts includes an adoption document, sale of houses and a field (from the Nur-Sin archive), a "datio in solutum," a court protocol concerning a loan of silver with interest specified, a loan of silver with interest specified, proceedings in the assembly concerning personal status, a Mar Banutu text from the town of Hubat, a court record concerning the status of a freed person, a contract with fowlers to supply birds to Eanna, an inventory of the finery of the Lady-of-Uruk for craftsmen, a four-column list of precious objects, a two-column list of words, a tablet whose obverse records part of a contract and whose reverse is from Sb B, a fragment of an Akkadian religious text or medical or astrological commentary, and a fragment of a literary text. The book contains transliterations, translations, text notes, commentary, indices, and a mixture of hand-drawn copies and photographs of the tablets.


Catalogue: Authors

Catalogue: Authors

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  • Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
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  • Category : Anthropology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 608


The Babylonian World

The Babylonian World

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  • Author: Gwendolyn Leick
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134261276
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 731

The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon. Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and complex civilization, responsible for the invention of the dictionary and laying the foundations of modern science. This book explores all key aspects of the development of this ancient culture, including the ecology of the region and its famously productive agriculture, its political and economic standing, its religious practices, and the achievements of its intelligentsia. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying the period.


Babylonian Topographical Texts

Babylonian Topographical Texts

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  • Author: A. R. George
  • Publisher: Peeters Publishers
  • ISBN: 9789068314106
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 592

Babylonian Topographical Texts collects for the first time all Babylonian and Assyrian texts of the first millennium B.C. that belong to what is designated the topographical genre. Much of the material is not previously published. The book is largely concerned with Babylon. Seventeen texts on this city now allow its topography to be properly understood for the first time. Another seventeen texts concern the cities of Nippur, Assur, Kish and Uruk. Also included are thirty miscellaneous texts, mostly new, which bear upon topographical matters. The text editions and translations are supplemented by a philological and topical commentary. The work is concluded with full indices, and 57 plates of cuneiform copies.


Babylonian Chronology

Babylonian Chronology

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  • Author: Richard A. Parker
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1556354533
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 59


The Babylonian Genesis

The Babylonian Genesis

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  • Author: Alexander Heidel
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 022611242X
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 177

Here is a complete translation of all the published cuneiform tablets of the various Babylonian creation stories, of both the Semitic Babylonian and the Sumerian material. Each creation account is preceded by a brief introduction dealing with the age and provenance of the tablets, the aim and purpose of the story, etc. Also included is a translation and discussion of two Babylonian creation versions written in Greek. The final chapter presents a detailed examination of the Babylonian creation accounts in their relation to our Old Testament literature.