BabyloniansUniversity of California Press, 2000 - 192 sayfa Babylon stands with Athens and Rome as a cultural ancestor of western civilization. It was founded by the people of ancient Mesopotamia, who settled in the fertile crescent between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers before the fourth millennium b.c. Some of the earliest experiments in agriculture and irrigation, the invention of writing, the birth of mathematics and the development of urban life all began there. Biblical associations are also numerous, from Nineveh to the Tower of Babel and the Flood. In Babylonians, H. W. F. Saggs describes the ebb and flow in the successive fortunes of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Amorites, and Babylonians who flourished in this region. Using evidence from pottery, cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, early architecture and metallurgy, he illuminates the myths, religion, languages, trade, politics, and warfare--as well as the legacy--of the Babylonians and their predecessors. During the twentieth century, collaboration by archaeologists from many nations has greatly increased the range of archaeological evidence, while work by linguists has gradually unlocked the secrets of the thousands of clay tablets recovered from the area. Today the historical record for some periods of ancient Mesopotamia is substantially better than for some centuries of Europe in the Christian era. Gaps and uncertainties remain, but Babylonians conveys a rich and fascinating picture of the development of this remarkable civilization from before the beginning of the third millennium b.c. |
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Preface | 6 |
PREHISTORIC BEGINNINGS | 20 |
EARLY CITIES | 43 |
THE ARAMAIC LANGUAGE AND ANCIENT LIBRARIES | 140 |
IO THE NEOBABYLONIAN EMPIRE | 153 |
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Agade Akkadian Amorite ancient Aramaeans Aramaic archaeology army Ashur Ashurbanipal Assyria attack Babylon Babylonia began Borsippa capital century Chaldeans chronicle city-states civilisation clay tablets cuneiform cylinder seals divine Diyala dynasty earlier earliest Early Dynastic east Ebla economic Egypt Elam Elamite empire Enlil epic Esarhaddon Euphrates excavated Gilgamesh goddess gods Gutians Hammurabi Harran Inanna inscriptions Iraq Isin Jamdat Nasr Kassite Kassite period king Kish Kuyunjik Lagash land language lapis lazuli Larsa later Layard major Marduk Merodach-baladan Mesopotamia middle Euphrates muškenum myth Nabonidus Nabopolassar Naram-Sin Nebuchadnezzar Nineveh Nippur north Babylonia Old Babylonian period originally palace Persian Gulf region reign rituals royal ruler Sargon scholars scribal scribes second millennium Semitic settlements Shulgi Sippar slave south Mesopotamia south-west Iran stone Sumerian Syria temple texts third millennium Tigris took trade tradition tribes Tukulti-Ninurta Ubaid Uruk Uruk period Uta-napishtim writing Zagros ziggurat
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Sayfa 178 - A. Falkenstein and W. von Soden, Sumerische und akkadische Hymnen und Gebete, Zurich 1953, p.