flying serpents and dragons
... instructions were given to Moses on how to prepare the food, which was left on a grill near the quarters of the deity for him to snack on in privacy. It was forbidden for humans to see him. Moses was told flatly by his God that "you cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live". And this proh ...
... instructions were given to Moses on how to prepare the food, which was left on a grill near the quarters of the deity for him to snack on in privacy. It was forbidden for humans to see him. Moses was told flatly by his God that "you cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live". And this proh ...
Dream Analysis in Ancient Mesopotamia
... beer and date wine were the principal alcoholic beverages for the Sumerians. It is not surprising that they should have been personified as gods, given their power to transform consciousness and to allow the freer expression of repressed emotions. In the text, Dumuzi gets drunk, and this sets the st ...
... beer and date wine were the principal alcoholic beverages for the Sumerians. It is not surprising that they should have been personified as gods, given their power to transform consciousness and to allow the freer expression of repressed emotions. In the text, Dumuzi gets drunk, and this sets the st ...
trade in mesopotamia from the early dynastic
... THE FINANCE OF SUCH TRADE is my own work and that all the sources that I have used or quoted have been indicated and acknowledged by means of complete references. ...
... THE FINANCE OF SUCH TRADE is my own work and that all the sources that I have used or quoted have been indicated and acknowledged by means of complete references. ...
Dokumentvorlage für Occasional Papers - Geschwister
... the Weltanschauung the major ancient “literary” texts – myths, stories, prayers, rituals, and royal inscriptions. That these texts originated from only one segment of the cultures, the scribes of the ruling elites, is no matter, because as Thorkild Jacobsen would write later, “as the historian of li ...
... the Weltanschauung the major ancient “literary” texts – myths, stories, prayers, rituals, and royal inscriptions. That these texts originated from only one segment of the cultures, the scribes of the ruling elites, is no matter, because as Thorkild Jacobsen would write later, “as the historian of li ...
SARGON THE GREAT OF AKKAD
... Sargon the Great (reigned c. 2334-2279 BC) was ruler of Mesopotamia near the end of the Early Bronze Age. He was a powerful and innovative warrior who brutally subdued his opponents and established a precedent for imperialism in Mesopotamia.1 Ruling from the archaeologically lost city of Akkad, per ...
... Sargon the Great (reigned c. 2334-2279 BC) was ruler of Mesopotamia near the end of the Early Bronze Age. He was a powerful and innovative warrior who brutally subdued his opponents and established a precedent for imperialism in Mesopotamia.1 Ruling from the archaeologically lost city of Akkad, per ...
Chapter 1 - The Birth of Civilization
... What were the major contributions of the small nations of the Middle East (i.e., Kassites, Hittites, etc.) to world civilization before the development of the Assyrian Empire? What were the most important factors in their development? Conceptual ...
... What were the major contributions of the small nations of the Middle East (i.e., Kassites, Hittites, etc.) to world civilization before the development of the Assyrian Empire? What were the most important factors in their development? Conceptual ...
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... urban center with a full-time bureaucracy, military, and stratified society. Although other settlements coexisted with Uruk, they were generally about 10 hectares while Uruk was significantly larger and more complex. The Uruk period culture exported by Sumerian traders and colonists had an effect on ...
... urban center with a full-time bureaucracy, military, and stratified society. Although other settlements coexisted with Uruk, they were generally about 10 hectares while Uruk was significantly larger and more complex. The Uruk period culture exported by Sumerian traders and colonists had an effect on ...
The Near East: 3000 to 1500 B.C.
... any rate, the actual, historical first dynasty of Ur was that of Mes-an-ni-pad-da of about 2,700 B.C. and it lasted supposedly for 177 years. During the later part of this time, at about 2,600 B.C. it had succeeded in conquering various surrounding areas, under King Urukagina. This was followed by t ...
... any rate, the actual, historical first dynasty of Ur was that of Mes-an-ni-pad-da of about 2,700 B.C. and it lasted supposedly for 177 years. During the later part of this time, at about 2,600 B.C. it had succeeded in conquering various surrounding areas, under King Urukagina. This was followed by t ...
Writing (and Reading) as Material Practice: The
... The analysis of clays used to make tablets in the cuneiform tradition is in the early stages of development (Taylor 2011). Most significant has been the work of Yuval Goren and colleagues in applying mineralogical and chemical analyses to corpora of clay tablets in order to explore issues of provena ...
... The analysis of clays used to make tablets in the cuneiform tradition is in the early stages of development (Taylor 2011). Most significant has been the work of Yuval Goren and colleagues in applying mineralogical and chemical analyses to corpora of clay tablets in order to explore issues of provena ...
Chapter 2 From the Deluge to the Tower
... the Tribes of Ithier (ith, grain; íre, land, field) north of Mount Caucasus. Both Cichol’s name and the reference to Lot’s breast may be remnants of an association with the Scythian-descendent Amazon nation. A poem in the Book of Leinster named a place near Colchis and Albania Cichloscthe, seeming t ...
... the Tribes of Ithier (ith, grain; íre, land, field) north of Mount Caucasus. Both Cichol’s name and the reference to Lot’s breast may be remnants of an association with the Scythian-descendent Amazon nation. A poem in the Book of Leinster named a place near Colchis and Albania Cichloscthe, seeming t ...
Marduk: Sun God of Babylon
... the Babylonian empire. The only serious rival to Marduk after ca. 1000 BCE was Aššur in Assyria. In the south, Marduk reigned supreme. He is normally referred to as Bel "Lord", also bel rabim "great lord", bêl bêlim "lord of lords", ab-kal ilâni bêl terêti "leader of the gods", aklu bêl terieti "the ...
... the Babylonian empire. The only serious rival to Marduk after ca. 1000 BCE was Aššur in Assyria. In the south, Marduk reigned supreme. He is normally referred to as Bel "Lord", also bel rabim "great lord", bêl bêlim "lord of lords", ab-kal ilâni bêl terêti "leader of the gods", aklu bêl terieti "the ...
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... Simply put, microhistory is the study of small pieces of history. Instead of focusing on nation states, ethnic groups, or famous figures (such as presidents or military leaders) for example, microhistory typically concentrates on what are considered to be more “ordinary” villages, families, or indiv ...
... Simply put, microhistory is the study of small pieces of history. Instead of focusing on nation states, ethnic groups, or famous figures (such as presidents or military leaders) for example, microhistory typically concentrates on what are considered to be more “ordinary” villages, families, or indiv ...
Ašipa Again: A Microhistory of an Assyrian Provincial Administrator
... Simply put, microhistory is the study of small pieces of history. Instead of focusing on nation states, ethnic groups, or famous figures (such as presidents or military leaders) for example, microhistory typically concentrates on what are considered to be more “ordinary” villages, families, or indiv ...
... Simply put, microhistory is the study of small pieces of history. Instead of focusing on nation states, ethnic groups, or famous figures (such as presidents or military leaders) for example, microhistory typically concentrates on what are considered to be more “ordinary” villages, families, or indiv ...
The Cradle of Human Civilization
... She was not ashamed to take him, she made herself naked and welcomed his eagerness: as he lay on her murmuring love she taught him the woman's art. For six days and seven nights they lay together, for Enkidu had forgotten his home in the hills; but when he was satisfied he went back to the wild beas ...
... She was not ashamed to take him, she made herself naked and welcomed his eagerness: as he lay on her murmuring love she taught him the woman's art. For six days and seven nights they lay together, for Enkidu had forgotten his home in the hills; but when he was satisfied he went back to the wild beas ...
the assyrian king and his scholars
... 1. THE KING AND HIS RETINUE OF SCHOLARS In the mid-7th century, when Assyria was the most powerful state in the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean region, its territories stretched far beyond the Assyrian homeland in Northern Iraq: All of Iraq and most of Syria, wide sweeps of Eastern Turkey an ...
... 1. THE KING AND HIS RETINUE OF SCHOLARS In the mid-7th century, when Assyria was the most powerful state in the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean region, its territories stretched far beyond the Assyrian homeland in Northern Iraq: All of Iraq and most of Syria, wide sweeps of Eastern Turkey an ...
History of Mesopotamia
The history of Mesopotamia describes the history of the area known as Mesopotamia, roughly coinciding with the Tigris–Euphrates basin, from the earliest human occupation in the Lower Palaeolithic period up to the Muslim conquests in the 7th century AD. This history is pieced together from evidence retrieved from archaeological excavations and, after the introduction of writing in the late 4th millennium BC, an increasing amount of historical sources. While in the Paleolithic and early Neolithic periods only parts of Upper Mesopotamia were occupied, the southern alluvium was settled during the late Neolithic period. Mesopotamia has been home to many of the oldest major civilizations, entering history from the Early Bronze Age, for which reason it is often dubbed the cradle of civilization. The rise of the first cities in southern Mesopotamia dates to the Chalcolithic (Uruk period), from c. 5300 BC; its regional independence ended with the Achaemenid conquest in 539 BC, although a few native neo-Assyrian kingdoms existed at different times, namely Adiabene, Osroene and Hatra.