Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead CivilizationUniversity of Chicago Press, 31 gen 2013 - 462 pagine "This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago. |
Sommario
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I The Making of Mesopotamia | 31 |
II Go to let us build us a city and a tower | 74 |
III Regnum a gente in gentem transfertur | 143 |
IV Nah istund schwer zu fassen der Gott | 171 |
V Laterculis coctilibus | 228 |
VI There are many strange wonders but nothing more wonderful than man | 288 |
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administrative AƒO Akkad Akkadian Alalakh Amarna ancient Near East animals Assur Assurbanipal Assyrian Assyrian kings Assyriologist attested Babylon Boghazkeui called century B.C. clay complex concerned cuneiform cuneiform texts deity divination documents dynasty early economic Egypt Egyptian Elam Elamite epic Euphrates evidence extispicy fragments function Gilgamesh gods groups Hammurapi Hittite Hurrian I. J. Gelb important influence Isin Ištar Kassite king lists language Larsa letters literary literature Marduk material mentioned Meso Mesopo Mesopotamian civilization millennium B.C. Nabonidus names Neo-Babylonian Nineveh Nippur Nuzi offer officials Old Babylonian period Old Testament omens Oppenheim palace Persian persons physician political potamian practice refer region religion religious represent ritual royal inscriptions ruler Šamaš sanctuary Sargon Sargon II scholarly scribes second millennium seems Seleucid Semitic šimtu Sippar social specific status stelae Sultantepe Sumerian Susa Syria tablets techniques temple Tigris tion trade tradition Ugarit Ur III urban Uruk writing written