Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic BabylonPeeters, 2004 - 385 pagine This study presents the famous city of Babylon in its latest phase of occupation: from the end of the Achaemenid period (second half of the fourth century B.C.), during the reign of Alexander, the Successors, the Seleucid and Arsacid dynasty until the very end of cuneiform literature and other historical sources (around third-fourth century AD). It contains first of all a survey of the available Classical and Oriental sources (chapter 1), a topography of the city (chapter 2), an overview of political events and Babylon's role in the Empire (chapter 3). Furthermore Babylon's institutions (chapter 4), its social and economic (chapter 5), religious (chapter 6) and cultural (chapter 7) life are discussed. Finally, Babylon's legacy and its significance for later cultures appears in chapter 8. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
SOURCES FROM BABYLON | 8 |
SOURCES ON BABYLON | 47 |
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according Achaemenid and Hellenistic Achaemenid period AION Suppl Akkadian Alexander Alexander's Antigonus Antiochus IV AOAT appears Arrian Arsaces astronomical diaries attested Babylonian basis Bēl Berossus bīt Borsippa clear colophon concerning context Ctesias cultic cuneiform cuneiform documents cuneiform sources cuneiform tablets cuneiform texts date formula Demetrius Diod Diodorus empire Enlil Esagil Esagil archive Etemenanki Euphrates excavations FGrHist gate Greek Hellenistic Babylon Hellenistic period historical notes Hyspaosines inhabitants inscription Iraq Iraq 43 Jerusalem kalû kiništu of Esagil Kislīmu known Kutha Late Achaemenid Late Babylonian LBAT MCEWAN mentioned Mesopotamia month Museum Nabû Neo-Babylonian Nisannu OELSNER pāḥāt Bābili palace Palmyrene Parthian period passage persons prebend preserved priests probably Ptolemy Rahim-Esu archive ration lists ritual royal Šamaš šatammu and kiništu šatammu of Esagil satrap SBH VII Seleucid empire Seleucid king Seleucus Sippar SPEK strategos TBER temple accounts Tintir Uruk Walker
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