Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead CivilizationUniversity of Chicago Press, 1964 - 433 pagine "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 has studied these tablets for more than thirty years, has used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. He outlines Babylonian and Assyrian history; discusses the social structure and psychology of the Mesopotamian people; describes their daily life, religion, literature, technology, and scientific tradition. This precise and unbiased presentation focuses on those unique cultural features of the ancient land that enabled the Mesopotamian civilization to last for more than three millennia. The result is a deft "portrait," a candid appraisal of the very essence of ancient Mesopotamia." -- |
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Prefatory Note | 1 |
AssyriologyWhy and How? | 7 |
The Making of Mesopotamia | 31 |
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