The Greatness that was Babylon: A Survey of the Ancient Civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley |
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List of illustrations | 9 |
List of line illustrations in text XV | 15 |
Mesopotamia before 2000 B C | 27 |
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Adad-nirari administration Agade Akkadian amongst ancient Aramaean Ashur Ashurbanipal Asia Minor Assyrian Assyrian bas-relief Babylon Babylonia Cassite century B.C. certainly city-states clay cult culture cuneiform cylinder seal death deity documents Early Dynastic east Egypt Egyptian Elam empire Enki Enlil Ensi Epic Erech Eridu Eshnunna Euphrates evidence father fertility Gilgamish goddess gods Halaf Hammurabi Hittite Hurrian inscriptions Iran Iraq Ishtar Isin Jemdet Nasr Jemdet Nasr period kingdom kingship Kish known Lagash land Larsa later laws lord Marduk Mari mentioned Mesopotamia military millennium B.C. Mitanni myth Nabu-na'id Naram-Sin Nineveh Nippur official Old Babylonian omens originally plate pottery probably referred reign religion religious represented ritual royal ruler Sargon second millennium Semitic Shalmaneser Shamash Shamshi-Adad successor Sumer Sumerian King List Syria tablets temple texts Third Dynasty third millennium Tiglath-Pileser Tigris Tilmun tion tomb trade routes Ubaid Urartu Uruk period whilst Yasmah-Adad ziggurat