Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Volume 4Jack M. Sasson CIVILIZATIONS OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST presents this enormously rich world from a variety of perspectives. It describes the physical world of the ancient Near East, evaulates the impact of ancient near eastern civilizations on succeeding cultures, and reconstructs its cultural contexts based on archaeological findings and the deciphering of documents. The set consists of 189 artciles organized in eleven parts, enchanced by 46 maps and 612 photographs and line drawings. |
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Record Keeping Before Writing Denise SchmandtBesserat 2097 | 2097 |
The Sumerian Language D O Edzard 2107 | 2107 |
Semitic Languages John Huehnergard 2117 | 2117 |
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Achaemenid Akkad Akkadian Alalakh alphabet Amarna Anatolia Ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptian Ancient Mesopotamia Ancient Near East ancient near eastern Ancient Western Asia Aramaic Archaeology Assurnasirpal II Assyrian Baal biblical Boğazköy Bronze century BCE circa clay composition cult culture cuneiform cylinder seals dance decorated deities depicted divine documents Dynasty early Ebla edited Elamite Empire Enlil Enmerkar epic example excavations figures flood Gilgamesh goddess gods Greek Gudea Hebrew hieroglyphic Hittite human Hurrian hymns Idrimi inscriptions Iran king language later letters literary literature Luwian ment Mesopotamian modern monuments motifs Museum myth Naram-Sin narrative Nippur Old Babylonian palace papyrus period Persepolis reliefs ritual royal ruler scenes scholars scribal scribes script sculpture second millennium Semitic signs songs statue stela stone story Studies style Sumer Sumerian Syria tablets Tell temple texts tion tomb tradition translation ture Ugarit University Uruk verb words writing written