Historical Dictionary of MesopotamiaThis dictionary provides a useful resource on the civilization, history, religion, and culture of Mesopotamia, with entries on rulers, peoples, heroes, goddesses, religious practice, myths, funerary practice, archives, and aspects of daily life, among other topics. An introduction outlines Mesopotamian history and the highlights of its civilization. Appendices contain an extensive bibliography, which is organized by subject; a list of museums with major Mesopotamian collections; and a list of rulers. Leick, who has an impressive list of publications in the field, teaches at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, UK. Not indexed. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). |
Contents
VI | 1 |
VII | 20 |
VIII | 26 |
IX | 34 |
X | 36 |
XI | 44 |
XII | 51 |
XIII | 57 |
XX | 94 |
XXI | 96 |
XXII | 100 |
XXIII | 101 |
XXIV | 115 |
XXV | 123 |
XXVI | 128 |
XXVII | 135 |
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Achaemenid Adad-nirari administrative agricultural Akkadian Amorite Anatolia ancient Aramean archaeological archives Ashurbanipal Assyrian king Babylonian king became building campaigns capital century B.C. city-states cult cuneiform defeated deities divine documents Dynasty of Isin Early Dynastic period East Elam Elamite empire Enlil Esarhaddon Euphrates Gilgamesh goddess gods Hammurabi historical Hittite Hurrian important Inanna Iran Ishtar Isin Kassite Kassite Dynasty Kassite kings king of Babylon kingdom kingship Kish known Lagash land language Larsa Marduk Mesopotamia Mesopotamian cities Middle Assyrian military Mitanni Museum Nabonidus naditu Naram-Sin Nebuchadrezzar Neo-Assyrian Neo-Babylonian period Nineveh Nippur nomadic Old Babylonian period palace Parthian Persian political region reigned ritual royal inscriptions rulers Sargon of Akkad scribes second millennium B.C. Seleucid Semitic Sennacherib Shalmaneser Shamash Shamshi-Adad Sippar sources southern Mesopotamia Sumer Sumerian King List Syria tablets temple territories texts Third Dynasty third millennium B.C. throne Tiglath-pileser Tigris trade tribal tribes Tukulti-Ninurta Uruk period walls women ziggurat