Ancient Mesopotamia : portrait of a dead civilization /

Ancient Mesopotamia : portrait of a dead civilization /

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Main Author: Oppenheim, A. Leo, 1904-1974 (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1964].

Series: Phoenix books ; P317.

Subjects:

Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.
Iraq > Civilization > To 634.

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Call Number: DS69.5 .O6 1964

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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The making of Mesopotamia. The background
  • The setting
  • The actors
  • The world around
  • pt. 2. Go to, let us build us a city and a tower. The social texture
  • Economic facts
  • "The great organizations"
  • The city
  • Urbanism
  • pt. 3. Regnum a gente in gentem transfertur. Historical sources or literature
  • An essay on Babylonian history
  • An essay on Assyrian history
  • pt. 4. Nah ist-und schwer zu fassen der gott. Why a "Mesopotamian religion" should not be written
  • The care and feeding of the gods
  • Mesopotamian "psychology"
  • The arts of the diviner
  • pt. 5. Laterculis coctilibus. The meaning of writing
  • The scribes
  • The creative effort
  • Patterns in non-literary texts
  • pt. 6. There are many strange wonders, but nothing more wonderful than man. Medicine and physicians
  • Mathematics and astronomy
  • Craftsmen and artists.