Women at the dawn of history /
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In the patriarchal world of ancient Mesopotamia, women were often represented in their relation to men - as mothers, daughters, or wives - giving the impression that a woman's place was in the home. But, as we explore in this volume, they were also authors and scholars, astute business-women, sources of expressions of eroticism, priestesses with access to major gods and goddesses, and regents who exercised power on behalf of kingdoms, states, and empires.
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Catalog of the exhibition held in the Babylonian Collection in the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University beginning February 29th, 2020. :
111 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-111). :
9781734342000
The Pax Assyriaca : the historical evolution of civilisations and the archaeology of empires /
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This volume provides a study of the evolutionary process of ancient civilisations, stressing the comparison between theoretical principles and relevant historical and archaeological evidence. For this reason, the study focuses on the origin, development and collapse of the first stage of the 'Central Civilization', which was the result of the merger of two primeval civilisations, Mesopotamia and Egypt, during the 'Near Eastern phase' of this Central Civilisation. This merger seems to have been the result of the political expansion of an imperial entity coming from Mesopotamia under the aegis of the so-called Neo-Assyrian Empire from 1000 BC to 600 BC - better known as the Pax Assyriaca - although the process of full integration with Egypt seems to have been concluded, according to the archaeological records, only by the successor empires of Assyria circa 430 BC.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789690637 (PDF ebook) :
Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene : three regna minora of northern Mesopotamia between east and west /
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In Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene , M. Marciak offers the first-ever comprehensive study of the history and culture of these three little-known countries of Northern Mesopotamia (3rd century BCE - 7th century CE). The book gives an overview of the historical geography, material culture, and political history of each of these countries. Furthermore, the summary offers a regional perspective by describing the history of this area as a subject of the political and cultural competition of great powers. This book answers both a recent growth of interest in ancient Mesopotamia as the frontier area, as well as the urgent need for documentation of the cultural heritage of a region that has recently become subject to the destructive influence of sectarian violence.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9789004350724 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Enemies of civilization : attitudes toward foreigners in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China /
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xviii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-208) and index. :
079146363X (hc : acidfree paper)
0791463648 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
9780791463642
Babylone /
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Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, Mar. 14-June 2, 2008; Pergamon Museum, Berlin, June 26-Oct. 5, 2008 and the British Museum, London, Nov. 13, 2008-Mar. 15, 2009. :
575 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 30 cm :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-571) and index. :
9782754102834 (Hazan)
2754102833 (Hazan)
9782350311739 (Musée du Louvre)
2350311732 (Musée du Louvre)
The Amorites : A Political History of Mesopotamia in the Early Second Millennium BCE /
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This study of the political history of Mesopotamia - today's Iraq and Syria - in the Old Babylonian period (ca. 2000-1600 BCE) is the first comprehensive historical synthesis of this kind published in English after many decades. Based on numerous written sources in Sumerian and Akkadian - royal inscriptions, letters, law collections, economic records, etc. - and on up-to-date research, it presents the region's political history in a meticulous geographic and chronological manner. This allows the interested academic and non-academic reader an in-depth view into the scene of ancient Mesopotamia ruled by competing dynasties of West Semitic (Amorite) origin, with a complex web of political and tribal connections between them.
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1 online resource (597 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004547315
The primeval flood catastrophe : origins and early development in Mesopotamian traditions /
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Revision du premier volume de la these de l'auteur (de doctorat)--University of Oxford, 2009 sous le titre : The emergence and development of Sumerian and Babylonian traditions related to the primeval flood catastrophe from the Old Babylonian period.
Index : pages 271-314. :
xix, 314 pages, 16 pages de planches : illustrations, cartes ; 24 cm :
Bibliographie: pages 259-270. :
9780199676200
0199676208
The creative history of Iraq /
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"Credit for the preparation of this publication is due to Sayid Fuad Safar, the Inspector-General of Excavation, and Sayid Bashir Francis, the Specialist Inspector of Antiquities. Acknowledgement is due also to Mr. David Oates, of Cambridge University, and to Sayid Antran Ivan, photographer of the Directorate-General of Antiquities"--Pref.
"February, 1957"--Foreword.
Foreword signed by Director-General of Antiquities. :
53 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations (1 color), color maps ; 28 cm.