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Ancient Mesopotamia: portrait of a dead civilization / by A. Leo Oppenheim.
Van Pelt - Judaica/Ancient Near East Resource Room (401) DS69.5 .O6 1964
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oppenheim, A. Leo, 1904-1974.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iraq--Civilization--To 634.
- Iraq.
- Civilization.
- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 433 pages : illustrations, maps (1 folded in pocket) portrait ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1964]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 353-378) "Bibliographical notes": pages 379-387.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Oppenheim, A. Leo, 1904-1974. Ancient Mesopotamia: portrait of a dead civilization.
- ISBN:
- 0226631885
- 9780226631882
- OCLC:
- 1175501
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