Mesopotamian Civilizations

Piotr Michalowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations | nr. 1
• This work presents for the first time in its entirety the long Sumerian poem describing the destruction and suffering in Babylonia during the final da... Lees meer

Royal Statuary of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia

Gianni Marchesi, Nicolò Marchetti

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations
• The corpus of Early Dynastic figurative monuments from ancient Mesopotamia is substantial. For many years, establishing the chronological sequence and... Lees meer

Adapa and the South Wind

Shlomo Izre'el

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations
• The scholarly world first became aware of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind when it was discovered on a tablet from the El-Amarna archive in 1887. ... Lees meer

Babylonian Creation Myths

Wilfred G Lambert

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations
• For much of the last half of the twentieth century, W. G. Lambert devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of Babylonian texts deal... Lees meer

Lamastu

Walter Farber

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations
• Lamastu was one of the most important Mesopotamian demons, playing a dominant role in the magico-religious and magico-medical beliefs and practices of... Lees meer

The Lamentation Over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur

Piotr Michalowski

• Paperback | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations
• This work presents for the first time in its entirety the long Sumerian poem describing the destruction and suffering in Babylonia during the final da... Lees meer

Babylonian Oracle Questions

Wilfred G Lambert

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations
• The Babylonian tamitu texts are a corpus of questions addressed to the sun-god Shamash and the storm-god Adad jointly. Professional diviners were empl... Lees meer

Babylonia, the Gulf Region, and the Indus

Steffen Laursen

• Paperback | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations | nr. 20
• During the third millennium BC, the huge geographical area stretching between the Mediterranean in the west and the Indus Valley in the east witnessed... Lees meer

Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography

Wayne Horowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations
• In this comprehensive study, Horowitz examines all of the extant Mesopotamian texts (both Sumerian and Akkadian) relating to the ideas of the physical... Lees meer

Legends of the Kings of Akkade

Joan Goodnick Westenholz

• Paperback | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations
• The most impressive legacy of the Dynasty of Akkade (ca. 2310-2160 B.C.E.) was the widespread, popular legends of its kings. Dr. Westenholz offers an ... Lees meer

Legends of the Kings of Akkade

Joan Goodnick Westenholz

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations | nr. 7
• The most impressive legacy of the Dynasty of Akkade (ca. 2310-2160 B.C.E.) was the widespread, popular legends of its kings. Dr. Westenholz offers an ... Lees meer

Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part Two

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations | nr. 25
• This book publishes 323 handcopies of cuneiform tablets found in the academic papers of W. G. Lambert (1926-2011), one of the foremost Assyriologists ... Lees meer

Letters to the King of Mari

Wolfgang Heimpel

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations | nr. 12
• In this new Mesopotamian Civilizations volume, Professor Heimpel collects the corpus of the Mari correspondence and provides an introduction, a recons... Lees meer

House Most High

Andrew R George

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations | nr. 5
• Originally begun in collaboration with Professor W. L. Moran, this work collects all of the extant cuneiform tablets inscribed with lists of temples. ... Lees meer

The Lamentation Over the Destruction of Ur

Nili Samet

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations
• The goal of this book is to present a revised edition of the Sumerian Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur , a lament bewailing the fall of the glor... Lees meer

Mesopotamian Civilizations

Piotr Michalowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations
• The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur is a collection of literary letters between the Ur III monarchs and their high officials at the end of the third... Lees meer

The Writing on the Wall

John Malcolm Russell

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations | nr. 9
• It is too often forgotten that every Assyrian "historical" inscription functioned in a very specific context. This context influenced its content and ... Lees meer

Assyria

Mario Liverani

• Paperback | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations | nr. 21
• In ancient traditions, Assyria was the first world empire in a series that continued with Persia, Macedonia, and Rome. After Rome, we imagine the seri... Lees meer

Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part One

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesopotamian Civilizations | nr. 24
• W. G. Lambert's line drawings of cuneiform tablets from the British Museum, together with his meticulous editions of their contents, form a contributi... Lees meer