The Seal of the Sanga

The Seal of the Sanga
Author: Michel Tanret
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004179585

This study assembles and examines all available documentation on the first and second sangas of ama of the Ebabbar temple in Old Babylonian Sippar as well as on those in the Edikuda temple in neighbouring Sippar-Amn num. Their succession, family links and the length of their careers are discussed and newly completed drawings of their seals are provided, described and analyzed. The author addresses the evolving patterns of sealing and the changes in the seal legends, which yield information on the growing influence of the Marduk circles and thus of the kings of Babylon. The seal stones have been reconstructed from the impressions and conclusions are drawn concerning the choice of seal scenes by the different sangas as well as the use of family seals.

Women in the Ancient Near East

Women in the Ancient Near East
Author: Marten Stol
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2016-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 150150021X

Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.

Image and Identity in the Ancient Near East: Papers in memoriam Pierre Amiet

Image and Identity in the Ancient Near East: Papers in memoriam Pierre Amiet
Author: Laura Battini
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 180327123X

This volume, consisting of two parts, gathers papers in honour of Pierre Amiet. Part 1 analyses the body as a biological entity as well as a social, sexual and cultural identity (persona). Part 2 includes articles closely related to the specialisms of Amiet: glyptics, state formation, and the organisation of craftsmen and statuary.

As Above, So Below

As Above, So Below
Author: Gina Konstantopoulos
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1646021533

This volume addresses the nexus of religion and geography in the ancient Near East through case studies of various time periods and regions. Using Sumerian, Akkadian, and Aramaic text corpora, iconography, and archaeological evidence, the contributors illuminate the diverse phenomena that occur when religion is viewed through the lenses of space and place. Gina Konstantopoulos draws upon Sumerian literature to understand mythicized and semimythicized locations. Seth Richardson and Elizabeth Knott focus on the Old Babylonian period, with Richardson addressing the interplay between law, location, and the gods, while Knott turns from text to image, relocating the reader to Syria and realizing the potential of royal iconography when situated in the “right” space. Shana Zaia moves forward to the first millennium, following the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire as it shifted from city to city, with divine implications. Finally, Arnulf Hausleiter and Sebastiano Lora focus on northwest Arabia, unearthing a local pantheon and situating it among the various influences in the region from the second millennium onward. Covering a broad geographical and temporal scope while maintaining a cohesive focus on the theme, this book will appeal especially to Assyriologists, scholars of the ancient Near East, and specialists in historical geography.

Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 BC)

Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 BC)
Author: Douglas Frayne
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 904
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802058737

A short introduction for each inscription gives its general contents, place of origin, and relative dating. Also included are a detailed catalogue of exemplars, a brief commentary, bibliography, and text in transliteration facing an English translation.

Old Babylonian Legal and Administrative Texts from Philadelphia

Old Babylonian Legal and Administrative Texts from Philadelphia
Author: Karel van Lerberghe
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789068310634

This volume contains the copies of 101 Old-Babylonian texts from the Collection of the Babylonian Section (CBS) kept in the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as full indices to these texts. Almost all the tablets come from the Sippar region and have a juridical or administrative character. One group of texts provides new and additional documentation for the study of the rental of the "journey of the divine weapon". Some texts give more information on the role and integration of the Kassites in Old-Babylonian society. Most interesting are the so-called "Quasi-Hullen-tafeln", closely related to a group of tablets belonging to the archives of Ur-Utu at Tell ed-Der. The seal impressions on the tablets, both text and representation, are studied by G. Voet, providing copies and description.

Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia

Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia
Author: Aage Westenholz
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1987
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9788772890081

This book contains the 'Akkadian Texts' -- i.e. texts written in the Akkadian Language or script ductus -- the Enlilemaba Texts and the Onion Archive -- all three distinct archives from Nippur in Babylonia from the time of Naram-Sin and Sharkalisharri (c. 2250-2175 BC). The texts in the Akkadian archive deal with Sharkalisharri's rebuilding of Ekur, the great Temple of Enlil at Nippur. The Enlilemaba texts are the business records of a family of private citizens, and are the earliest known examples of this type of documentation from Mesopotamia. The Onion archive records the local governor's cultivation and distribution of onions, and illustrates his relations with the Imperial Sargonic government.The book is the second volume in a planned series of three tomes, OSP I-III, publishing the Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia. It contains the archaeological records of the individual texts, a list of joins and a concordance of museum numbers; copies, transliterations and translations of the texts as

Mining the Archives

Mining the Archives
Author: C. B. F. Walker
Publisher: Islet-Verlag
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2002
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: