Description |
ix, 433 pages : illustrations, maps (1 folded in pocket) portrait ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 353-378) "Bibliographical notes": pages 379-387. |
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. |
Subject |
Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.
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Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Oppenheim, A. Leo, 1904-1974. Ancient Mesopotamia: portrait of a dead civilization. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1964] (OCoLC)579406760 |
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Online version: Oppenheim, A. Leo, 1904-1974. Ancient Mesopotamia: portrait of a dead civilization. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1964] (OCoLC)610175060 |
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