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Description edit
This book represents the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary presentation of ancient Near Eastern civilization. The author's study includes treatments of the history of language and systems of writing, the state and society, nutrition and agriculture, artisanry, economics, law, science,... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Mari: Add a description of this character.
- W. Von Soden
- Elam
- Gilgamesh
- Shamash
- A. Salonen
- Xiii
- Enki
- R. Borger
- Dumuzi
- D. O. Edzard
- B. Landsberger
- U. Seidl
- Sennacherib
- Ashurbanipal
- Enlil
- A. K. Grayson
- E. Ebeling
- Shalmaneser
- A. Moortgat
- S. N. Kramer
- H. Hunger
- Gudea
- R. C. Thompson
- A. Falkenstein
- Kish
- E. A. Speiser
- F. R. Kraus
- E. Strommenger
- W. Rollig
- Hittite
- E. Reiner
- G. Lambert
- R. Labat
- A. L. Oppenheim
- Mesopotamien
- B. Hrouda
- H. Otten
- W. Heimpel
- J. Bottero
- R. D. Biggs
- E. Von Weiher
- Viii
- Vogel
Setting & Locations edit
- Babylonia
- Assyria
- Mesopotamia
- Asia Minor
- Uruk
- Iran
- Egypt
- Ebla
- Marduk
- Israel
- Leipzig
- Helsinki
- South Arabia
- Berlin
- Rome
- Paris
- Ugaritic
- Western Asia
- Wiesbaden
- Leiden
- Akkad
- Nineveh
- Lagash
- Nuzi
- Anatolia
- Sumer
- Iraq
- Kassite
- Hammurabi
- Urartu
- New York
- Greece
- Palestine
- Philadelphia
- Ancient Near East
- Nippur
- Darmstadt
- India
- Malibu
- Chicago
- Ninurta
- Stuttgart
- Armenia
- Munich
- New Haven
First Sentence edit
Orient is not a term of physical geography, as is also true of the designation Near East, which comprises the same region.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Wolfram von Soden (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 939.4
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