Research Catalog

Title

Everyday life in ancient Mesopotamia / by Jean Bottéro ; with contributions from André Finet, Bertrand Lafont, and Georges Roux ; translated by Antonia Nevill.

Author

Bottéro, Jean.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Finet, André.
• Lafont, Bertrand.
• Roux, Georges.
• Nevill, Antonia.

Description

xi, 276 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Iraq > Antiquities
• Iraq > Civilization > To 634
• Iraq > History > To 634

Note

• Originally published: Initiation à l'Orient ancien. Paris : Societé d'Editions Scientifiques, 1992.
• Translated from the French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-272) and index.

Contents

pt. 1. Origins -- Did the Sumerians emerge from the sea? ; The great enigma of the cemetery at Ur / Georges Roux -- pt. 2. Everyday life -- The oldest cuisine in the world ; The oldest feast / Jean Bottéro -- An ancient vintage / André Finet -- Love and sex in Babylon ; Women's rights / Jean Bottéro -- The women of the palace at Mari / Bertrand Lafont -- Semiramis : the builder of Babylon / Georges Roux -- Magic and medicine ; The birth of astrology / Jean Bottéro -- The ordeal / Bertrand Lafont -- pt. 3. Myth and legend -- The first account of the flood ; The epic of Gilgamesh ; How sin was born / Jean Bottéro.

Call Number

*OCM 01-10396

ISBN

• 0748613870
• 0748613889 (pbk.)

OCLC

47917041

Author

Bottéro, Jean.

Title

Everyday life in ancient Mesopotamia / by Jean Bottéro ; with contributions from André Finet, Bertrand Lafont, and Georges Roux ; translated by Antonia Nevill.

Imprint

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2001.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-272) and index.

Added Author

Finet, André.

Lafont, Bertrand.

Roux, Georges.

Nevill, Antonia.

Research Call Number

*OCM 01-10396