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Ancient Mesopotamia speaks : highlights of the Yale Babylonian Collection

Title: Ancient Mesopotamia speaks : highlights of the Yale Babylonian Collection / edited by Agnete W. Lassen, Eckart Frahm, Klaus Wagensonner.
Publication: New Haven, CT : Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, [2019]

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x, 306 pages : color illustrations, color map; 28 x 22 cm

Summary

"A stunning guide to the treasures housed within the Yale Babylonian Collection, presenting new perspectives on the society and culture of the ancient Near East, The Yale Babylonian Collection houses virtually every genre, type, and period of ancient Mesopotamian writing, ranging from about 3000 B.C.E. to the early Christian Era. Among its treasures are tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh and other narratives, the world's oldest recipes, a large corpus of magic spells and mathematical texts, stunning miniature art carved on seals, and poetry by the first named author in world history, the princess Enheduanna. This unique volume, the companion book to an exhibition at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History, celebrates the Yale Babylonian Collection and its formal affiliation with the museum. Included are essays by world-renowned experts on the exhibition themes, photographs and illustrations, and a catalog of artifacts in the collection that present the ancient Near East in the light of present-day discussion of lived experiences, focusing on family life and love, education and scholarship, identity, crime and transgression, demons, and sickness"--

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Catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-302) and index.

Contents

The Yale Babylonian collection / Agnete W. Lassen -- History and geography of Mesopotamia / Eckart Frahm -- Cuneiform writing: origins, history, decipherment / Eckart Frahm and Klaus Wagensonner -- Deities, demons, and monsters in Mesopotamia / Gina Konstantopoulos -- Kings and conflict / Amanda H. Podany -- Justice, crime, and punishment / Martha T. Roth -- Mesopotamian economy and trade / Gojko Barjamovic -- Women, family life, and gender roles in ancient Mesopotamia / Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Saana Svärd -- Food in ancient Mesopotamia: cooking the Yale Babylonian recipes / Gojko Barjamovic, et al. -- Mesopotamian medicine and the body / Ulrike Steinert -- Becoming a scribe: on aspects of education and apprenticeship in ancient Mesopotamia / Klaus Wagensonner -- Mesopotamian literature / Enrique Jiménez -- Scholars, diviners, learned kings / Eckart Frahm -- Mesopotamian ideas of the past / Mary Frazer -- Time and space in ancient Mesopotamia / John Steele -- Number culture: old Babylonian mathematics at Yale / Eduardo A. Escobar -- A world in color: polychromy of Assyrian sculpture / Shiyanthi Thavapalan.

Call Number

JFF 19-2396

ISBN

9781933789378
1933789379

LCCN

2019005376

OCLC

1085621749

Title

Ancient Mesopotamia speaks : highlights of the Yale Babylonian Collection / edited by Agnete W. Lassen, Eckart Frahm, Klaus Wagensonner.

Publisher

New Haven, CT : Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-302) and index.

Added Author

Lassen, Agnete W., 1979- editor.

Frahm, Eckart, editor.

Wagensonner, Klaus, editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 19-2396

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