Research Catalog
Babylon
- Title
- Babylon / Joan Oates.
- Author
- Oates, Joan
- Publication
- London : Thames and Hudson, 1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DS71 .O35 1986g | Off-site | |
| Text | Use in library | N5370 Oa81 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 216 pages : 137 illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- In a highly acclaimed account, now brought up to date for the revised edition, Dr. Oates describes the rise of Babylon from Sargon of Agade to Hammurapi, the great law-giver under whom in the 18th century BC the city first attained pre-eminence. She charts its progress under his successors, its greatest period of empire during the reigns of Nebuchadrezzar and Nabonidus in the 6th century BC, and its decay and final abandonment as Persians and Greeks turned Mesopotamia into a battleground. Also includes information on administration, Alexander the Great, Elam, Epic of Gilgamesh, Euphrates, glass, gold, Hanging Gardens, Herodotus, Inanna, irrigation, Isin, kingship, Kish, Marduk, Mari, music, mythology, Nimrud, Nineveh, omens, Palestine, Parthian Empire, plough, Romans, sealings and seal impressions, Seleucid calendar, Semitic languages, Sin (Nanna, moon god), Sippar, slaves, Sumer, technology, trade, Uruk (Warka), vaulting, warfare, writing, ziggurrat, zodiac, etc.
- Series Statement
- Ancient peoples and places ; 94
- Uniform Title
- Ancient peoples and places (Thames and Hudson)
- Subjects
- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian
- Babylon
- Mésopotamie > Antiquités
- Babylonia > Antiquities
- Antiquités assyro-babyloniennes
- Middle East > Babylonia
- Babylone (ville ancienne)
- Civilisation assyro-babylonienne
- Iraq > Babylon (Extinct city)
- Antiquités sumériennes
- History
- Irak > Antiquités
- Babylonia > History
- Babylon (Extinct city) > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 211) and index.
- Contents
- From Sargon to Hammurapi -- The old Babylonian period -- Kassites and Chaldaeans -- Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians and Greeks -- The legacy of Babylon.
- ISBN
- 0500273847
- 9780500273845
- LCCN
- 78055197
- OCLC
- ocm34997357
- 34997357
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries