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Author: Geoffrey Turner
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-12
Total Pages: 814
ISBN-13: 9004435379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeoffrey Turner's definitive study of the mid-19th century excavations by the British Museum at the Assyrian site of Nineveh documents the complete history of these excavations and provides detailed reconstructions of the architecture and sculpture in the palace of Sennacherib.
Author: Davide Nadali
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2022-06-30
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1803271116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix articles by leading scholars on the culture of the Assyrian world pay homage to Paolo Matthiae, known internationally for the discovery of the site of ancient Ebla in Syria. The articles deal with different aspects of Assyrian culture, with innovative and sometimes unexpected points of view, including its reception in the modern world.
Author: Josette Elayi
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Published: 2023-02-15
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1957454954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEsarhaddon, King of Assyria continues Josette Elayi's narrative journey through the lives of the kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Using both archaeological and textual evidence, Elayi examines the contentious circumstances surrounding Esarhaddon's accession to the throne in 681 BCE, his rebuilding of Babylon, which had been destroyed by his father Sennacherib, his successful campaigns in Media, the Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, the Caucasus, and the Levant, and his ultimate achievement, the conquest of Egypt in 671 BCE. Throughout, Elayi presents a rich portrait of this enigmatic figure, whose short but impactful reign was plagued by chronic illness and a complex--and ultimately fatal--relationship with his court officials. Yet, through it all, Esarhaddon emerges as one of the most scholarly and most politically successful kings of the empire.
Author: J. Cale Johnson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-11-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1501506579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBabylonian medicine is the most important corpus of ancient medicine prior to the Greeks. This volume provides a comprehensive picture of how gasrtrointestinal illness, jaundice and related fevers, as well as diarrhea were treated in ancient Mesopotamia. The editions include transliterations, straightforward translations and essential commentary, and are divided into three main sections: the standard corpus for the treatment of gastrointestinal illness in Royal Library in Nineveh (otherwise known as the sualu subcorpus), the related group of texts that attribute intestinal disturbances to malevolent ghosts and a third group of texts focused on diarrhea. In addition to the standard compendia, isolated precursor texts, which were incorporated into these compendia, are included here in appendices. This volume provides an overarching picture of the entire field of gastrointestinal illnesses and related conditions in ancient Mesopotamia.
Author: T. C. Mitchell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-07-29
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780521368674
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The links between archaeology and the Bible have fascinated generations of archaeologists and biblical scholars who seek documentation of events narrated in the Bible. The British Museum's collections include numerous inscribed objects, scripts and pictorial reliefs which provide such evidence. There is, for example, a Babylonian clay tablet which records Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC, as narrated in the book of Jeremiah. For this book the author has selected over seventy such 'documents', mainly from Western Asia, with some examples included from Greece, Egypt and Asia Minor, dating from the period of the Patriarchs to the New Testament times, c. 2000 BC to c. AD 100. He transliterates and translates the ancient texts, which include Cuneiform, Aramaic and Hebrew, and discusses the contribution they make to our knowledge of the culture and history of biblical times. Each object is illustrated in black and white."--Back cover.
Author: Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-07-01
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13: 900440547X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book concentrates on the sometimes Greek but largely Roman survivals many travellers set out to see and perhaps possess throughout the immense Ottoman Empire, on what were eastward and southward extensions of the Grand Tour. Europeans were curious about the Empire, Christianity’s great rival for centuries, and plenty of information on its antiquities was available, offered here via lengthy quotations. Most accounts of the history of collecting and museums concentrate on the European end. Plundered Empire details how and where antiquities were sought, uncovered, bartered, paid for or stolen, and any tribulations in getting them home. The book provides evidence for the continuing debate about the ethics of museum collections, with 19th century international competition the spur to spectacular acquisitions.
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 1472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sir Leslie Stephen
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 1470
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lucas Pieter Petit
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789088904974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lavishly illustrated volume contains more than 65 chapters by international specialists, providing a detailed and thorough study of the Ancient city of Nineveh, the once-flourishing capital of the Assyrian Empire in present-day Iraq.
Author: Irving Finkel
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2020-12-16
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1789696089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'In Context: the Reade Festschrift' is a collection of invited and peer-reviewed essays by friends and colleagues of Julian Edgeworth Reade, sometime Mesopotamia curator at the British Museum from 1975 to 2000. Here is fresh work from which any reader can gain a new appreciation of the importance of the ancient Near East.
