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The greatness that was Babylon: a survey of the ancient civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley
Sidgwick and Jackson • London • Published In 1988 • Pages: xxii, 487
By: Saggs, H. W. F..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This comprehensive and topically-organized work covers the history (using the middle chronology) and culture of Mesopotamia, including the Sumerians, Assyrians, and Babylonians. There is particular concentration on marriage, gender, family, law, trade and commerce, religion and magic, astronomy, and mathematics, much of it Sumerian in origin.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- History
- Writing
- Verbal arts
- Visual arts
- Cities
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Priesthood
- Texts translated into english
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Babylonians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Linguist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2900–539 BC
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- H. W. F. Saggs
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-475) and indexes
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90195925
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Babylonia--History