book chapter
Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon
Everyday life in Babylonia and Assyria • London • Published In 1965 • Pages: 156-180
By: Saggs, H. W. F..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Utilizing archaeological and written records, this work describes the architecture and culture of the city of Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, and imaginatively reconstructs a day in the life of a goldsmith living there.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Water supply
- Smiths and their crafts
- Dwellings
- Furniture
- Building interiors and arrangement
- Settlement patterns
- Streets and traffic
- Utensils
- Real property
- Daily routine
- Slavery
- Chief executive
- Executive household
- Administrative agencies
- 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 chapter
- 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
- 605–562 BC
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Babylon, Al-Mahawil district, Bābil, Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] H. W. F. Saggs. Drawings by Helen Nixon Fairfield
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65002284
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Babylonia