Book
The Babylonians: an introduction
Routledge • London • Published In 2003 • Pages:
By: Leick, Gwendolyn.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This comprehensive overview of Babylonian history, society and culture—which adheres to the middle chronology and strays relatively little into discussions of other, overlapping Mesopotamian cultural phases—is organized topically into chapters on the natural setting and perceptions of world as revealed in cuneiform writings, political history, socioeconomic organization and institutions, spirituality and religion, and material culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- History
- Writing
- Dwellings
- Furniture
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Real property
- Borrowing and lending
- Mercantile business
- Household
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Political intrigue
- Revolution
- Medical therapy
- Spirits and gods
- Theological systems
- Revelation and divination
- Priesthood
- Congregations
- Organized ceremonial
- 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.
- Historian
- 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
- 1894–539 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
- Gwendolyn Leick
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian. Babylon (Extinct city)--Social life and customs
- Babylon (Extinct city)--Social conditions
- Babylon (Extinct city)--History