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Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (Greenwood Press "Daily Life Through History" Series) Hardcover – September 24, 1998
The ancient world of Mesopotamia (from Sumer to the subsequent division into Babylonia and Assyria) vividly comes alive in this portrayal of the time period from 3100 bce to the fall of Assyria (612 bce) and Babylon (539 bce). Readers will discover fascinating details about the lives of these people from the society where writing began—taken from the ancients' own quotations and descriptions. A wealth of information is provided on such varied topics as: education; literature; mathematics and science; city vs. country life; family life; and religion. Similarities between daily life in ancient Mesopotamia and modern-day Iraq are also discussed. Beautifully illustrated, this easy-to-use reference contains a timeline and an historical overview to aid student research.
- Print length368 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGreenwood Pub Group
- Publication dateSeptember 24, 1998
- Dimensions6.5 x 1.25 x 10.25 inches
- ISBN-100313294976
- ISBN-13978-0313294976
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About the Author
Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat was the first woman to receive her PhD in Ancient Near Eastern/Eastern Languages, History and Cultures at Columbia University. She is the author of a forthcoming Catalogue of the Babylonian Collections at Yale, Cuneiform Mathematical Texts as a Reflection of Everyday Life in Mesopotamia, and Late Babylonian Field Plans in the British Museum. She is currently working on her fifth book. She has also taught at University of Connecticut at Stamford and has held two fellowships at Yale.
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- Publisher : Greenwood Pub Group; 0 edition (September 24, 1998)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0313294976
- ISBN-13 : 978-0313294976
- Item Weight : 1.8 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 1.25 x 10.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,895,886 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #525 in Iraq History (Books)
- #583 in Ancient Mesopotamia History
- #674 in Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer History
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About the author
Born in Boston, Karen Nemet-Nejat is the first woman to graduate with a PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Studies from Columbia University and the first person "Distinction" to receive from her advisor, the late Professor W.W. Hallo, Yale University and has done numerous research projects in affiliation with the institution.
Nemet-Nejat has published several books based on her research in various fields of cuneiform studies, including field plans, mathematical texts as well as in depth research on daily life and culture of Ancient Mesopotamia.
In addition she has published numerous articles including Religion of the Common People in Mesopotamia, Leisure, Recreation, and Daily Life, and the role of Women in Ancient Mesopotamia, to name only a few of the broad and various topics she has covered.
She has given several presentations on these and many other topics over the years earning her international prestige within the Ancient Near Eastern Studies community.
Her work experience ranges from visiting scholar at Yale University to visiting Professor at the Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, where she taught Comparative Mythology, on Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek and Anatolian Mythology.
Among several awards she was granted the National Endowment for Humanities as part of the Yale team cataloging the Babylonian tablets; Nemet-Nejat catalogued the mathematical tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection.
Dr. Nemet-Nejat has
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All books I've read, however, make the same error about the map pictured on the cover of an earlier version of this book--a circle with triangular shapes coming from it. This map is often mistakenly cited as partly being of Scandinavia, as it has been translated as "country where the sun has not been seen." An understandable mistake, but what it actually signifies is unknown country--no one has seen the sun there because no one from the known world at the time had explored it. A more comprehensive (intact) map would have shown that this symbol was only one part of the world, not the entire world.
I hope Ms. Nemet-Nejat accepts this bit of information in the spirit in which it is offered. :-)
This book used to be one of the best Sumer and Akkad references a person could buy. I depend heavily on both Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) and Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation(Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History) but I can no longer recommend either book because the pricing for the Kindle versions has become insane and greedy.
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ph.d. student in pol. sciences & history
The insights into education, religion, writing, and recreation were most interesting.