Oppenheim, A. Leo,  1904-1974. <br/><br/>
Ancient Mesopotamia :   portrait of a dead civilization / 
by A. Leo Oppenheim. 
 - Chicago ;  London :  University of Chicago Press,  c1964. 
 - ix, 433 p. :  illus., maps (1 fold. in pocket) port. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 353-378) "Bibliographical notes": p. 379-387. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : Assyriology-Why and How? -- I.  The Making of Mesopotamia -- The Background -- The Setting -- The Actors -- The World Around -- II. Go to, Let us build us a city and a tower -- The Social Texture -- Economic Facts -- "The Great Organizations" -- The City -- Urbanism -- III. Regnum a gente in gentem transfertur -- Historical Sources or Literature? -- An Essay on Babylonian History -- An Essay on Assyrian History -- IV. Nah ist - und schwer zu fassen de Gott -- Why a " Mesopotamian Religion" should not be Written -- The Care and feeding of the Gods -- Mesopotamian "Psychology -- The Arts of the Diviner -- V. Laterculis coctilibus -- The Meaning of writing -- The scribes -- The Creative effort -- Patterns in non-Literary Texts -- VI. There are many strange wonders, but nothing more wonderful than man -- Medicine and Physicians -- Mathematics and Astronomy -- Craftsmen and Artists. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.   
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Iraq--Civilization--To 634.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS69.5  / O67 1964