AU  - Oppenheim, A. Leo,
TI  - Ancient Mesopotamia : : portrait of a dead civilization 
AV  - DS69.5 O67 1964
PY  - 1964///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Civilization
KW  - To 634
N1  - Includes index; Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 353-378) "Bibliographical notes": p. 379-387; 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
ER  -