"The period of the demise of the kingdom of Judah at the end of the 6th century B.C.E., the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians, the exile of the elite to Babylon, and the reshaping of the territory of the new province of Judah, culminating at the end of the century with the fi…
"In the 1920s it was recognized, largely as a result of work by Otto Neugebauer and his collaborators, that Babylonian cuneiform tablets included many mathematical texts. Some were concerned with metrology and computation, while others contained mathematical problems. Many of th…
Rulers of Babylonia - RIMB 2
by Frame, Grant
fromRIM The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia
This is the sixth volume of ancient cuneiform texts being prepared under the auspices of The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, and the first volume for the Babylonian periods. The purpose of the project is to locate and publish standard editions of the texts known as the Royal …
Annotation
The historical background of the Anu cult -- Theological and ideological aspects of the Anu cult -- The tablet (AO 6460) and the text (TU 41) -- The ritual's calendrical setting -- Analysis of TU 41 -- Interpretation of TU 41 "In The Revival of the Anu Cult and the Nocturnal Fi…
"The rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved that even the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians together did not constitute the ancient world. These peoples had nothing to do with the begi…