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Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia Paperback – January 1, 2002
- Print length346 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHendrickson Pub
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2002
- Dimensions6 x 1 x 8.75 inches
- ISBN-101565637127
- ISBN-13978-1565637122
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ÂRobert D. Biggs, Professor of Assyriology, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
ÂThe author has here distilled the essence of a vast number of studies and translations to craft a synthesis that is at once authoritative and eminently readable.Â
ÂWilliam W. Hallo, The William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriolgy and Babylonian Literature, Yale University
ÂDaily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia is a welcome addition for those who teach introductory courses on Mesopotamian (or Near Eastern) civilization and have searched in vain for a useful supplemental text.Â
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- Publisher : Hendrickson Pub (January 1, 2002)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 346 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1565637127
- ISBN-13 : 978-1565637122
- Item Weight : 1.28 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 8.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,491,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #734 in Iraq History (Books)
- #817 in Ancient Mesopotamia History
- #923 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.