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Eisenbrauns
Language
English
Pages
410

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Cover of: Mesopotamian cosmic geography
Mesopotamian cosmic geography
1998, Eisenbrauns
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Mesopotamian cosmic geography
1986, University of Birmingham
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Part I: Sources for Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography
1. The Levels of the Universe: KAR 307 30-38 and AO 8196 iv 20-223
2. "The Babylonian Map of the World"20
3. The Flights of Etana and the Eagle into the Heavens43
4. The Sargon Geography67
5. Gilgamesh and the Distant Reaches of the Earth's Surface 96
6. Cosmic Geography in Accounts of Creation 107
7. The Geography of the Sky: The "Astrolabes', Mul-Apin, and Related Texts150
8. BagM. Beih. 2 no. 98 and the Compass Points193
9. "Seven Heavens and Seven Earths"208
Part II: The Regions of the Universe
Names for Heaven223
11. The Geography of the Heavens243
12. Names for Earth268
13. The Geography of Earth318
Appendixes363
Indexes369
Subject Index369
Ancient Texts and Modern Editions382
Sumerian and Akkadian Terms391
Stars3 9 7
Plates399.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Winona Lake, Ind
Series
Mesopotamian civilizations ;, [8]
Genre
Texts.

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Dewey Decimal Class
113/.0935
Library of Congress
B147.C68 H67 1998

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Pagination
xiv, 410 p., 10 p. of plates :
Number of pages
410

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL357850M
Internet Archive
mesopotamiancosm00horo
ISBN 10
0931464994
LCCN
98017770
OCLC/WorldCat
38936635
Library Thing
3291472
Goodreads
826953

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