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The ancient Orient : an introduction to the study of the ancient Near East /
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, ©1994.Description: xx, 262 pages. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN: - 0802801420 (pbk.)
- 9780802801425 (pbk.)
- Einfuhrung in die Altorientalistik. English
- 939/.4 20
- DS57 .S5813 1994
- 15.51
Partial contents:
I. The Term "Ancient Orient" and Its Demarcation -- II. The Scene -- III. Peoples and Cultures in the Ancient Orient -- 1. The Ancient Oriental Cultures before 3000: The Sumerians -- 2. The Semites in Western Asia -- 3. Hurrians and Urartians -- 4. Peoples and Cultures in Western Iran -- 5. Asia Minor: Proto-Hattians, Luwians, and Hittites -- 6. The Coalescence of Peoples -- IV. Writing and Systems of Writing -- 1. Sumerian Writing and Cuneiform -- 2. The Hittite Hieroglyphs (the Luwian Pictograms) -- 3. The Phoenician Alphabetic Script and Its Predecessors -- 4. Alphabetic Scripts in Cuneiform: Ugaritic and the Old Persian Script -- V. The History of Ancient Western Asia: The Historical Sources -- 1. Chronology: King Lists, Date Lists, and Eponym Lists -- 2. Sources for Political History --
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-254) and index.
I. The Term "Ancient Orient" and Its Demarcation -- II. The Scene -- III. Peoples and Cultures in the Ancient Orient -- 1. The Ancient Oriental Cultures before 3000: The Sumerians -- 2. The Semites in Western Asia -- 3. Hurrians and Urartians -- 4. Peoples and Cultures in Western Iran -- 5. Asia Minor: Proto-Hattians, Luwians, and Hittites -- 6. The Coalescence of Peoples -- IV. Writing and Systems of Writing -- 1. Sumerian Writing and Cuneiform -- 2. The Hittite Hieroglyphs (the Luwian Pictograms) -- 3. The Phoenician Alphabetic Script and Its Predecessors -- 4. Alphabetic Scripts in Cuneiform: Ugaritic and the Old Persian Script -- V. The History of Ancient Western Asia: The Historical Sources -- 1. Chronology: King Lists, Date Lists, and Eponym Lists -- 2. Sources for Political History --
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