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The Babylonian World - Historia Antigua

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ILLUSTRATIONS<br />

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FIGURES<br />

2.1 Sustaining areas of <strong>Babylonian</strong> settlements 21<br />

3.1 <strong>The</strong> middle Euphrates valley today, from the ruins of<br />

Doura Europos 40<br />

3.2 A map of the middle Euphrates valley showing the different<br />

cultivated zones 43<br />

4.1 Archaic sign for ‘ard’, ‘farmer’ and ‘to plough’ 55<br />

4.2 Soil preparation with hoes 57<br />

4.3 Seal impression showing animal traction, working team and<br />

seeding plough 61<br />

5.1 Plan of Nippur, c.1500 BC 75<br />

6.1 A hypothetical reconstruction of the temple at Tell Rimah 85<br />

6.2 Plan of the temple at Tell Rimah 86<br />

6.3 ‘Barley sugar’ pillars at Tell Rimah 88<br />

7.1 Warrior king, Lama and small naked woman 96<br />

7.2 Lama, the warrior king and the goddess Ishtar 96<br />

7.3 Representations of the Lama goddess 97<br />

7.4 Presentation scene before seated king 98<br />

7.5 Impressions of seals, probably of the seventeenth century BC,<br />

showing the use of cutting wheel and drill 98<br />

7.6 Envelope fragment from Sippar with impressions of a <strong>Babylonian</strong><br />

presentation scene, and a seal combining <strong>Babylonian</strong> and Syrian<br />

motifs 99<br />

7.7 Impression of purkullu seal 100<br />

7.8 Nude hero fighting bull-man; nude hero fighting lion; naked<br />

woman; Ishtar; filling motifs 101<br />

7.9 Four winds; small storm god on lion-dragon; small priest;<br />

filling motifs 102<br />

7.10 Presentation scene before seated goddess 102<br />

7.11 Lama; king with offering; the sun god Shamash; lightning<br />

fork of the storm god Adad 103<br />

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