Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence P. R. S. Moorey
Publisher: Eisenbrauns

In Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), P. If the networks we see in the ancient evidence correspond to networks generated from the computational simulation of our models for the ancient economy, we have a powerful tool for exploring antiquity, for playing with different ideas about how the ancient world worked (cf. Social networks can be discerned in archaeological materials since artefacts are the direct result of social relationships (Knappett 2011; Coward 2010; Graham and Ruffini 2007: 325-331). Useful, especially for students, in addition to the references cited by C., are: P.R.S. Tayinat Archaeological Project Online. Moorey, Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries. One of the Anyone who has perused the whole of the material is struck by the remarkable fact that Etemenanki [the fabulous ziggurat of Babylon] is nowhere mentioned in the description of the course of the [akitu] festival though numerous other sacred localities in Babylon are referred to. The procedure for building the temple—decision of the king, confirmation by god, securing materials and labour, planning the building, inauguration and the king's prayer, all followed in 1 Kings 5-8—is that commonly attested in Mesopotamia from Gudea of Lacash on. Tayinat Archaeological Project. Yet, biblicist archaeologists, who would be struck off the register if they were doctors, have doctored so much archaeological evidence that religious punters today think Solomon is a well established historical figure. The Bronze and Iron Ages marked the emergence and development of early state ordered civilizations in the ancient Near East. The Archaeological Evidence (Oxford, 1994, BMCR 95.12.12) on glass pp. It is the southern Mesopotamian backdrop that provides the basis for studying the account in light of what is known of the culture and history of Mesopotamia.