A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
©2007. PETER A. PICCIONE

Entries in this bibliography are listed first by subject-heading then by author. They are limited, for the most part, to works in the English language. Click on any headings below to jump to them in the bibliography.

Table of Contents

I. General Histories:
a. Near Eastern
b. Hittites
c. Mesopotamia
d. Phoenicia and Cyprus
e. Syria, Palestine, and Canaan

II. Mesopotamia: Prehistory and the Early Dynastic Period

III. Individual Historical Topics:
a. Hittites
b. Mesopotamia

IV. International Relations and Historiography:
a. Egypt and Mesopotamia: Early Contacts
b. Egypt and Mesopotamia: Later Contacts

V. Social History (Legal and Social Institutions, Daily Life):
a. Mesopotamia

VI. Women: Social Status and Position:
a. Mesopotamia

VII. Economy and Economic Institutions:
a. Mesopotamia

VIII. Geography, Land, and Environment:
a. Near Eastern
b. Mesopotamia

IX. Literature: Synthetical Studies:
a. Mesopotamia

X. Literature: Primary Texts and Anthologies:
a. Web Sources
b. Near Eastern
c. Mesopotamia
d. Syria, Palestine, and Canaan

XI. Language and the Origins of Writing:
a. Near East and Mesopotamia

XII. Art and Art History:
a. Near Eastern
b. Mesopotamia

XIII. Architecture and Archaeology:
a. Near Eastern
b. Mesopotamia

XIV. Calendar and Chronological Issues:
a. Near Eastern

XV. Religion and Magic:
a. Near Eastern
b. Hittites
c. Mesopotamia
d. Syria, Palestine, and Canaan

XVI. Medical Science and Palaeopathology:
a. Near East and Mesopotamia

XVII. Engineering, Science and Technology:
a. Mesopotamia


Citations List

I. General Histories

a. Near Eastern

Ehrich, R. W., editor. Chronologies in Old World Archaeology. 3rd ed., rev. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Kuhrt, A. The Ancient Near East. Two volumes. Routledge History of the Ancient World. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

Saggs, H. W. F. Civilization before Greece and Rome. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989.

Sasson, Jack M., editor. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Four volumes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.

Snell, D. C. Life in the Ancient Near East. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997.


b. Hittites

Bryce, T. The Kingdom of the Hittites. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Gurney, O. R. The Hittites. 2nd ed., rev. London: Viking-Penguin Books, 1990.

Macqueen, J. G. The Hittites and Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor. Revised edition, enlarged. New York and London: Thames and Hudson, 1996.


c. Mesopotamia

Bottero, J. Mesopotamia: Writings, Reasoning, and the Gods. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Crawford, Harriet E. Sumer and the Sumerians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Odjik, Pamela. The Sumerians. The Ancient World Series. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Silver Burdett Press, 1990.

Pofahl, Jane. Mesopotamia. The Time Traveler Series. Minneapolis: T.S. Denison & Company, Inc. 1993.

Kramer, Samuel Noah. Cradle of Civilization. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1967.

Kramer, Samuel Noah. History Begins at Sumer: Twenty-seven "Firsts" in Man's Recorded History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.

Oates, Joan. Babylon. Revised edition. New York and London: Thames and Hudson, 1986.

Olmstead, Albert T. E. History of Assyria. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Oppenheim, A. Leo. Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Civilization. Revised by E. Reiner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.

Oppenheim, A. Leo. Letters from Mesopotamia: Official, Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.

Postgate, Nicholas. Early Mesopotamian Society and Economy at the Dawn of History. London: Routledge, 1992.

Roaf, Michael. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

Roux, Georges. Ancient Iraq. 3rd edition. New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1992.

Saggs, H. F. W. The Greatness That Was Babylon. New York: Hawthorne Books, 1962.

Saggs, H. F. W. The Might That Was Assyria. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984.

Time-Life. Sumer: Cities of Eden. Lost Civilizations Series. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1994.

Time-Life. Mesopotamia: The Mighty Kings. Lost Civilizations Series. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1995.


d. Phoenicia and Cyprus

Aubet, María E. The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies, and Trade, trans. Mary Turton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Casson, Stanley. Ancient Cyprus: Its Art and Archaeology. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1970.

Harden, Donald B. The Phoenicians. New York: Praeger, 1962.

Herm, Gerhard. The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient World, trans. Caroline Hillier. New York: Morrow, 1975.

Karageorghis, Vassos. Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries in Cyprus. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.

Karageorghis, Vassos. View from the Bronze Age: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries at Kition. New York: Dutton, 1976.

Mitford, Terence B. The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1971.

Moscati, Sabatino. The World of the Phoenicians, trans. Alastair Hamilton. New York: Praeger, 1968.


e. Syria, Palestine, and Canaan

Curtis, Adrian. Ugarit (Ras Shamra). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1985.

Dothan, T. The Philistines and Their Material Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

Dothan, T. and Dothan, M. The Peoples of the Sea: The Search for the Philistines. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Pettinato, G. Ebla: A New Look at History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Gray, John. The Canaanites. New York: Praeger, 1965.

Kenyon, Kathleen M. Amorites and Canaanites. London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1966.

Matthiae, Paolo. Ebla: An Empire Rediscovered. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981.

Milano, C. "Ebla: A Third Millennium City-State in Ancient Syria." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 1219-1231. Volume 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.

Pettinato, Giovanni. The Archives of Ebla: An Empire Inscribed in Clay. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981.


II. Mesopotamia: Prehistory and the Early Dynastic Period

Algaze, Guillermo. The Uruk World System: the Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Mark, Samuel. From Egypt to Mesopotamia: A Study of Predynastic Trade Routes. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press; London: Chatham, 1997.

Nissen, H. J. The Early History of the Ancient Near East. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Postgate, N. Early Mesopotamian Society and Economy at the Dawn of History. London: Routledge, 1992.

Yoffee, Norman and Clark, Jeffery J. eds. Early Stages in the Evolution of Mesopotamian Civilization: Soviet Excavations in Northern Iraq. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993.


III. Individual Historical Topics

b. Hittites

Beckman, G. Hittite Diplomatic Texts, edited by H. A. Hoffner. Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World Series. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.

Osten, Hans H. von der. Explorations in Hittite Asia Minor. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1971.


c. Mesopotamia

Læssøe, Jørgen. People of Ancient Assyria, Their Inscriptions and Correspondence, trans F. S. Leigh-Browne. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1963.

Luckenbill, Daniel D. Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia. New York, Greenwood Press, 1926; reprinted 1968.

Grayson, A. Kirk. Babylonian Historical-literary Texts. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1975.

Finkelstein, Jacob J. Late Old Babylonian Documents and Letters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.

Simmons, Stephen D. Early Old Babylonian Documents. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

Gadd, Cyril J. History and Monuments of Ur. New York, B. Blom, 1972.

Woolley, Leonard, Sir. Ur 'Of the Chaldees': A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur, by P.R.S. Moorey. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1982.

Wiseman, Donald J. Nebuchadrezzar and Babylon. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1985.

Mallowan, Max E. L., Sir. Nimrud and its Remains. London, Collins, 1966.

Malamat, Abraham. Mari and the Early Israelite Experience. Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1989.

Ellis, Richard S. A Bibliography of Mesopotamian Archaeological Sites. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1972.

Jacobsen, Thorkild. Toward the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture. Edited by William L. Moran. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1970.

Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Sumerian King List. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1939.

Parpola, Simo. Letters from Assyria and the West: The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1987.

Time-Life. Time Frame: Barbarian Tides, 1500 - 600 B.C. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, Inc., 1987.

Roth, M. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World 6. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Ussishkin, David. The Conquest of Lachish by Sennacherib. Tel Aviv, Israel: Tel Aviv University Publications, 1982.

Winhelm, "The Kingdom of Mitanni in 2nd Millennium Upper Mesopotamia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 1243-1255. Volume 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.


IV. International Relations and Historiography

Egypt and Mesopotamia: Early Contacts

Amiet, P. "Glyptique susienne archaïque." Revue d'Assyriologie 51 (1957): 121-29.

Frankfort, H. "The Origin of Monumental Architecture in Egypt." American Journal of Semitic Languages 58 (1941): 329-58.

Kantor, H. J. "The Early Relations of Egypt with Asia." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 1 (1942): 174-213.

Kantor, H. J. "Further Evidence for Early Mesopotamian Relations with Egypt." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 11 (1952): 239-50.

Kantor, H. J. "The Relative Chronology of Egypt and Its Foreign Correlations before the Late Bronze Age." In Chronologies in Old World Archaeology, ed. R. W. Ehrich, 1-46. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Kantor, H. J. "The Relative Chronology of Egypt and Its Foreign Correlations before the First Intermediate Period." In Chronologies in Old World Archaeology, 2d edition, revised, 3-22. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kelley, A. L. "Cylinder Seals in Predynastic Egypt." Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 4/2 (1973): 5-8.

Kelley, A. L. "The Evidence for Mesopotamian Influence in Predynastic Egypt." Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 4/3 (1974): 2-11.

Mark, Samuel. From Egypt to Mesopotamia: A Study of Predynastic Trade Routes. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press; London: Chatham, 1997.

Ward, W. A. "Relations between Egypt and Mesopotamia from Prehistoric Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 7 (1964): 1-45, 121-35.


b. Egypt and Mesopotamia: Later Contacts

Ben-Tor, A. "New Light on the Relations between Egypt and Southern Palestine during the Early Bronze Age." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 3-10.

Bietak, M. "Egypt and Canaan during the Middle Bronze Age." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 27-72.

Dever, W. G. "Tell el-Daba` and Levantine Middle Bronze Age Chronology: A Rejoinder to Manfred Bietak." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 73-79.

Frerichs, E. and Lesko, L. H., editors. Exodus: The Egyptian Evidence. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1977.

Hoffmeier, J. K. Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Hoffmeier, J. K. "James Weinstein's 'Egypt and the Middle Bronze IIC/Late Bronze IA Transition': A Rejoinder." Levant 23 (1991): 117-24.

Hoffmeier, James K. "Reconsidering Egypt's Part in the Termination of the Middle Bronze Age in Palestine." Levant 21 (1989): 181-93.

Redford, D. B. Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Ward, W. A. "Early Contacts between Egypt, Canaan and Sinai: Remarks on the Paper by Amnon Ben-Tor." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 11-26.

Weinstein, J. "Egypt and the Middle Bronze IIC/Late Bronze IA Transition in Palestine." Levant 23 (1991): 105-15.

Wood, B. G. "The Philistines Enter Canaan." Biblical Archaeology Review 17/6 (Nov/Dec., 1991): 44-52.


V. Social History (Legal and Social Institutions, Daily Life)

b. Mesopotamia

Michalowski, Piotr, trans. Letters from Early Mesopotamia, ed. Erica Reiner. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1993.

Saggs, H. W. F. Everyday Life in Babylonia and Assyria. London: B.T. Batsford ; New York: Putnam, 1965.

Bottero, Jean. "The Cuisine of Ancient Mesopotamia," Biblical Archaeologist (March 1985): 36-47.

Conteneau, George. Everyday Life in Babylonia and Assyria. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1966.

Dandamayev, M. A. "About Life Expectancy in Babylonia in the First Millennium B.C." In Death in Mesopotamia, ed. B. Alster, in the journal Mesopotamia 8 (1980): 183ff.

Fiero, Gloria. Origins of the Humanistic Tradition: The First Civilizations and the Classical Legacy. The Humanistic Tradition Series. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown Communications, 1992.

Greengus, S. "Legal and Social Institutions of Ancient Mesopotamia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 469-484. Volume 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.

Kilmer, Anne. "Sounds From Silence." Bit Enki Recordings and Publications: Berkeley, 1976. (LP Record and accompanying 26-page booklet on Babylonian music and musical instruments recovered during archaeological excavations. Order from Prof. Anne Kilmer, Department of Near Eastern Studies, 250 Barrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-1940.)

Klein, J. "The 'Bane' of Humanity: A Lifespan of One Hundred Twenty Years," Acta Sumerologica 12 (1990), 57-70.

Malamat, A. "Longevity: Biblical Concepts and Some Ancient Near Eastern Parallels," Archiv für Orientforschung, Beiheft 19 (1982): 215, 221, no. 5.

Mendelsohn, Isaac. "Slavery in the Ancient Near East." Biblical Archaeologist 9 (1946): 74-88.

Morin, Etienne. Une ville en Mesopotamie sous Nabuchodonosor: Babylon. Paris: Albin Michel Jeunesse, 1984.

Oppenheim, Leo. Letters from Mesopotamia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Poliakoff, Michael. Contact Sports in the Ancient World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Postgate, J. N. "Royal Ideology and State Administration in Sumer and Akkad." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 395-412. Volume 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.

Roaf, M. "Palaces and Temples in Ancient Mesopotamia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 423-442. Volume 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.

Robertson, J. F. "Social and Economic Organization of Ancient Mesopotamian Temples." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 443-454. Volume 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.

Roth, Martha. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. Scholars Press: Atlanta, 1995.

Stol, M. "Private Life in Ancient Mesopotamia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 485-502. Volume 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.

Stol M. and S. P. Vleeming, The Care of the Elderly in the Ancient Near East. Leiden, 1998.

Time Life. Time Frame: 3000-1500 B.C.: The Age of God Kings. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1987.


VI. Women: Social Status and Position

b. Mesopotamia

Barber, Elizabeth Wayland. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994.

Brosius, Maria. Women in Ancient Persia (559-331 BC). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Freeman, David Noel. "Women: Mesopotamia." The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Volume 6. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Roth, Martha. "The Doweries of the Women of the Itti-Marduk-balatu Family." Journal of the American Oriental Society 111 (1991): 19-37.

Roth, Martha. "Marriage and Matrimonial Prestations in First Millennium BC Babylonia." In Women's Earliest Records, ed. Barbara S. Lesko, 245-55. Brown Judaic Studies, no. 166. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.

Roth, Martha. "The Material Composition of the Neo-Babylonian Dowry," Archiv für Orientforschung 36-37 (1989-1990): 1-55.

Roth, Martha. "The Neo-Babylonian Family and Household," Bulletin of the Society for Mesopotamian Studies, 1994, 19-29.

Roth, Martha. "The Neo-Babylonian Widow." Journal of Cuneiform Studies 43-45 (1991-1993): 1-26.

Roth, Martha. "'She Will Die by the Iron Dagger.' Adultery and Neo-Babylonian Marriage," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 31 (198x): 186-206.

Van Der Toon, Karel. From Her Cradle to Her Grave. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.


VII. Economy and Economic Institutions

b. Mesopotamia

Astour, M. C. "Overland Trade Routes in Ancient Western Asia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 1401-1420. Volume 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.

Joannés, F. "Private Commerce and Banking in Achaemenid Babylon." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 1475-1486. Volume 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.

Robertson, J. F. "Social and Economic Organization of Ancient Mesopotamian Temples." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 443-454. Volume 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.

Snell, D. C. "Methods of Exchange and Coinage in Ancient Western Asia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 1487-1499. Volume 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.

Yoffee, N. "The Economy of Ancient Western Asia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 1387-1400. Volume 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.


X. Geography, Land, and Environment
a. Near East

Butzer, K. "Environmental Change in the Near East." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 123-152. Volume 1. New York: Scribner, 1995.

Eyre, C. "Agricultural Cycle, Farming, and Water Management." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 175-190. Volume 1. New York: Scribner, 1995.


Mesopotamia

Walters, Stanley D. Water for Larsa: An Old Babylonian Archive Dealing with Irrigation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.


IX. Literature: Synthetical Studies

A. Mesopotamia

Bryson, Bernarda. Gilgamesh: Man's First Story. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966.

Kluger, Rivkah S. The Archetypal Significance of Gilgamesh: A Modern Ancient Hero, ed. H. Yehezkel Kluger. Einsiedeln, Switzerland: Daimon, 1991.

Kramer, Samuel Noah. The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1963.

McCall, Henrietta. Mesopotamian Myths. London: British Museum Publications, 1990.


X. Literature: Primary Texts and Anthologies

a. Web Sources

Abzu: A Guide to Information Related to the Study of the Ancient Near East on the Web. N.B.: You can use the search engine in Abzu to identify Etana Core Texts.

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)

Etana: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook


b. Near Eastern

Hallo, W., editor. The Context of Scripture: Canonical Compositions, Monumental Inscriptions, and Archival Documents from the Biblical World. Four volumes. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1977-. Vol. 1, Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World. 1977. Vol. 2, Monumental Inscriptions from the Biblical World. 2000.

Pritchard, J. B., editor. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950, 1955.


c. Mesopotamia

George, Andrew. The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1999.

Lambert, W. G. and A. R. Millard. Atra-hasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood, with The Sumerian Flood story, by M. Civil. Oxford; Clarendon Press, 1969.

Kovacs, Maureen Gallery. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.


e. Syria, Palestine, and Canaan

Coogan, Michael D., trans. Stories from Ancient Canaan. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1978.


XIII. Language and the Origins of Writing

a. Near East and Mesopotamia

Chiera, Edward. They Wrote on Clay: the Babylonian Tablets Speak Today, ed. George G. Cameron. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1966.

Claiborne, Robert. The Birth of Writing. The Emergence of Man Series. Alexandria, Virginia: Time Life Books: 1974.

Gelb, Ignace J. A Study of Writing. Revised edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Nissen, Hans J. Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East, trans. Paul Larsen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Schmandt-Besserat, Denise. Before Writing. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.

Schmandt-Besserat, Denise. How Writing Came About. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.(an abridged edition of Before Writing, vol. 1, From Counting to Cuneiform.

Schmandt-Besserat, Denise, "Record Keeping before Writing." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 2097-2107. Volume 4. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

Walker, C.B.F. Cuneiform: Reading the Past. University of California Press: Berkeley, California, 1987.


XII. Art and Art History

a. Near Eastern

Frankfort, H. The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient. Pelican History of Art. 4th ed., rev. by M. Roaf and D. Matthews. New Haven and London, 1996.


b. Mesopotamia

Barnett, Richard D. the Sculptures of Assur-nasir-apli II, 883-859 B.C., Tiglath-pileser III, 745-727 B.C. [and] Esarhaddon, 681-669 B.C., from the Central and South-west Palaces at Nimrud. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1962.

Reade, Julian. Assyrian Sculpture. London: The British Museum, 1983.

Russell, John M. From Nineveh to New York: The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.


XIII. Architecture and Archaeology

a. Near Eastern

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Eric M. Meyers, editor-in-chief. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.


b. Mesopotamia

Leacock, Helen and Richard. The Buildings of Ancient Mesopotamia. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1974.

Leick, Gwendolyn. A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture. London: Routledge, 1988.

Renfrew, Colin, and Paul Bahn. Archaeology: Theory, Methods, and Practice. Thames and Hudson, 1991.

Scientific American. "Ancient Cities Issue." Vol. 5, no. 1. New York: Scientific American, Inc., 1994.


XIV. Calendar and Chronological Issues

a. Near Eastern

Ehrich, R. W., ed. Chronologies in Old World Archaeology. Third Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Gilboa, A. and Sharon, I. "An Archaeological Contribution to the Early Iron Age Chronological Debate: Alternative Chronologies for Phoenicia and Their Effects on the Levant, Cyprus, and Greece." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 332 (Nov. 2003): 7-80.

Huber, P. J. "Astronomical Evidence for the Long against the Middle and Short Chronologies." In High, Middle or Low?, ed. P. Astroms, Part 1, 5-17. Gothenburg: Paul Astroms Forlag, 1987.


XV. Religion and Magic

a. Near Eastern

Frankfort, H. Kingship and the Gods. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Frankfort, H., Frankfort, H. A,, Wilson, J. A. and Jacobsen, T. The Intellectual Adventure of Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1946. Reprinted by Pelican Books, 1949.


b. Hittites

Hoffner, H. A. Hittite Myths, edited by G. M. Beckman. Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World 2 . Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.


c. Mesopotamia

Black, Jeremy and Anthony Green. Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1992.

Götze, Albrecht. Old Babylonian Omen Texts. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1947.

Horowitz, Wayne. Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1998.

Kramer, Samuel Noah and Maier, John, editors. Myths of Enki, the Crafty God. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Kramer, Samuel Noah. The Sacred Marriage Rite; Aspects of Faith, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Sumer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969.

Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Treasures of Darkness: a History of Mesopotamian Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.

Edwards, Carolyn McVicker. The Storytellers Goddess: Tales of the Goddess and Her Wisdom Around the World. New York: Harper Collins, 1992.

Frankfort, H. and H.A., John A. Wilson, and Thorkild Jacobsen. Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man. Penguin Books: Baltimore, Maryland, 1946.

Wolkstein, Diane, and Samuel Noah Kramer. Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983.


e. Syria, Palestine, and Canaan

L'Heureux, Conrad E. Rank among the Canaanite Gods: El, Ba`al, and the Repha'im. Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press,

Mullen, E. Theodore. The Divine Council in Canaanite and Early Hebrew Literature. Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1980.

Driver, Godfrey R. Canaanite Myths and Legends. Edinburgh: Clark, 1978.

Cross, Frank M. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973.

Handy, Lowell K. Among the Host of Heaven: the Syro-palestinian Pantheon as Bureaucracy. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1994.


XVI. Medical Science and Palaeopathology

a. Near East and Mesopotamia

Avalos, H. I. "Medicine" In The Oxford Encylopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, ed. E. M. Meyers. Volume 3 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 450-459.

Beckman, G. "From Cradle to Grave: Women's Role in Hittite Medicine and Magic." Journal of Ancient Civilizations 8 (1993): 25-39.

Biggs, R. D. "Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health in Ancient Mesopotamia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson. Volume 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995. Pp. 1911-1924

Geller, M. "Akkadian Medicine in the Babylonian Talmud. In A Traditional Quest: Essays in Honour of Louis Jacobs. 1991.

Stol, M. "Diagnosis and Therapy in Babylonian Medicine." Jaarbericht van het vooraziatisch-egyptisch Genootschap "Ex Orient Lux" 32 (1991-1992): 42-65.


XXI. Engineering, Science and Technology

a. Mesopotamia

Glassner, J.-J. "Progress, Science, and the Use of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 1815-1824. Volume 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 onward.

Hodges, H. Technology in the Ancient World. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1992.

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