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Quiz #3

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-rebuilt the Esagila
-System of loyalty oaths, Esarhaddon's "vassal treaties"

Political Theology

-Sargon II 8th campaign against Uratc '-
-In war, the king is following a divine commandment instead of being blood thirsty, held less accountable

The ziggurat of Marduk

the Etemenanki restored by Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal

Discourse of terror and mercy

Substitute King Ritual

A lunar eclipse was an omen of the king's demise, example of Erra-imitti and Enlil-bani

Median king, Cyaxares and Nabopolassor

Established a treaty to fight Assyrians

Nebuchadzzar II

Nabopolassor's son, seized Jerusalem

Had an adult son when crowned king, lived in Teima (Arabia), very far from Babylon, son took dad's place when absent, special relation between Nabonidus and moon god

conquered Babylon

No state administrative, economic, or legal documents from Babylon itself
Come from Uruk and Sippar
Documents from Babylon pertain to family archives
Egibi family: use wealth to lend money to people, rented land out
Uruk and Sippar documents come from temple archives, reflect temple's daily business
No documents on the empirical rule of Babylon over in provinces (unlike Assyrian empire)

New Year Festival

Importance of the New Year festival (akitu): the king led a central role, new year is beginning of Spring

Ashipu (Ašipu)

Examiner, diviner, (literal meaning see-er)

series of medical diagnostics, conversation of epilepsy

list of compound signs

most complicated signs, provided scripts with unpredictable readings

Single sign list, not compound
ex: buru: any kind of hole, only one word in Summerian

Mesopotamian Mathematics

Sexagesimal Place-Value- System, table of logarithms, practical problems not theorems

Sir James George Frazer

myths are "mistaken explanations of phenomena"

A myth is the spoken counterpart of a ritual, myths explanation of a ritual

Babylonian story of Creation of Alatu festival

Name of ziggurat of Marduk in Babylon

Babylonian king responsible for the fall and destruction of Assyria by 612

King of Umma and Uruk whom Sargon defeated at the beginning of the Sargonic period

King of Uruk who defeated the Gutians in the transition from the Sargonic to the Ur III periods

Sargonic king who left us a large obelisk recording the royal purchases of several parcels of land at four different cities

Only Mesopotamian law collection or legal "code" named after a city instead of a ruler

During the first decade of his reign, Hammurabi

was an ally of Shamshi-Adad and Rim-Sin

Old Babylonian king, successor of Hammurabi, against whom several southern cities revolted

Old Babylonian king who issued a famous edict releasing people from their debts

Egyptian site that was the capital during Dynasty XVIII and which has yielded an important archive of international diplomatic correspondence in Akkadian

City near modern Kirkuk that yielded a large number of documents concerning adoptions dating to the second half of the second millenium

Mitannian king who wrote a famous letter in Hurrian to the Egyptian king Amenophis III

Site in which a bilingual inscription was found, in which the local ruler is called "governor" in the Assyrian version but "king" in the Aramaic one

King of Alalah who rebelled against Mitanni and left us a statue with an autobiographical inscription

Elamite king who conquered Babylon in the 12th century and took the stela with Hammurabi's "Code" and the Stela of Naram-Sin as plunder

Shutruk-Nahhunte I

Site in Iran in which the Elamite king Untash-Napurisha built the only ziggurat found outside Mesopotamia

Assyrian king whose reign mean an essential shift in the expansionistic policy of Assyria and moved towards a model of empire

Tiglath- Pileser III

Assyrian king whose Black Obelisk, found at Kalhu, includes a reference to a tribute from the Israelite king Jehu

Shalmaneser III

Son of Esarhaddon appointed as king of Babylonia, who rose against Assyria and was eventually crushed by his brother Assurbanipal

Shamash-shum-ukin

The 8th campaign of the Neo-Assyrian king Sargon II is a famous example of the genre of "letters to the god." Against which kingdom did Sargon lead this campaign

The two settlements that merged and constituted the city of Uruk

Kullaba and Eanna

Important city in northern Syria that was culturally connected with Southern Mesopotamia during the Early Dynastic III

Large city in southwestern Iran that closely resembles the material culture of the 4th and early 3rd millennium Uruk

Queen of the First Dynasty of Ur whose Semitic name is attested in a cylinder seal found at the Royal Cemetary of Ur

Daughter of Sargon, the king of Akkad, who appointed high priestess of Nanna at Ur

Sumerian term normally used to mean "king" when referring to historical kings in documents, royal inscriptions

In Sumerian literacy compositions, Gilgamesh and other legendary rulers of Uruk are called

the en of Kullaba

Stela immortalizing the victory of the Early Dynastic ruler Eannatum, king of Lagash, over the army of Umma

the stela of the Vultures

Stela immortalizing the victory of a Sargonic king over the Lullabi

the stela of Naram-Sin

Kind of brick that some scholars have associated with presence of Sumerian speakers in Southern Mesopotamia

Planoconvex brick

King of the Third Dynasty of Ur during whose reign the first law "code" was written down

Ur III king during whose reign a large bureaucratic reform was implemented, which pertained to spelling conventions, the numerical system, etc.

Last king of the Third Dynasty of Ur

General of the last Ur III king who moved north and started his own dynasty at Isin

Last king of Mari, defeated by Hammurabi

Old Babylonian king, successor of Hammurabi, against whom several southern cities revolted

Old Babylonian king who issued a famous edict people from their debts

Southernmost region of Mesopotamia

River eastern Mesopotamia

River in western Mesopotamia

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