Near East Section
Vol. X / No. 3-4
By: Leon Legrain
India and Egypt: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum
Semitic supremacy over lower and upper Mesopotamia was thus achieved at the beginning of the second millennium by the kings […]
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Vol. X / No. 3-4
By: Leon Legrain
Elam. Isin-Larsa: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum
Elam, across the Persian Gulf on the borderland of Persia, has always been in close relation with the Sumerian south. […]
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Vol. X / No. 3-4
By: Leon Legrain
Ashur and Mari: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum
The influence of the Sumerian culture extended far outside southern Mesopotamia, as revealed by the excavations at Ashur, the first […]
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Vol. X / No. 3-4
By: Leon Legrain
Khafaje and Tell Asmar: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum
East of Baghdad, across the Tigris, in the plains watered by the Diala, where the highways of Elam, Persia and […]
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Vol. X / No. 3-4
By: Leon Legrain
Fâra: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum
The hero of the Flood, Uta-napishtum, the Sumerian Noah, lived at Shuruppak (Fâra), a city on the old Euphrates, half […]
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Vol. X / No. 3-4
By: Leon Legrain
Kish (Uhaimir): The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum
Kish, eight miles east of Babylon, is, according to the king’s lists compiled about 1800 B.C., the site of the […]
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Vol. X / No. 3-4
By: Leon Legrain
The Jemdet-Nasr Period: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum
The brilliant decoration of Tell ‘Uqair shows a taste for colours was not foreign to the Uruk period, even when […]
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Vol. X / No. 3-4
By: Leon Legrain
Tell ‘Uqair “Painted Temple”: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum
A still more perfectly preserved example of an early Sumerian temple has been recently (1940) unearthed at Tell ‘Uqair, forty […]
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Vol. X / No. 3-4
By: Leon Legrain
The Uruk Period: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum
Such is the picture of the first establishment of the Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia as revealed by the German excavations […]
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Vol. X / No. 3-4
By: Leon Legrain
The Sumerians: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum
The political independence of the Sumerians came to an end when Hammurabi united the north and the south, Akkad and […]
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