Babylonian
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'the babylonian world' presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state babylonia and its 'holy city', babylon this book explores all key aspects of the development of this ancient culture, including the ecology of the region and its famously productive agriculture, its political and economic standing, its religious practices, and the achievements of its intelligentsiacomprehensive and accessible, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying the periodhistoricized by the new testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and complex civilization, responsible for the invention of the dictionary and laying the foundations of modern sciencethe book is free of notes and inscriptions, and remains a clean, bright and good condition copy, which shows no signs of having been readsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop cowley road softcover published by routledge,  (first published )paperback in excellent condition except for some water-ruffling to bottom of pages
19 €
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Ancient goddess incense burner, very old looking babylonian goddess, with incense burner at feet, lovely itemcomes in presentation box, tissue wrapped
7 €
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This large old babylonian plaque, found in southern iraq, was made between and bcit is made of baked straw-tempered clay, modelled in high relief, and probably stood in a shrinethis book explores the symbolism and history behind this beautiful relief
6 €
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Most of the book is a retelling of the document, in much the same way as a modern translator might retell the contents of a babylonian tablet or egyptian papyrus scrollcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe title means, approximately, 'the first five books (pentateuch) of the creation (cosmogony)'our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe story and artwork within 'pentateuch' concerns the discovery of an abandoned spacecraft in orbit around jupiter, and the project to decipher the ideograms in the pentateuch 'document' discovered withinparticularly remarkable is the combinatorial ideographic script created by woodroffe and used throughout the artworkare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikipatrick woodroffe / dave greenslade ?– the pentateuch of the cosmogony label:emi ?– emsp 332 format:2 × vinyl, lp, album, book country:uk released: genre:electronic, rock style:new age, prog rock media condition: ex sleeve condition: ex a hardback book and double vinyl album released in , conceived, written and illustrated by patrick woodroffe, with music written and performed by dave greenslade
(England)
23 €
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Fascinating work on the code of hammurabi, a babylonian legal text dated from about bc, the most complete of the codes of law from ancient mesopotamia to datecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storedominique mirande - le code de hammourabi et ses origines - binding in good condition, the work is in its original soft cover, covers and spine in good condition, some inconsequential dirt and cuts, simple binding in fair condition - interior in good condition, some scattered foxing, uncut book - delivery service provided by chronopost within a few days - read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
29 €
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His essays on the babylonian findings have their tribute in the scientific worlddj has some minor chipsthere his heart remained for most of the rest of his lifethough his work took him to the caves of altamira and the pyrenees with the abbe breuil, to america where he worked for years in the field museum and saw the construction of its marvellous hall of primitive man, into planning for the developmental exhibit at the chicago world's fair, and into wartime studies for the uhenry field (december – january ) was an american anthropologist and archaeologistoxfam shop darlington hardbackillustrated with 28 b/w photographsfield went eagerly as a young student on his first trip to the excavation grounds at kishpublished by peter daviesgovernment- it was at kish that he did his main body of worksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreffep has a small section (4cm x 1cm) removed to take out surname of inscriptionthe inscription includes " with greeting henry field" and is dated but cannot verify its authenticitycontents are clean and binding is tighthis autobiography is a spirited account of the adventure of science itselfborn in chicago he spent his childhood in england and was educated at eton and oxfordgreen cloth boards protected by unclipped maroon pictorial dust jacketfascinated by the shaded past of the cultural hub of our civilization there, field dug, dusted and studied to piece together his track of manred top page endsboards clean with very slight fading around the titles on the spine
19 €
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In particular, the last chapter gives a concise account of fermat's last theorem, from its origin in the ancient babylonian and greek study of pythagorean triples to its recent proof by andrew wilessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreexercises, together with their solutions are integrated into the text, and the first few chapters assume only basic school algebraoxfam bookshop preston an undergraduate-level introduction to number theory, with the emphasis on fully explained proofs and examplesthe final part, suitable for third-year students, uses ideas from algebra, analysis, calculus and geometry to study dirichlet series and sums of squareselementary ideas about groups and rings are then used to study groups of units, quadratic residues and arithmetic functions with applications to enumeration and cryptography
1399 €
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The book of job, which deals with deep-seated conflict between the integrity of god and the integrity of man and belongs to a group of writings known as wisdom literature, surpasses any of its known babylonian or egyptian forerunners in the beauty of its poetic discourses and in its insightinside of dust jacket at front fold is clippedoxfam shop kendal hardback in excellent conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
24 €