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Ancient Babylonian Maps and Plans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Eckhard Unger
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Antiquity , Volume 9 , Issue 35 , September 1935 , pp. 311 - 322
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1935

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1 Unger, ‘Das Stadtbild von Assur’: Altaer Orient, 27, (1929), id., ‘Assur (city)’:Google Scholar Reallex. der Assyriologie 1, p.182 § 37, b, 4;Google Scholar Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur hist Inhalts. 2, no.124; (1929), id., ‘Assur (city)’:Google Scholar Unger Babylon nach der Beschreibung der Babylonier, 1931, Document no. I; id., ‘Babylon’:Google Scholar Reallex. d. Assyr., 1, pp.330 ff. id., ‘Topographie der Stadt Dilbat’:Google Scholar Archie, Orientdlni, 3, (1931), p.46f.Google Scholar

2 Summary : Unger, ‘Tabula’, in Ebert, Reallex. der Vorgeschkhte; also, van Buren, E.D. Clay Figurines of Babylonia and Assyria. Yale Oriental Series, 16, p. LXI,273–6. (16 maps, nos.1309–24); and Meissner,Google Scholar ‘Babylonische … Landkarten’: Klio 19 (1924), p.97f.Google Scholar

3 I hope soon to publish, under the title Welt und Mensch im Alten Orient a work on archaic conceptions and on the development of ideas in early eastern culture.

4 Unger, ‘Spiel’: Reallex. der Vorgeschichte; Clay tablet in Berlin (VAT 8738); id. Babylonisches Schriftum, 1921, fig. 10 ; Ground-plan in Berlin : Borchardt, Sitz. K. Preuss. Akad. 1888, pl. I; Meissner, Babylonien und Assyrien I, fig. 154.

5 Unger : Babylon, figs. 3 and 4, document no. 6, p. 254 ff.; id., ‘Rekonstruktion des Kosmos’: Atlantis, 1929, p. 701; 1932, p. 246 f.

6 E. G. Happel, tomi III, Andrer Teil grössester Denkwürdigkeiten der Welt. Hamburg, Thomas von Wiering, 1685. The reconstruction has been based on this.

7 In Philadelphia, ; Langdon, Museum f., 7 (1916), p.263 ff.Google Scholar

8 Lagash, : Thureau-Dangin, Recueil de Textes Cunéif., no.154 Google Scholar Sippar, : Cun. Texts, 22, 49 ff. (B.M. no. 50644); Meissner, op. cit. 11, p. 378.Google Scholar

9 Nippur: King, Sumer and Akkad, p. 87; Van Buren, op. cit. fig. 316. Babylon: Unger, Babylon, Document no. 4 (‘new city’), no. 5 (citadel), p. 253.

10 Maps of Assur : Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur no. 25 (Berlin, VAT 9423) King, Sippar-Jahrurum: Letters of Hammurabi, pl. 242, no. 107, and vol.3. p.255;Google Scholar Langdon, Amer. J. Sem. Lung. 39, (1922), p.206; Enlil Temple tablet in London: B.M. no. 73319:Google Scholar Cun. Texts, 22, 49.Google Scholar

11 Thureau-Dangin, op. Lit. nos. 149-60, etc.; Cun. Texts, I, x (passim). Boundary Stones : Steinmetzer, Kudurru, nos. 13, 15, 26, 79; King, Babylonian Boundary-stones, nos. 13, 15, 26.

12 Sarzec and Heuzey, Découvmtes en Chaldée,, pl. 15, I (statue B).

13 Cun. Texts, 22, 50, p.13.Google Scholar

14 VAT 68: Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler, VI , no. 264.

15 Thureau-Dangin, op. cit. no. 147.

16 Unger, ‘Feldlager’, in Reallex. dei VorgeschiChte 3, p.202 f., pls. 42–43.Google Scholar

17 Unger, in Forschungen und Fortschritte 4, (1928) p.343 f., V, (I929), p. 270 f. Babylon, p. 122–135; see also footnote 3 above, where this matter is further discussed.Google Scholar

18 Unger, Babylon, fig. 27, pl. 18.

19 Unger, in Atlantis, 1932, p. 244 f.; id., Bubylon, p. 382; Borsippa: id., ‘Barsippa’, Reallex. der Assyr. I, p. 418, § 57.