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Temple of Inanna (Nippur) --- Sumerians --- Temples --- Religion. --- -Temple of Inanna (Nippur) --- -Architecture --- Church architecture --- Religious institutions --- Accadians (Sumerians) --- Akkadians (Sumerians) --- Civilization, Sumerian --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Ethnology --- Religion --- -Religion --- Temple of Inanna (Nippur). --- Architecture --- Religious architecture --- Inanna --- Temples assyro-babyloniens --- divinité sumérienne --- Irak --- Nippour (ville ancienne) --- divinité sumérienne

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This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts.Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time--jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.

Jewelry, Ancient --- Tombs --- Bijoux antiques --- Tombeaux --- Exhibitions --- Expositions --- Ur (Extinct city) --- Ur (Ville ancienne) --- Iraq --- Antiquities --- Archeologie ; steden --- Edelsmeedkunst --- Grafmonumenten ; graftombes --- 7.032(354) --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; Antieke culturen van de Antieke Wereld ; Babylonië --- Ur (Extinct city) - Exhibitions --- Iraq - Antiquities - Exhibitions --- Antiquités sumériennes --- Art sumérien --- Tombes --- Irak --- Our (ville ancienne) --- Catalogues d'exposition

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Kassites. --- Nippur (Extinct city). --- Kassites --- Niffer (Iraq) --- Nippur (Ancient city) --- Nuffar (Iraq) --- Iraq --- Antiquities

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What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.

Social archaeology --- Sacrifice --- Rites and ceremonies --- Archéologie sociale --- Rites et cérémonies --- Middle East --- Moyen-Orient --- Antiquities. --- Religious life and customs. --- Antiquités --- Vie religieuse --- Archaeology --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- History --- Methodology --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Antiquities --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Eastern Mediterranean Region --- South West --- Asia