Tom Boiy: Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon. (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 136), Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters 2004, XX + 385 S., 11 pl., ISBN 90-429-1449-1, EUR 72.00. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHRONOLOGICAL CORRIGENDA CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION SOURCES SOURCES FROM BABYLON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOURCES EPIGRAPHICAL SOURCES
Cuneiform tablets Legal and administrative tablets Legal tablets Administrative tablets Letters Other documents Literary texts Historiographical and historical literature Topographical literature Literature Religious literature Rituals Cult songs Incantations Feast calendars Omina Sciences Astrology Astronomy Mathematics Medicine Lexical lists and school texts Unidentified literary texts Greek inscriptions and ostraca Graeco-Babyloniaca Lexical lists Other literary texts Colophons Aramaic incantation bowls NUMISMATIC SOURCES
Coins made in Babylon Coins found in Babylon SOURCES ON BABYLON LITERARY SOURCES
Descriptions of the city Historical information Other information on Babylon from classical literature Talmud Arab geographers EPIGRAPHICAL SOURCES
Cuneiform sources Greek inscriptions and papyri Inscriptions from Palmyra TOPOGRAPHY BABYLON DURING THE ΝΕΟ-BABYLONIAN PERIOD BABYLON'S WALL ROADS AND CANALS IN BABYLON QUARTERS IN BABYLON TEMPLES IN BABYLON PALACES IN BABYLON ΝΕΟ-BABYLONIAN BABYLON ACCORDING TO BEROSSUS THE CITY OF BABYLON DURING THE ACHAEMENID PERIOD CHANGES DURING THE ACHAEMENID PERIOD DESCRIPTIONS OF BABYLON BY CLASSICAL AUTHORS
Herodotus I 178-186 Ctesias FGrHist 688 F1 ACHAEMENID BABYLON BABYLON DURING THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD HELLENISTIC BABYLON ON THE BASIS OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE
City descriptions Other information based on classical literature The image of Babylon in classical literature HELLENISTIC BABYLON ON THE BASIS OF TOPOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FROM CUNEIFORM TABLETS
The Euphrates channel in Hellenistic Babylon Babylon's wall City quarters in Hellenistic Babylon Temples in Hellenistic Babylon Other buildings in Hellenistic Babylon Suburbs in Hellenistic Babylon
POLITICAL HISTORY A "CITY" IN MESOPOTAMIAN HISTORY BABYLON DURING THE ACHAEMENID PERIOD FROM CYRUS THE GREAT UNTIL XERXES (539 - 465 BC) BABYLON DURING THE LATE ACHAEMENID PERIOD BABYLON DURING THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD BABYLON AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT (331 - 323 BC)
Alexander's first visit to Babylon (331 BC) Babylon during Alexander's campaign to the East Alexander's second visit to Babylon (323 BC) BABYLON DURING THE WARS OF THE SUCCESSORS (323 - 305 BC) The division of Alexander's empire at Babylon (323 BC)
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The division of Triparadisus (320 BC) Babylon during the reign of Antigonus (315 - 311 BC) Seleucus' return to Babylon (311 BC) BABYLON DURING THE SELEUCID DYNASTY (305 - 141 BC) Babylon in the third century BC: from world centre to provincial town Seleucus I Antiochus I Antiochus II Seleucus II Seleucus III Antiochus III Babylon in the second century BC Seleucus IV Antiochus IV Antiochus V and Demetrius I The last years of Seleucid rule in Babylonia BABYLON DURING ARSACID RULE (141-61 BC) First part of Parthian rule: ten years of political instability Short revival of the Seleucid dynasty in Babylonia Hyspaosines of Characene in Babylon Second Parthian rule Political instability at the beginning of the new Parthian rule Babylon during the reign of Mithradates Π (124 - 88 BC) Babylon during the Parthian "Dark Age" (88 - 61 BC) Babylon 's end INSTITUTIONS IN HELLENISTIC BABYLON BABYLON'S CIVIL ORGANISATION CENTRAL ORGANISATION AFTER THE ACHAEMENID PERIOD THE ŠATAMMU AND KINIŠTU OF ESAGIL
The šatammu of Esagil The kiništu of Esagil THE PĀHĀT BĀBILI AND πολΐται, (WHO ARE IN BABYLON) The pāhāt Bābili The πολΐται (who are in Babylon) The institution " pāhāt Bābili and πολΐται (who are in Babylon)" OTHER OFFICIALS FROM HELLENISTIC BABYLON BABYLON AS A PART OF THE SELEUCID AND PARTHIAN EMPIRE MILITARY PRESENCE IN HELLENISTIC BABYLON THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN HELLENISTIC BABYLON APPENDIX: THE TEMPLE STATE JERUSALEM DURING THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD
SOCIO-ECONOMIC SITUATION DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY OF BABYLON SOURCES POPULATION SIZE FAMILY STRUCTURE
HELLENISTIC BABYLON AND GREEK CULTURE HELLENISTIC BABYLON AND BABYLONIAN CULTURE OTHER CULTURES IN HELLENISTIC BABYLON CULTURE IN HELLENISTIC BABYLON BABYLONIAN SCIENCE: IMPORTANCE OF ASTRONOMY
BABYLON'S LEGACY BABYLON'S RELIGIOUS LEGACY: THE CULT OF BEL BABYLON'S ASTRONOMICAL LEGACY BABYLONIAN INFLUENCE ON GREEK ASTRONOMY ACCORDING TO THE CLASSICAL TRADITION BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMY IN EGYPTIAN PAPYRI BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMY SPREADS TO THE FAR EAST BABYLON AS SYMBOL
