The Age of Agade by Foster, Benjamin R. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of maps Acknowledgments Abbreviations, citation conventions, and symbols Introduction 1 The rise and fall of the Akkadian Empire

1. The king’s feast 2. Sargon the victorious 3. Sons of Sargon 4. Naram-Sin, campaigner 5. Naram-Sin, builder 6. Naram-Sin, administrative reformer 7. The royal family and matrimonial alliances 8. Sharkalisharri and the fall of the empire

2 The land and people of Akkad

1. Akkad, Agade, and their neighbors 2. Akkadian society 3. Law and justice 4. Patronage and administration 5. Resistance to Akkadian power

3 Akkadian centers and settlements

1. Identifying Akkadian centers and settlements 2. The Diyala region and Akkad, the Himrin Basin, Assyria 3. Sumer 4. Susiana 5. Syria 6. Was there an Akkadian Empire?

4 Works and days

1. Agricultural production 2. Labor 3. Flocks, herds, and land transport 4. Water transport 5. Fish, fowl, and swine 6. Wild and exotic animals 7. Food and drink

5 Industries and crafts

1. Akkadian industrialization 2. Ceramics 3. Metallurgy, faience, and glass 4. Stone 5. Jewelry and personal adornment 6. Wood 7. Reed 8. Leather 9. Clothing and textiles 10. Ivory 11. Oils and aromatics

6 Religion

1. The gods of the Akkadians 2. Pantheon and mythology 3. Developments in Akkadian religion 4. Temples, images, cult, prayer, and priesthood 5. Standards, sacred objects, and dedications 6. Oaths and curses 7. Festivals and the calendar 8. Magic and divination

7 Statecraft and the military

1. Chosen of the gods 2. The best man wins 3. The king’s arm 4. The king’s eyes and ears 5. Diplomacy and gift exchange 6. The king as seen by his subjects

8 Trade, business, and the economy

1. The circulation of goods 2. The profit motive 3. Merchants and their clients 4. Buying and selling 5. Accumulating a competency 6. Wages, prices, and taxes 7. Akkadian economics

9 Arts, letters, and numeracy

1. Sculpture in the round 2. Reliefs and stelae 3. Glyptic 4. Architecture 5. Poetry 6. Prose, record keeping, and letter writing 7. Translation and bilingualism 8. Music 9. Mathematics, quantification, and cartography 10. The Akkadian style

10 Akkadian human values

1. Identity 2. Childhood and education 3. Happiness and sorrow 4. Competition and coercion 5. Love and sexuality 6. Home life and family 7. Death and burial 8. The good life and respect for the past

11 The Akkadian period in retrospect

1. Honoring dead Akkadian kings 2. Dishonoring dead Akkadian kings 3. Copying Akkadian royal inscriptions 4. Omens about Akkadian kings 5. Historical chronicles 6. The Age of Agade in Sumerian and Akkadian literature 7. Akkadian artifacts 8. Responses to the Akkadian legacy

12 The Akkadian period in modern historiography

1. Discovering and using the sources 2. A time for optimism: 1861–1914 3. New sources and approaches: 1914–1947 4. A time for synthesis: 1947–1971 5. New theses: 1971–1993 6. The Age of Agade on its own terms: 1993 to the present

Appendix I: Akkadian royal inscriptions

(a) Original inscriptions (b) Ancient copies of inscriptions

Appendix II: Works attributed to Enheduanna

(a) Queen of all cosmic powers (b) Passionate Inanna (c) Inanna and Ebih

Appendix III: Two Sumerian poems about the Akkadian period

(a) The Sumerian Sargon legend (b) The curse of Agade

Sources for figures Bibliography Index