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Babylon

Bibliography:

Van de Mieroop, Marc; 2003. "Reading Babylon" AJA 107.2: 257-275.

George, Andrew R.; 1993. “Babylon revisited: archaeology and philology in harness,” Antiquity 67: 734-46.

Kuhrt, Amélie; 2001. “The palace(s) of Babylon,” in The royal palace institution in the First Millennium b.c.: regional development and cultural interchange between East and West. Inge Nielsen (ed.); Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens: Athens, 77-94.

George, Andrew R.; 1997. “ ‘Bonds of the lands’: Babylon, the cosmic capital,” in Die orientalische Stadt: Kontinuität, Wandel, Bruch. G. Wilhelm (ed.), SDV Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, Saarbrücken: 125-145.

Black, Jeremy A.; 1981. “The new year ceremonies in ancient Babylon: ‘taking Bel by the hand’ and a cultic picnic,” Religion 11: 39-59.

Sommer, Benjamin D.; 2000. “The Babylonian akitu festival: Rectifying the king or renewing the cosmos?” The Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 27: 81-95.

Barjamovic, Gojko; 2004. "Civic institutions and self-government in Southern Mesopotamia in the mid-first millennium BC, " in Assyria and beyond: studies presented to Morgens Trolle Larsen. J.G. Dercksen (ed.). Leiden: Nederlands Instituut Voor Het Nabije Oosten, 47-98.

Westenholz, Joan Goodnick; 1998. “The theological foundation of the city, the capital city and Babylon,” in Capital cities: Urban planning and spiritual dimensions. J. G. Westenholz (ed.), Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem: 43-54.

Babylon city plan, with neighborhood names from topographical texts.

South Palace of the Babylonian kings. Plan by Koldewey.

North palace. Poorly known archaeologically, but this is where all the Babylonian "antiquities" turned out, the so-called "museum".

Hanging Gardens of Babylon? (Koldewey's proposal as part of the South Palace)