Abstract: This volume is Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume 1: General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division: August 1916). The handbook contains a variety of information about the region of Mesopotamia, including its geography, economy, population, and history. The prefatory note at the start of the volume specifies that it ‘contains matter of a general nature’, while the following three volumes in the series contain ‘detailed description of the river and land routes’. The handbook comprises information about Mesopotamia under the following chapter headings:‘Boundaries and Physical Features’‘Climate’‘Minerals’‘Flora and Fauna’‘Hygiene’‘History’‘Inhabitants’‘Religions’‘Administration’‘Irrigation of Irak’‘Agriculture’‘Commerce and Industry’‘Currency, Weights and Measures’‘Communication and Transport’‘Transliteration of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Names’‘Vocabularies’.The volume also contains three maps: ‘Administrative Divisions and Chief Towns’ (f 363), ‘Racial Divisions’ (f 364), and ‘Area Available For Irrigation’ (f 365). The volume contains a table of contents on folio 9r, a list of maps on folio 9v, and an index on folios 355-361.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 367; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
"Une interprétation alternative de la "pesée du coeur" du livre des morts." fig. 8. Gabolde, Marc. Égypte Afrique et Orient 43, pp. 11 - 22. 2006.Published in "Une interprétation alternative de la "pesée du coeur" du livre des morts." fig. 8. Gabolde, Marc. Égypte Afrique et Orient 43, pp. 11 - 22. 2006.Article: Demons (Benevolent and Malevolent)PaintedWritten with a Reed Pen / Reed with Split NibhorizontalFigure 4. Ammut, “the devourer of the dead”, from Spell 125 of the Book of the Dead.
HorizontalReliefArticle: Cosmogony (Late To Ptolemaic And Roman Periods)Figure 1. Amun and the Ogdoad over entrance to bark shrine, small temple of Amun, Medinet Habu.
Digitization for the Arab Image Foundation Photo Negatives collection was sponsored by an Emergency Grant from the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
Naville, Édouard 1886 Das aegyptische Todtenbuch der XVIII. bis XX. Dynastie. 2 vols. Berlin: Asher & Co.Article: Funerary Rituals (Pharaonic Period)PaintedhorizontalFigure 5. Anubis Laying Hands on Anthropoid Coffin. Vignette to Book of the Dead Spell 151a, Papyrus of Nebseni, New Kingdom.