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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41955-0 — Between Greece and Babylonia Kathryn Stevens Index More Information INDEX Abnu Šikinšu, 273–4 Antimenidas, brother of Alcaeus, 16 Adapa, 98n.12, 99 Antioch on the Orontes, 28, 244, 246 Aḫ’ûtu family, Uruk, 226–7, 320, 324–6 in Akkadian texts, 256n.6, 259–60, 290, Akesines river, 286–7, 301, 309 293, 297, 306 akītu festival, 224, 321 library at, 164 Akkadian language, 4 Antiochus Cylinder, from Borsippa, 26, disappearance of, 370–1 198, 220–3, 251, 258 loan-words into Greek, 17 Antiochus I of Commagene, 72 transcriptions in Greek alphabet, 56–7, Antiochus I Soter 95, 117–19, 268. See also and Berossus, 114–17, 270 Graeco-Babyloniaca land grants in Babylonia, 358 usage in Hellenistic Babylonia, 25 patronage of Babylonian culture, 198, Alexander Balas, 206, 208, 244 220–4, 361–2 Alexander of Aetolia, 205 patronage of Greek intellectual culture, Alexander Polyhistor, 96, 106, 163 206–7, 214, 244, 247 Alexander the Great, 233, 283, 287 Antiochus II Theos, 116, 155, 201, 325, interactions with Chaldaeans, 86, 358 229–31 Antiochus III Megas, 227, 366 Alexandria, 27 patronage of Babylonian culture, 224–5 astrology at, 86 patronage of Greek intellectual culture, astronomy at, 86, 145 206, 242, 244, 246 Library and Museum. See Library of Antiochus VIII Epiphanes, 216 Alexandria; Museum of Alexandria Antiochus IX Eusebes Cyzicenus, 212 Almanacs, 49, 370, 378 antiscion, 72 ammatu. See cubit Anu (god), 321, 323, 326, 352, 354, Amurru, 264 378 Anaxandridas of Delphi, 335–6, 342 elevation in Uruk pantheon,
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