BULLETIN ON SUMERIAN AGRICULTURE
Cambridge, U.K.
1987
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BULLETIN ON SUMERIAN AGRICULTURE
Cambridge, U.K.
1987
CONTENTS 0 Sumerian Agriculture Group 1987. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publishers.
Onions, cucumbers and the date palm ....................................I-21 M.P. Charles Drawings of water melon and colocynth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 F .N. Hepper
ISSN 0267-0658 Orders may be placed through booksellers or direct to the Sumerian Agriculture Group, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA, U.K.
.....................23-56
Knoblauch und Zwiebeln nach den Texten des 3. Jt. El. Waetzoldt Garlic, onion, leek ...................................................57-80 M. St01
The Cucurbitaceae in the cuneiform texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1 - 9 2 M. St01 Some vegetables in the Assyrian sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 - 1 0 0 J .N. Postgate List of trees and shrubs of economic importance in Iraq G.H. Willcox
..............101-106
Trees and shrubs yielding gums and resins in the ancient Near East F .N. Hepper
...107-114
Notes on fruit in the cuneiform sources ..............................I1 J.N. Postgate The tree section of urg(=HAR)-ra M.A. Powell
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...........................145-151
Classical sources and the problem of the apricot M.A. Powell Fruits from ancient Iraq J.M. Renfrew
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.....................153-156
the palaeoethnobotanical evidence
.........157-161
A note on vegetables from ancient Iraq ...................................I62 J .M. Renfrew
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PREFACE
General E d i t o r s J.N. Postgate F a c u l t y of O r i e n t a l S t u d i e s U n i v e r s i t y of Cambridge S i d g w i c k Avenue Cambridge U .K.
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