The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
CHAPTER EIGHT THE ORGANISATION OF A SUMERIAN TOWN: THE PHYSICAL REMAINS OF ANCIENT SOCIAL SYSTEMS Elizabeth C. Stone T his c ...
Mesopotamian settlement organization was established by the later Early Dynastic and remained quite stable after that time. More ...
continued to occupy tripartite houses of the kind familiar from ‘Ubaid sites like Madhur (Roaf 1989 ), but now were grouped arou ...
The organisation of a Sumerian town Protoliterate Period Settlements 700 Meters Figure 8.1 Comparative plans o f three Protolite ...
Elizabeth C. Stone Legend Protoliterate and Early Dynastic I Sites Figure 8.2 Plan showing an Uruk to Early Dynastic I landscape ...
ways in Northern Iraq (Wilkinson 1993 ), likely represent the routes taken by cattle on their daily treks into the marshes. If s ...
Sources One of the richest sources of data on Sumerian settlement comes from the University of Chicago Oriental Institute’s exca ...
The organisation of a Sumerian town Figure 8.3 Plans showing the locations of Oval temples at Khafajah, Pashime, Lagash, and Uba ...
The site of Umm al-Aqqarib was excavated by the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities between 1999 and 2002 under the direction of Do ...
Residential districts Although archaeologists have generally focused on the remains of palaces and temples when they could locat ...
known might be Aleppo (Abdel-Nour, 1982 ; Wattenpaugh 2004 ; Marcus 1989 ). Satellite imagery now makes visible large expanses o ...
since the resolution of our imagery is not sufficient for the identification of doorways. At both Lagash and at Khafajah, houses ...
and others within domestic areas. Unfortunately, no cemeteries have been found at sites with late Early Dynastic private houses, ...
Eridu, there is little evidence for settlement, but at Kish both the main mound at Ingharra and especially Mound P – the locatio ...
Babylonian settlements with their earlier counterparts can determine the likelihood of whether Akkadian and Ur III settlements w ...
The organisation of a Sumerian town the organization of rooms and courts are located in the far northeastern part of the site, a ...
imagery reveals broad expanses of housing at Tell Asmar (Figure 8. 8 ), Mashkan-shapir and Dahailia (Wright 1981 : 339 , Site 34 ...
1948 , 1959 ) and visible through satellite imagery. In spite of the very small size of Haradum and Tell Harmal, both houses and ...
Although we have little data on urban organization from the later part of the third millennium, similarities between mid-third m ...
publication (Adams and Nissen 1972 : 199 ), suggests that the southwestern mound was quite a bit larger than it is today. If, li ...
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