The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)

try to penetrate into the internal logic of the details of the scene. Gratifying results have come from this approach that do no ...

Ur III: the official function of the presentation scene After a brief period of political and economic disorder following the co ...

Further, the king can wear either a fringed robe or the flounced robe of divinity. The earliest instance of the presentation sce ...

Collon, D. 1982. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals II. Akkadian- Post-Akkadian-Ur III ...

Mayr, R.H. and D.I. Owen, 2004. The Royal Gift Seals of the Ur III Empire. In Von Sumer nach Ebla und zurück. Festschrift für Gi ...

Wright, H., N. Miller and R. Redding 1980. Time and Process in an Uruk Rural Center. In L’archéologie de l’Iraq du début de l’ép ...

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PART IV LIFE AND DEATH
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN EVERYDAY LIFE IN SUMER
 Paul Collins D aily life in ancient Mesopotamia has often been depicted using a ver ...

brought home the complexity of behavioral and cultural choices and their impacts in ways that would be almost impossible to deci ...

activities that also shaped the world of rural village dwellers and more mobile popu- lations. Thus home life existed as part of ...

of Early Dynastic I, and began to disappear in the later part of Early Dynastic III. This appears to have been a development wit ...

of the same professional group, as Susan Pollock argues was the case for Early Dynastic I Khafajeh (Pollock 1999 : 123 – 134 ). ...

household. A single entrance means access was shared by men and women, and most of the rooms are accessible via each other and t ...

dwellings at Tell Asmar, was rebuilt a number of times through the Early Dynastic to Akkadian periods (Delougaz et al. 1967 : 15 ...

to c. 1900 BC(Woolley and Mallowan 1976 : 25 ). However, like the other furniture of Sumerian homes, beds are transient in natur ...

mud with a slightly concave wet-smoothed side were recovered. Similar objects (modern term tabag) are used for cooking and bakin ...

Over the course of the third millennium BC, the range of activities undertaken by households may have altered in response to eco ...

had to be imported over considerable distances and, being highly valued, was recycled rather than discarded. Among other materia ...