The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
Rita P. Wrightis a Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She conducts field research in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakist ...
CHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR FOURTH MILLENNIUM SOUTHERN MESOPOTAMIA xxi Table 0.1 Date BC Southern Mesopotamia Uruk (Eanna) ‘ ...
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HISTORICAL PHASES AND KINGS OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM BC xxiii Table 0.2 Dates BC(all dates Historical phase including kings ( ...
–– Historical phases of Kings –– xxiv Table 0.2(continued) Meskiagnun UruKAgina/ ‘king of Ur’ IriKAgina Elili‘king of Ur’ 2350 – ...
INTRODUCTION Harriet Crawford T he heartland of the Sumerian world lay in what is today southern Iraq, an area of parched bu ...
gravity feed, weirs, dams and lifting devices to bring fertility to the area and to hold back the floods (see Wilkinson this vol ...
The ruler was seen as perhaps the most important conduit through which the gods made their wishes known and he then had to imple ...
Amorites rulers in the early second millennium to indicate the arrival of a large group of incomers who might be the Sumerians. ...
of use to a wide range of readers interested in ancient Mesopotamia and will also provide comparative data to experts in other c ...
being intensified in the surrounding areas such as Syria to the north and west (Cooper, McMahon and Pinnock) and Iran (Lamberg-K ...
BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, R.McC. 2008. An interdisciplinary overview of a Mesopotamian city and its hinterlands. Cuneiform Digital Lib ...
EblaMari Asmar Giza Luxor Kish Susa Uruk Ur Sarazm Namazga Altin Hissar Anshan Shahr-iSokhta Shortughai Yahya Mundigak Jiroft Ga ...
Poliochni Tro y Athens Istanbul Ankara Alaca Höyük Diyarbakir Acemhöyük Kültepe Ebla Tell Brak Mosul Ashur Mari Deir ez-Zor Beir ...
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CHAPTER ONE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Jennifer R. Pournelle O f all the natural factors that impact (or are impacted by) human acti ...
While the entireMesopotamian zone tips slightly from the northwest (at Samarra) to the southeast (at Basrah), its plane is also ...
–– Physical geography –– Figure 1.1(a) The Mesopotamian Zone geosyncline (white hachure) forms where the Arabian plate is forced ...
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