The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)

Sumerian language written by and for people who learned it at school (Veldhuis 2004 : 67 ). In the eighteenth century BC, Sumeri ...

if the allegorical reading is accepted, their mythological content is more of a narrative strategy than exemplary of mythopoeic ...

to send in her stead because they obviously have been mourning her death. When, however, she meets her lover, Dumuzi, he shows n ...

enumeration of stones can be compared to the enumeration of culture traits in Inanna and Enki, in Enki and the World Order(discu ...

help of his courier he approaches her when she is bathing and rapes her, leaving her pregnant with Sin, the moon-god. Banished f ...

at considerable length. When it is done, he embarks on a journey to Nippur, where he is feted upon his arrival. Enki then gives ...

story of Atrahasis(B. Foster 2005 : 227 – 280 ). In this, the newly created human race is so productive that the gods send a gre ...

Cooper, J. ( 2001 ) Literature and History: The Historical and Political Referents of Sumerian Literary Texts. In T. Abusch et a ...

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PART V THE NEIGHBOURS
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE TRADE IN THE SUMERIAN WORLD
 Harriet Crawford T he importance of trade as a ‘prime mover’ in the develop ...

attractive or superior product by local craftsmen is also well attested in pottery manu- facture. These factors make the attribu ...

probably in use at any one time and that their relative importance changed as society developed and goods that had been luxuries ...

for knowledge or resources, some the emigration of people from the south, and some emulation by local people of a desirable comm ...

85 – 87 ). It seems that whatever the motive for the Ubaid travellers had been, the thrust of the contacts turned north and sout ...

an accurate comparison. There is not a total famine, as lead bowls appear in some of the Jemdat Nasr or ED 1 graves at Ur, and a ...

THE EUPHRATES ROUTE The ‘Uruk’ route up the Euphrates is reopened in ED I/II and the newly founded city of Mari has provided man ...

sealings at Jiroft, as well as the single City seal impression mentioned above, suggest that merchants from the south may have j ...

THE AGADE PERIOD: THE EUPHRATES ROUTE Looking now to the traditional route northwards up the Euphrates, Sargon claimed to have w ...