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commercial activity, and a range of exotic goods from further east. These include lapis, turquoise and a piece of stepped inlay ...

a princess of Mari, which underlines the continuing importance of the ties between the two areas (Hallo and Simpson 1998 : 74 ) ...

dynasty refer to goods sent to Magan in exchange for copper, and for rations issued to Magan shipbuilders. We also have part of ...

exchange. Semi-precious stones were usually imported unworked, but sometimes exotica like the magnificent long carnelian beads o ...

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR NORTH MESOPOTAMIA IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM BC
 Augusta McMahon INTRODUCTION W hat lies to the north of the ...

Mesopotamia as a crucial, well-defined locus of research; for example, early farming at Tell Hassuna, the cultural sequence at N ...

SURVEYS AND SETTLEMENT Survey coverage in parts of northern Mesopotamia is now more comprehensive and detailed than that in Sume ...

Northern urbanisation then saw a discontinuity towards the end of the third millennium (EJ IV–V); site size was reduced and site ...

SITE MORPHOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE Three main site types provide a cross-section of third millennium BCnorthern Mesopotamian settl ...

to the surrounding area. A similar Akkadian administrative centre at Tell Leilan, including palace and scribal school, dominated ...

(Rova 2003 ; Schwartz 1985 ). Differences between assemblages in the Upper Tigris and Upper Khabur have also been noted (Akkerma ...

et al. 2001 ; Matthews 1997 ). However, a local variant of seal style and praxis persists in strung clay bullae from Brak’s Area ...

(Grayson 1987 : 53 ). It is not until Naram-Sin’s reign that southern presence is reflected in texts from Brak and Leilan. And i ...

while sheep/goat, cattle and pigs were the main species consumed. A few ‘hold-out’ sites such as Tell Bderi (Becker 1988 ) and T ...

SUBARTU–SUMER RELATIONSHIP After intensive interaction in the Late Uruk period, the Sumer–Subartu relationship cooled in the ear ...

Further contact between Sumer and Subartu was cut off sharply in the reign of Shar-lkali-sharri (Sallaberger 2007 ), and the EJ ...

de Lillis Forrest, F., L. Milano and L. Mori. 2007. The Akkadian Occupation in the Northwest Area of the Tell Leilan Acropolis. ...

Lyonnet, B. 2000. Prospection archéologique du Haut-Khabur occidental (Syrie du N.E.). Vol. I.Beirut: Institut Français d’Archéo ...