The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)

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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN THE KINGDOM OF MARI
 Jean-Claude Margueron (translated by Harriet Crawford) M ari is shown as a dot on a ...

J.-C. Margueron, trans H. Crawford Figure 27.1 Plan of the Euphrates valley around Mari showing the four canals (© Mission Arche ...

–– The Kingdom of Mari –– Figure 27.2Monuments in the centre of Mari: the Massif Rouge, the Temple of the Lions, the High Terrac ...

devastating spring floods led to the building of a dyke of mud to protect the city, with a stone core at its centre to reinforc ...

travelling downstream. Transport on land by donkey or oxen only became possible after the domestication of the donkey in the fou ...

Another very important craft was that of the potter; large numbers of kilns were found in every sector of City I associated with ...

large-scale architecture. One can easily see this as an administrative building, without being able to say if it belonged to the ...

J.-C. Margueron, trans H. Crawford Figure 27. 4 Plan of City II (© Mission Archeologique de Mari) in case of an attack. All the ...

of the site while the palace appears as a new feature instead of the metal workshops and domestic housing. Whereas previously th ...

its royal functions cannot be identified with complete certainty, for, at this period, they do not show themselves in specific a ...

The temples Seven temples are known dedicated respectively to Ishtar, Ninni-zaza, Ishtarat, Ninhursag and Shamash, or to unknown ...

The houses The houses were planned to accommodate the needs of an urban family. On the ground floor was a central covered area w ...

The Kingdom of Mari Figure 27.7 Plan of City III (© Mission Archeologique de Mari) of Zimri-Lim on them; a single stratigraphic ...

THE TIME OF THE SHAKKANAKKU The reconstruction Phase P 0 of the palace of City II, restored immediately after the destruction of ...

axis oriented west/east with, on its north face a long ramp which stretched for 30 m and was reinforced by three long walls whic ...

It is not always easy to identify the remains of the earliest palace. We cannot show the overall plan or how it functioned, but ...

certainly a response to new methods of siege. They laid down an embankment of earth and stones along the inside of the wall, usi ...

–– J.-C. Margueron, trans H. Crawford –– Figure 27.8Reconstruction and plan of the palace of Zimri-Lim (© Mission Archéologique ...

papuhum stood the statue of the Goddess with the Flowing Waters (Figure 27. 9 ). Then came the majestic Throne Room ( 12 x 25 m ...