The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
years, from Shulgi’s forty-fourth year as king to the second year in Ibbi-Suen’s reign. It is this extreme level of administrati ...
Since the Ur III tablets, like most Sumerian cuneiform documents, almost exclu- sively stem from the archives of the major gover ...
beyond the traditional family household. On the other hand, irrigation opened up new land to highly productive agricultural expl ...
In his study of the agricultural fields of southern Mesopotamia, Liverani stated that the lengths of the field areas typically e ...
of a standardised (or ideal) Ur III field measuring 100 ikuwas corrected by Kazuya Maekawa ( 1992 : 408 ), who pointed out that ...
answered to an ‘overseer’ (ugula^4 ) in charge of two ‘inspectors of plough oxen’ (and therefore normally in charge of ten ‘cult ...
litres), the esˇe 3 plot 1 barigand 4 ban 2 (≈ 100 litres), and the single garden plot measuring one ˇars (≈ 6 x 6 metres) shoul ...
recording a fixed and annual grain ration as an abstract surface measurement of unde- fined land? Steinkeller enumerated three f ...
with sustenance fields would have had various other sources of income, including fishing and hunting in the marches, animal husb ...
NOTES 1 An earlier draft of this chapter benefited greatly from the comments and suggestions of Foy Scalf, for which I am most g ...
REFERENCES Adams, R. McC. 1965. Land Behind Baghdad. A History of Settlement on the Diyala Plains. Chicago: University of Chicag ...
Maekawa, K. 1974. Agricultural Production in Ancient Sumer. Zinbun 13 : 1 – 60. —— 1984. Cereal Cultivation in the Ur III Period ...
CHAPTER FOUR THE END OF PREHISTORY AND THE URUK PERIOD Guillermo Algaze A ncient Mesopotamian civilization emerged in the al ...
substantial temporal depth of the Uruk period, which now appears to have spanned most of the fourth millennium, as Henry Wright ...
brackish lagoons, and estuaries at the juncture where the Tigris and Euphrates meet the Persian Gulf, where reeds usable as anim ...
EVIDENTIARY SOURCES Available sources of information for Uruk period Mesopotamia are uneven in quality and detail. Our best – an ...
excavations conducted in the 1940 s at the core of Tell Uqair (Lloyd and Safar 1943 ) and Eridu (Safar, Mustafa, and Lloyd 1981 ...
millennium), when a handful of sites, each about 10 ha in extent, emerged. These larger sites, he argued, provide the only indic ...
Late Uruk period, however, is the extraordinary development and demographic growth of the central portion of the alluvium survey ...
Eridu-Ur areas, as argued earlier, but seemingly also at the expense of areas well outside the immediate confines of alluvial Me ...
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