The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
situated some 300 m apart from each other, known as the Eanna and Kullaba (Anu) Precincts. In later historic periods, these prec ...
By design, the bulk of exposures in the Eanna Area focused on Level IV of the sequence (Nissen 2002 ). Because exposures of deep ...
Guillermo Algaze question o f their exact function. Others, in turn, noting similarities in the proportions o f the central hall ...
assigned to Eanna V, Building E assigned to IVb, and Temple D assigned to IVa. If we disregard doorways, presume that each of th ...
respectively, become available. Without question one of the most important sources we have bearing on the nature of Uruk institu ...
The overwhelming majority of the tablets are simple accounts documenting flows of commodities. Many record the disbursement of t ...
at the command of Uruk urban elites (Englund 2009 ). Later historical parallels allow us to easily imagine the deployment captiv ...
complexity (below) – and led to establishment of a number of southern Mesopotamian outposts of varying types. On the basis of ex ...
More promising, however, is new work in the Upper Khabur basin of Syria. Excavations at Tell Hamoukar, a town-sized (ca. 12 ha) ...
What do these various types of Uruk outposts tell us about Uruk societies and about their strategies of contact with far-away pe ...
throughout every phase of the Uruk period, the expansion is perhaps best conceived as an organic process of action and counterac ...
available data suggests that the explosive growth of both population and specialization in southern Mesopotamian societies of th ...
of premodern transportational technologies made interruptions in the flow of trade between faraway areas likely, and ( 3 ) those ...
NOTES 1 An exception is a systematic surface survey of an Early Uruk site near Nippur by Charles Redman ( 1971 ) as part of his ...
11 The actual extent of the Habuba/Qannas/Aruda enclave depends on estimates of how much of an extramural occupation surrounded ...
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Nissen, H.-J. 2003. “Uruk and the Formation of the City.” In Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C.from the Mediterr ...
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CHAPTER FIVE THE SUMERIAN LANGUAGE Graham Cunningham “W hat kind of a scribe is a scribe who does not know Sumerian?” was a ...
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