The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
THE EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD: WARRING CITY-STATES Although not much is known about the Jamdat Nasr period, it is likely that southe ...
every king individually including the number of years that they reigned. Especially the years for earlier kings are within the r ...
While the administrative texts from Fara had for a long time been thought of as documents of a private administration, new resea ...
(Mebaragesi), whom the SKL identifies as the penultimate king of the first dynasty of Kish. In the SKL of the Old Babylonian per ...
administration and some property that previously belonged to the ruler was now officially held by gods (Ningirsu, Baba and Sˇuls ...
It is possible that Lugalzagesi and Sargon, the first ruler of the dynasty of Akkad, overlapped for some time (McMahon 2006 : 4 ...
rebellion within his reign, although A. Westenholz ( 2000 : 553 ) now seems to place it rather towards the end of Nara ̄m-Sîn’s ...
71 ), are the longest literary compositions written in Sumerian from the third millennium. It is possible that Ur-Namma, the fou ...
It is with the last ruler of Ur III, Ibbi-Sîn, that the state began to collapse. A food shortage combined with sky-rocketing foo ...
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PART II SUMERIAN SOCIETY: THE MATERIAL REMAINS ...
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CHAPTER SEVEN PATTERNS OF SETTLEMENT IN SUMER AND AKKAD Jason Ur T he settlement landscape of early Mesopotamia was characte ...
development of survey and remote-sensing methods. When combined with excavation and textual analysis, these extensive methods ar ...
based on two underlying assumptions. Most importantly, past human activities left traces that can be identified via surface obse ...
to follow the lines of canal levees. The surveyors recorded plans of the visible remains, and made opportunistic artifact collec ...
Survey and landscape studies benefit from a remote perspective, and most Mesopotamian research has attempted to include aerial p ...
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