millennium homes, 351 – 2 ; in Uruk and Jemdet
Nasr/Proto-Elamite periods, 324 – 9 ; see also
seals; stamp sealsDada, seal of, 336
Dahl, J., 63 , 564
Dakanoff, I.M., 502
Damerow, P., 565
damgar(merchant), 449
David, N., 345
death and burial, 262 , 355 – 6 , 419 – 34 ; graves,
424 – 6 ; mourning and grief, 422 – 4 ;
Netherworld, burial and journey of the dead
into, 426 – 9 ; preparation of the corpse, 420 – 2 ;
rituals, 429 – 30 ; sources, 419 – 20
Death of Ur-Namma, 268 , 420 , 428
Debate Between Hoe and Plow, 239
decimal system, 305
Deimel, A.P., 430
deities: dress of the gods, 385 – 6 , 388 , 389 , 392 ;
god-likeness of royals, 219 – 20 ; names, 98 – 9
Delougaz, P., 349
deltaic plain, 36 , 58 , 64 ; see alsoMesopotamian
Delta
de Maaijer, R., 62
democracy, primitive, 285 – 7
Descent of Inanna, The(mythological work), 437 – 8
Dilmun region, 602 , 608 , 625 ; and Magan, 612 ;
Sumerians and the Gulf, 586 , 587 , 589 , 591 ;
trade, 450 – 1 , 454
directives (function words), 103
display inscriptions, 99 – 100
ditches, irrigation, 42 , 46
Dittmann, R., 80
divine–devotee unions, 227
Diyala region, 40 , 58 , 64 , 136 , 151 , 162 ; everyday
life, 348 , 352 ; Khafajah city seeKhafajah city,
Diyala region; residential districts, 165 , 167 ,
174 n, 175 n, 185 – 6 , 187
domain land, 65 n
drains, 47
drinking, communal, 215 , 216
“drinking place,” rituals for the dead, 429
DUB.SANGA, 294
duh-shi-a(stone), 571
Dumuzi’s Dream(mythological work), 438
dyeing, 405
Eanatum Stela, 205 – 6
Eanna Precinct, Uruk, 29 n, 76 , 88 , 180 – 1 ;
builders, 182 – 3 , 184 ; elites of Uruk as builders,
184 ; excavations, 77 , 78 – 9 ; functions, 182 ,
183 – 4 ; pedestal vases, 235 – 6 ; public
architecture, 182 – 3 ; spatial design, 184 ; Square
building, 181 , 183 ; structures, 77 – 8 ; users,
identity of, 184 ; see alsoUruk (ancient city of
Sumer)
Eannatum, 228 , 385
Early Bronze Age (c. 3200 – 2000 BC), 480 , 492 ,
498 , 499 , 500 , 508 , 586 ; EB I-II periods, 481 – 3 ;
EB III-IV periods, 483 – 8
Early Dynastic period, 21 , 37 , 80 , 85 , 118 , 141 , 164 ;
administrative texts, 367 ; clergy, 251 , 267 ;
cultural developments, Western Syria and
Middle Euphrates Valley, 481 – 2 ; death and
burial, 419 , 420 , 423 , 425 ; and Early Bronze
Age, 481 ; Early Dynastic I-II (c. 2900 – 2600
(BC), 116 , 157 , 160 , 161 , 330 – 1 , 348 , 352 , 354 ,
355 , 453 , 464 ; Early Dynastic IIIa (c. 2600 – 2500
BC), 26 , 116 , 117 , 118 , 119 , 290 , 331 , 354 , 453 ,
590 – 3 ; Early Dynastic IIIb (c. 2500 – 2350 BC),
116 , 117 , 118 , 119 , 120 , 331 , 354 , 453 , 590 – 3 ;
Egypt, 621 – 2 ; everyday life, 348 , 352 , 354 , 355 ;
fabrics, uses, 398 – 9 ; fashion in, 378 , 379 – 86 ;
later settlement, 161 – 8 ; late settlement, 168 – 9 ;
legal texts, 278 ; north Mesopotamia, third
millennium, 464 , 467 ; people and state, 281 ;
ports and harbors, 23 – 7 ; royalty, images of,
203 , 205 , 207 , 210 – 11 , 220 , 221 ; Sacred
Marriage, 228 ; scribes, 293 , 297 – 303 ; seals in,
329 – 33 ; settlement trends, 150 , 161 – 9 ; third
millennium homes, 347 – 8 ; trade in, 452 , 453 – 4 ;
trading relations (ED III period), 590 – 2 ; urban
centers, 166 , 167 – 8 ; warring city-states, 116 – 20 ;
women in, 363 , 364 , 365 – 8
Early Transcaucasian Ware, 480
Early Uruk period (c. 4000 – 3800 BC), 70 , 73
East Gharraf basin, 21
eating and drinking, 352 – 3
EB I-II settlements, 482
Ebla, Syria, 100 , 309 , 487 , 538 – 55 ; Administrative
Quarter, Ebla Palace G, 544 , 547 , 549 ; art and
handicraft production, 549 – 50 , 551 ; Central
Complex, Acropolis Palace, 544 – 5 ; cult
architecture, 540 – 3 ; early Syrian town, remains,
547 – 8 ; Ebla Palace G archives, 455 , 500 , 502 – 4 ,
544 , 545 , 548 , 552 ; palace architecture, 544 – 7 ;
scribes, 299 – 300 ; urban pattern, 539 – 40
ecclesiastic hierarchy, Sumerian, 247 – 67
Edens, C., 614
ED I Seal Impression Strata, Ur, 26
e-dub-lal-mah(gate), 194–– Index ––