The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)

21 Death and burial 419

Helga Vogel

22 Sumerian mythology 435
Benjamin R. Foster

PART V: THE NEIGHBOURS 445

23 Trade in the Sumerian World 447
Harriet Crawford

24 North Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC 462
Augusta McMahon

25 Cultural developments in western Syria and the middle Euphrates

Valley during the third millennium BC 478

Lisa Cooper

26 Sumer, Akkad, Ebla and Anatolia 498

Christoph Bachhuber

27 The Kingdom of Mari 517

Jean-Claude Margueron (translated by Harriet Crawford)

28 Ebla 538

Frances Pinnock

PART VI: THE ENDS OF THE SUMERIAN WORLD 557

29 Iran and its neighbors 559

C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky

30 The Sumerians and the Gulf 579

Robert Carter

31 Mesopotamia, Meluhha, and those in between 600

Christopher P. Thornton

32 Egypt and Mesopotamia 620

Alice Stevenson

POSTSCRIPT 637

The Mesopotamian marshlands: a personal recollection 639

Azzam Alwash

Index 643

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