The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)

2. 4 b Diagrammatic layout showing the possible distribution of lateral
   canals and their associated irrigated land versus a single longitudinal
   canal


3. 5 Ottoman irrigation system around Qal’a Sussa on the Shatt al Kar


4. 6 Bulk transport of reeds by boat


5. 1 Chronological distribution of tablets during the five kings and
   106 years of the Ur III state


6. 2 Size measurements (in Sumerian iku) of the 452 fields (a-sˇa 3 )
   measured in the Lagash cadastral texts


7. 3 Shapes of the 269 fields (a-sˇa 3 ) measured in the Lagash cadastral texts


8. 4 Organisation of the supervision of fields and field workers in the
   Ur III period


9. 5 Administrative division of a ‘field’ (a-sˇa 3 ) in the Ur III period


10. 1 Reconstructed plans of Late Uruk monumental buildings in
    Eanna Area at Uruk/Warka


11. 1 Southern Mesopotamia and adjacent regions


12. 2 Surveys and site density in Sumer, Akkad, and adjacent regions


13. 3 Late fourth millennium (Late Uruk period) settlement in Sumer


14. 4 Urbanization and rural abandonment in the early third millennium


15. 5 Mid-third millennium (Late Early Dynastic period) settlement in
    Sumer and Akkad


16. 6 The late third/early second millennium settlement in Sumer


17. 7 Settlement and regional abandonment in the Old Babylonian
    period


18. 8 Later second millennium BC(Kassite) settlement, including
    Adams’ proposed watercourses


19. 9 Number of sites (left y-axis) and settled area (right y-axis) in three
    surveyed regions


20. 10 Urbanization and ruralization in Sumer in the fourth through
    second millennium BC


21. 1 Comparative plans of three Protoliterate towns


22. 2 Plan showing an Uruk to Early Dynastic I landscape


23. 3 Plans showing the locations of Oval temples at Khafajah, Pashime,
    Lagash, and Ubaid


24. 4 Comparative views of Eridu and Kish


25. 5 Late Early Dynastic residential districts at Lagash and Nippur Survey
    Site 1271


26. 6 Plan of Mashkan-shapir


27. 7 Comparative plans of third millennium Khafajah and second
    millennium Ur


28. 8 Early second millennium residential districts at Tell Asmar and
    Tell Halawa


29. 1 City map of Uruk


30. 2 City map of Khafajah


31. 3 Sin Temple and Small Temple of Khafajah


32. 4 Temple Oval Khafaje phase 2


33. 5 The ziggurat at Ur and its surroundings

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