Abu Salabikh: everyday life, 348 , 351 , 352 , 353 , 355 ;
physical remains, 159 – 60 , 161 , 162 , 167 , 168 ;
scribes, 290 , 297
Abu Temple, Tell Asmar, 162
Acropolis, 539 – 40 , 546
Adab (city), 140 , 309 , 449
Adams, R. McC., 57 , 69 , 158 , 398 , 568 ; and
hydraulic landscapes and irrigation systems, 40 ,
46 ; and physical geography, 19 , 20 – 1 , 29 n; and
survey evidence, 134 , 136 ; and Uruk period, 71 ,
72 – 3 , 74 , 89 n
administrative texts, 34 , 35 , 42 , 112 , 123 , 309 ;
clergy, 246 ; Early Dynastic period, 367 ;
royalty, images of, 211 , 215 – 16 ; Ur III period,
215 – 16
aeolian deflation, 20
agency, and women, 359 – 77
Age of the State Archives, 538
agglutination, word structure, 96
agriculture, 34 , 64 , 395 ; field management, 59 – 64 ;
and land management (Ur III period), 55 – 65 ;
landscape, 57 – 9 ; typography and agricultural
fields, 58 – 9 ; and water supply, 46 – 8
agro-pastoral economy, north Mesopotamia,
470 – 1
Akalamdug, seals of, 119
akiti-festival, 238 , 257
Akkad, state of: as “First World Empire,” 120 – 4 ;
settlement patterns, 131 – 52
Akkadian period (c. 2350 – 2200 BC), 85 , 116 ;
clergy, 247 ; craft industries, 413 ; emergence of
scribe, 300 ; fashion, 386 – 7 ; iconography, 334 ;
kings and queens, 205 , 502 – 4 ; language, 95 ,
100 , 103 – 4 , 300 ; mathematics, 309 – 10 ; north
Mesopotamia, third millennium, 468 , 472 ;
scribes, 297 – 303 ; seals in, 333 – 6 ; and western
Syria, 487 – 8 ; women in, 369 – 71
Alexander the Great, 68
al Gailani, L., 378 – 92 , 393
Algaze, G., 68 – 94 , 411 – 12 , 561 – 2
Al-Hai, Iraq, 504
al-Hiba/Lagash, city mound, 33 , 345 , 352 – 3
Alizadeh, A., 568
Alluvial Mesopotamia: physical geography, 14 , 15 ,
16 , 20 , 22 ; Uruk period, 69 , 70 , 71 – 2 , 75 , 83 ,
87 ; see alsoMesopotamia
Amara, 19
Amar-Suen (king), 58 , 64 , 123 , 231 , 254 , 259 , 425
Ameri, M., 614
Amiet, P., 335 , 566
Ammisaduqa, 282
Amorite rule, Mari kingdom, 528 – 9 , 532 – 6 ; glacis
and outer wall, 532 – 3 ; kings, history, 532 ;
palace, 533 , 534 , 535 , 536 ; temples, 536
Anatolia, 499 , 500 , 502 , 505 , 563 ; metal and
standardization of value, 508 – 9 , 510 ; Syrian
Bottle, 506 , 507
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