University of Chicago Press, 1972. — 241 p. — ISBN: 0-226-00500-3. The archaeological reconnaissance furnishing the substantive data for this study was conducted over a four and one-half month period during the winter and spring of 1967. It had its inception in a discussion between Professor Heinrich Lenzen, then director of the Baghdad Abteilung of the Deutsche Archäologische...
University of Chicago Press, 1993. — 162 p. — ISBN: 0-226-01381-2. Archaeologists and historians have long been keenly interested in the emergence of early cities and states in the ancient Near East, particularly in the growth of early Sumerian civilization in the lowlands of Mesopotamia during the second half of the fourth millennium B.C. Most scholars have focused on the...
Brill Academic Pub, 2003. — 424 p. — (Series: Cuneiform Monographs, Book 23). — ISBN: 90-04-13024-1. This book is about the pantheon of the Babylonian city of Uruk, between the 9th and 5th centuries BC. It is a careful analysis of the archive of the Eanna temple in Uruk, the sanctuary of the goddess Ishtar, containing well over 8,000 cuneiform tablets in the Akkadian language....
Routledge, 2013. — 659 p. — (Routledge Worlds). — ISBN 978–0–415–56967–5 The Sumerian World explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3000 to 2000 BC. Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised thematically using evidence from archaeology, texts and the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 146 p. — (Archaeological Histories). — ISBN: 978-1-47253-369-2. The ancient Mesoptamian city of Ur was a Sumerian city state which flourished as a centre of trade and civilisation between 2800-2000 BCE. However, in the recent past it suffered from the disastrous Gulf war and from neglect. It still remains a potent symbol for people of all faiths and...
University of Chicago Press, 1963. — 355 p. — (Phoenix Books). — ISBN: 0-226-45237-9. The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled...
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959. — 247 p. The very beginnings of man's history are recorded in the strange wedge-shaped marks inscribed upon the tablets of Sumer. Unearthed about a century ago from the mounds in Mesopotamia where they had lain for more than three thousand years, and deciphered only after decades of painstaking work, the tablets tell the story of a civilization...
Originally published in Italian as Uruk: La Prima Città / Edited and translated by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop. — London: Equinox Publishing, 2006. — 97 p. — (Series: BibleWorld). — ISBN: 1-84553-191-4. Uruk: the First City is the first fully historical analysis of the origins of the city and of the state in southern Mesopotamia,the region providing the earliest...
Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2008. — vi + 342 p. — (Göttinger Beiträge zum Alten Orient, Band 1). — ISBN: 978-3-940344-10-6, ISSN: 1866-2595. The kings of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur (2112-2004 BC) were always married with several women at the same time, but only one woman took the position of a queen. Among the large number of economic documents of that period, which...
2nd Edition — University of West Bohemia Pr., 2016. — 232 p. Review of archaeological contexts of seal finds in excavations of early Sumerian Ur (30th-26th centuries BC). How, the, can we envisage the position of the Mesopotamian rulers vis-a-vis their gods and goddesses? This is hardly fitting into the popular cliches pertinent to the ancient Oriental rulers. Kings and queens...
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