Download or read book The Sumerian Dam K r E Ne of the Third Ur Dynasty written by Nels W. Forde and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sumerian DAM K R E NE of the Third Ur Dynasty written by Nels Walter Forde and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sumeria Dam k r e ne of the Third Ur Dynasty written by Nels Walter Forde and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study in Sumerian Administration History of the Third Ur Dynasty written by Margaret Helene Mahoney and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study in Sumerian Administrtive History of the Third Ur Dynasty written by Margaret Helen Mahoney and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sumerian Economic Texts from the Third Ur Dynasty written by Tom B. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1961-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sumerian Economic Texts from the Third Ur Dynasty was first published in 1961. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is a study and catalogue of some 350 hitherto unpublished Sumerian cuneiform documents, nearly all economic in nature. The authors describe the transliterate each document and present viewpoints regarding certain important classes of the texts. The findings of the study may lead to renewed interest in the third Ur Dynasty, which scholars have long regarded as relatively unimportant because its history is the swan song of Sumerian autonomy and culture.
Download or read book Land Tenure and Social Stratification in Ancient Mesopotamia written by E. L. Cripps and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research is concerned with the city-states of the area known for the latter part of this period as ki-en-gi, the limits of which regularly varied with the shifting channels of the Tigris to the east and the Euphrates to the west. The texts, which are the database of this study, originate from Souruppak towards the south and Nippur and Isin in the north of Sumer. The primary evidence for types of land tenure in third millennium Sumer is adduced from cuneiform text archives from Early Dynastic Souruppak (Fara), pre- or early Sargonic Isin and Nippur of the classical Sargonic period. These archives are, arguably, administrative and economic records from palace, temple and private households. The study incorporates and emphasises transactions concerning real property from the genre of texts usually represented as sale documents or sale contracts.
Download or read book Sumerian Economic Texts from the Third Ur Dynasty written by Tom Bard Jones and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study in Sumerian Administrative History of the Third Ur Dynasty written by Margaret Helene Mahoney and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sumerian City Nippur in the Period of the Third Dynasty of Ur written by Thomas Fish and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ur and Uruk written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Examines the Sumerians' culture, daily life at the cities, and architecture *Includes ancient accounts describing the cities *Includes a bibliography for further reading In southern Iraq, a crushing silence hangs over the dunes. For nearly 5,000 years, the sands of the Iraqi desert have held the remains of the oldest known civilization: the Sumerians. When American archaeologists discovered a collection of cuneiform tablets in Iraq in the late 19th century, they were confronted with a language and a people who were at the time only scarcely known to even the most knowledgeable scholars of ancient Mesopotamia. The exploits and achievements of other Mesopotamian peoples, such as the Assyrians and Babylonians, were already known to a large segment of the population through the Old Testament and the nascent field of Near Eastern studies had unraveled the enigma of the Akkadian language that was widely used throughout the region in ancient times, but the discovery of the Sumerian tablets brought to light the existence of the Sumerian culture, which was the oldest of all the Mesopotamian cultures. Although the Sumerians continue to get second or even third billing compared to the Babylonians and Assyrians, perhaps because they never built an empire as great as the Assyrians or established a city as enduring and great as Babylon, they were the people who provided the template of civilization that all later Mesopotamians built upon. The Sumerians are credited with being the first people to invent writing, libraries, cities, and schools in Mesopotamia (Ziskind 1972, 34), and many would argue that they were the first people to create and do those things anywhere in world. No site better represents the importance of the Sumerians than the city of Uruk. Between the fourth and the third millennium BCE, Uruk was one of several city-states in the land of Sumer, located in the southern end of the Fertile Crescent, between the two great rivers of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Discovered in the late 19th century by the British archaeologist William Loftus, it is this site that has revealed much of what is now known of the Sumerian, Akkadian, and Neo-Sumerian people. Although Uruk was not the only city that the Sumerians built during the Uruk period, it was by far the greatest and also the source of most of the archeological and written evidence concerning early Sumerian culture (Kuhrt 2010, 1:23). Uruk went from being the world's first major city to the most important political and cultural center in the ancient Near East in relatively quick fashion. Long before Alexandria was a city and even before Memphis and Babylon had attained greatness, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur stood foremost among ancient Near Eastern cities. Today, the greatness and cultural influence of Ur has been largely forgotten by most people, partially because its monuments have not stood the test of time the way other ancient culture's monuments have. For instance, the monuments of Egypt were made of stone while those of Ur and most other Mesopotamian cities were made of mud brick and as will be discussed in this report, mud-brick may be an easier material to work with than stone but it also decays much quicker. The same is true to a certain extent for the written documents that were produced at Ur. At its height Ur was the center of a great dynasty that controlled most of Mesopotamia directly through a well maintained army and bureaucracy and the areas that were not under its direct control were influenced by Ur's diplomats and religious ideas. Ur was also a truly resilient city because it survived the downfall of the Sumerians, outright destruction at the hands of the Elamites, and later occupations by numerous other peoples, which included Saddam Hussein more recently.
Download or read book Some Sumerian Merchants of the Ur III Dynasty written by Sreemoti Mukerjee Roy and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sumerian Economic Texts from the Third Ur Dynasty written by Tom Bard Jones and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lamentation Over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur written by Piotr Michalowski and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents for the first time in its entirety the long Sumerian poem describing the destruction and suffering in Babylonia during the final days of the Third Dynasty of Ur. The text is both an important work of native historiography and a moving literary composition. The author's introduction places the work within the Sumerian literary tradition, and evaluates it as a historical source. Indexes and copies of unpublished texts are included.
Download or read book Sumer and the Sumerians written by Harriet E. W. Crawford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the social and technological developments in Mesopotamia, from 3800 to 2000 BC.
Download or read book The Sumerians written by Leonard Woolley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1965 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the civilization of the Sumerians, who inhabited the land which today is Iraq, in the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C.
Download or read book An Ox of One s Own written by T. M. Sharlach and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shulgi-simti is an important example of a woman involved in sponsoring religious activities though having a family life. An Ox of One’s Own will be of interest to Assyriologists, particularly those interested in Early Mesopotamia, and scholars working on women in religion. An Ox of One’s Own centers on the archive of a woman who died about 2050 B.C., one of King Shulgi’s many wives. Her birth name is unknown, but when she married, she became Shulgi-simti, “Suitable for Shulgi.” Attested for only about 15 years, she existed among a court filled with other wives, who probably outranked her. A religious foundation was run on her behalf whereby courtiers, male and female, donated livestock for sacrifices to an unusual mix of goddesses and gods. Previous scholarship has declared this a rare example of a queen conducting women’s religion, perhaps unusual because they say she came from abroad. The conclusions of this book are quite different. An Ox of One’s Own lays out the evidence that another woman was queen at this time in Nippur while Shulgi-simti lived in Ur and was a third-ranking concubine at best, with few economic resources. Shulgi-simti’s religious exercises concentrated on a quartet of north Babylonian goddesses.
