Presargonic Period
Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700-2350 BC)
Will be published approx. on 17. May 2008
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-8020-3586-8 (ISBN)
Description
The book Presargonic Period (2700-2350 BC) provides editions of all known royal inscriptions of kings who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia down to the advent of King Sargon of Akkad. Most of the inscriptions come from the city states of Lagsh and Umma; inscriptions from other sites are rather poorly attested. The volume includes a handful of new inscriptions recently uncovered in Iraq.
Information on museum numbers, excavation numbers, provenances, dimensions, and lines preserved in the various exemplars are displayed for multi-exemplar texts in an easy-to-read tabular form. Also included in several commentary sections are notes on the find-spots of the inscriptions from Lagas and references about various toponymns to be discussed in a forthcoming study of the author on the geography of Lagas and Umma provinces.
Indexes of museum numbers, excavation numbers, and concordances of selected publications complete the volume.
Information on museum numbers, excavation numbers, provenances, dimensions, and lines preserved in the various exemplars are displayed for multi-exemplar texts in an easy-to-read tabular form. Also included in several commentary sections are notes on the find-spots of the inscriptions from Lagas and references about various toponymns to be discussed in a forthcoming study of the author on the geography of Lagas and Umma provinces.
Indexes of museum numbers, excavation numbers, and concordances of selected publications complete the volume.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 222 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1520 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-3586-8 (9780802035868)
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Douglas Frayne is Assistant Editor with the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project and Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Toronto.