Presargonic Period
Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700-2350 BC)
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2008
- Category
- General, Archaeology
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442690479
- Publish Date
- May 2008
- List Price
- $258.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802035868
- Publish Date
- May 2008
- List Price
- $314.00
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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.
About the author
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.