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Presargonic Period

Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700-2350 BC)

by (author) Douglas Frayne

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
May 2008
Category
General, Archaeology
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442690479
    Publish Date
    May 2008
    List Price
    $258.00
  • 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.

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