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A city from the dawn of history : Erbil in the cuneiform sources / John MacGinnis.

Penn Museum Library DS79.9.I72 M33 2014
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Author/Creator:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Catalogs.
  • History.
  • Sources.
Physical Description:
128 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Other Title:
Erbil in the cuneiform sources
Place of Publication:
Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2014.
Summary:
The City of Erbil, which now claims to be one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, lies on the rich alluvial plains at the foot of the piedmont of the Zagros mountains in a strategic position which from the earliest times made it a natural gateway between Iran and Mesopotamia. Within the context of ancient Mesopotamian civilisation there can be no doubt that it will have been one of the most important urban centres. Yet while the citadel of Erbil is without question a site of exceptional interest, archaeologically the mound has until recently remained virtually untouched. On the other hand rich documentation allows us to understand the context in which the city grew and flourished. This work is dedicated to the cuneiform sources. Together these include hundreds of documents stretching from the late third millennium to the mid first millennium BC. The very first references, in administrative documents from the archives of the royal palace at Ebla, date to ca. 2300 BC. In the eras that follow texts written in Sumerian and then Akkadian attest to the city's periods of independence alternating with its incorporation in the Ur III, Assyrian and Babylonian empires. From the Achaemenid period, while the Elamite texts from Persepolis are mostly unpublished, Erbil does appear both in the famous inscription of Darius I at Behistun and in the celebrated Passport of Nehtihur, an Aramaic document from Elephantine in Egypt. The sources include a wide variety of administrative texts, royal inscriptions, grants, chronicles, letters, votive dedications and oracular pronouncements which together give a unique insight into the history and society of this exceptional city. Book jacket.
Contents:
  • Historical Analysis 25
  • Erbil in the Gutian Period 26
  • Erbil in the Ur III Period 26
  • Erbil in the early second millennium 27
  • Erbil in the Middle Assyrian Period 28
  • Erbil in the Neo-Assyrian period 29
  • Ištar of Arbail 32
  • Milkia 35
  • Erbil in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods 36
  • Summary: from Erridu-Pizir to Alexander - Erbil in the Cuneiform Sources 38
  • Ištar of Arbail 40
  • Egašankalamma 41
  • Milkia 43
  • Conclusion 43
  • The Sources 45
  • Third Millennium Sources 46
  • Ebla Texts 46
  • Gutian Sources 47
  • Erridu-Pizir 47
  • Ur III Sources 48
  • Year names 48
  • Year name for Shulgi year 45 49
  • Year name for Amar-Sin year 2 49
  • Votive inscription 50
  • Administrative Texts 50
  • Texts from Girsu 50
  • Texts from Drehem 50
  • Early Second Millennium Sources 52
  • Stele of Šamši-Adad I 53
  • Stele of Dadusha 55
  • Middle Assyrian Sources 55
  • Historical sources 56
  • Votive inscription 57
  • Administrative texts 37
  • Neo-Assyrian Sources 67
  • Historical Texts 67
  • Chronicles 67
  • King Lists 67
  • Aššur-dan II (934-912 BC) 68
  • Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC) 68
  • Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC) 69
  • Šamši-Adad V (823-811 BC) 69
  • Sennacherib (704-681 BC) 71
  • Esarhaddon (080-66? BC) 72
  • Ashurbanrpal (668-027 BC) 74
  • Epigraphs prepared for reliefs 81
  • Grants/edicts 82
  • Votive Inscription 83
  • Administrative texts 84
  • Oracular Pronouncements and Divination 105
  • Oracular Pronouncements 105
  • Divination 109
  • Hymns and Ritual texts 109
  • Istar of Arbail 115
  • Royal inscriptions 115
  • Treaties 115
  • Letter formulae 116
  • Personal names 117
  • Neo-Babylonian and Achacmenid Sources 118
  • Historical texts 118
  • Neo-Babylonian Chronicle 118
  • Behistun 119
  • Administrative texts 120
  • Babylonian 120
  • Elamite 120
  • Aramaic 121
  • Astronomical Diary 122.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-128).
ISBN:
  • 9781782977971
  • 178297797X
OCLC:
881039963

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