City of Culture 2600 BC : Early Mesopotamian History and Archaeology at Abu Salabikh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Postgate, J. N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2024.

Summary:

This book presents the city beneath the surface of Abu Salabikh, southern Iraq. The archaeology and the textual data combine to reveal its architecture, agricultural and industrial enterprises, and social structure. Integrated with our wider knowledge of south Mesopotamia at this time it creates a vivid image of city life in 2600 BC.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Information

Contents

List of Figures

The dig team, 1976.

Figure 1.1. South Mesopotamia in the mid-Third Millennium. Water courses all subject to correction.

Figure 1.2. Visitors to the site survey, 1973. Khalaf Taleb al-Angoud, McGuire Gibson, Julian Reade, Hilary Stuart-Williams, S. Nan Shaw, Diana Kirkbride Helbaek, Nahidh Abdurrazzaq, Miguel Civil, Bedr Abbas.

Figure 1.3. The central mounds after the 1973 survey, showing Chicago Areas A and E. (Iraq 38: 136).

Figure 1.4. Composite cross-section through Main Mound and West Mound, showing water beds (T.J. Wilkinson Iraq 52: 81, Fig. 5)

Figure 1.5. Satellite view of site, north to the top. Showing location of 5G and 6H Houses. Image thanks to Elizabeth Stone, courtesy Digital Globe Corporation.

Figure 1.6. Late vertical ceramic drain sunk into south corridor (photo Postgate & Moon 1984: 6; plan Iraq 38: 144 in 6G65b. Cf. similar drain in 6G76 ASE 4 Fig. 1.27, location Fig. 1.24).

Figure 1.7. Dust storm approaching, looking east from camp. 1983.

Figure 1.8. Miniature wadi, on Main Mound, showing disintegrating sherds.

Figure 2.1. Site with outlying mounds (ASE 1 p. 2)

Figure 2.2. Area E 1963-65, 1975-76 with completed plan of Southern Unit. (Iraq 39: 279)

Figure 2.3. Strip cleared across the city wall at the north end of Main Mound, looking north. The north and south faces of the wall are delimited by the dark deposits each end of the trench. (Iraq 49: Pl. XXIVd; plan p.108 Fig. 4, square 3J).

Figure 2.4. Section along north side of squares 5I78 and 5I79, showing late tip lines sloping off outer face of earlier city walls. (Iraq 46: 105 Fig. 6; plan p. 102)

Figure 2.5. The Main Mound plan after conclusion of clearance programme in 1989. (Iraq 52: 96 Fig. 1.)

Figure 2.6. Surface clearance in progress on the West Mound, 1977.

Figure 2.7. West Mound: ED I architectural layout, 1977-8. (after ASE 1 Fig. 354).

Figure 3.1. 5G House to show rooms and soundings. The room labels suggest the principal activities but some rooms are likely to have been multi-functional (after ASE 5 Plate 6)

Figure 3.2. Excavation of 6H House in progress: Rooms 67 and Grave 234 behind, viewed from the west.

Figure 3.3. 6H House Level IC (after ASE 5 Plate 12).

Figure 3.4. Gudea, ensi of Lagaš. Statue B: the temple plan on his lap, with a graduated ruler faintly visible in front. © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)/ Philippe Fuseau

Figure 3.5. Ur-Nammu stele: upper register with measuring rod and line. Lower register, Ur-Nammu with building tools and basket over his shoulder. © Courtesy of the Penn Museum, image 141417.

Figure 3.6. Ur-Nanše of Lagaš in royal builder role, with his family all identified by name. (de Sarzec 1884-1912: Planche 2 bis).

Figure 3.7. Making mud-bricks for the excavation house, down by the canal. September 1976.

Figure 3.8. Plano-convex bricks: brick-lay in south wall of Gr 244 (ASE 5: 288 (Fig. 6.2). Cf. ASE 5: p. 289 Photo 6.107, p. 291 Photo 6.111.

Figure 3.9. Plano-convex bricks: the east wall of Room 39 in the Southern Unit, from west (1976). Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

1-80327-670-3

OCLC:

1474240361