The late 4th millennium in South Mesopotamia is universally known as the Uruk Period because it is at Uruk that the German excavations have exposed the most remarkable manifestations of this complex society. Although the Uruk period in Iraq itself remains little understood, in recent decades artefacts and entire settlements have been discovered in places as far apart as the Mahi Dasht in Iran and the Euphrates in South-eastern Turkey. This volume attempts to track the Uruk phenomenon in the Near East, bringing together research on some of the most significant individual sites within the Levant and Egypt, placing emphasis on the artefactual evidence. The eleven papers were originally presented at a conference in Manchester in 1998. The contributors are Hans Nissen, Renate Gut, Mitchell Rothman, Virginia Badler, Joan Oates, Marcella Frangipane, Gil Stein, Fiona Stephen, Edgar Peltenburg, Govert van Driel, Graham Philip and Toby Wilkinson.

Artefacts of Complexity: Tracking the Uruk in the Near East (Iraq Archaeological Reports)

History

Postgate, J. Nicholas

Ancient Civilizations

British Institute for the Study of Iraq

<p>For all five thousand years of its history Iraq has been home to a mixture of languages, spoken and written, and the same is true today. In November 2003, to celebrate the country's rich diversity and long history as a centre of civilisation the British School presented a series of talks by experts on each of the major languages of Iraq and their history, and this illustrated volume brings these now to a wider public. Iraq's languages come from different linguistic families - Semitic, Indo-European, and agglutinative languages like Sumerian, Hurrian and Turkish. Some, although long dead, have a prime place in the history of the Old World: Sumerian, probably the first language to be written and the vehicle of cuneiform scholarship for more than two millennia, and Akkadian, the language of Hammurapi and the Epic of Gilgamesh, and used across the Near East for administration and diplomacy. The history of Aramaic is even longer, stretching back to overlap with Akkadian before 1000 BC. It survives, precariously, in both written and spoken forms, being one of four languages spoken in Iraq today. Of these Arabic as a major world language has often been described, but here we have an account of the vernacular Iraqi Arabic dialects, and the descriptions of Iraqi Kurdish and Turkman are unique, detailed and authoritative.</p>

Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern

This book brings together a selection of twenty-eight previously disparate articles by Nicholas Postgate that represent some thirty years of engagement with the nature of Assyrian society and government. Most are broadly synthetic and deal with general issues; they are a tremendous body of work, and this will be an invaluable collection for everyone interested in Assyria.

The Land of Assur and the Yoke of Assur: Studies on Assyria 1971-2005

Oxbow Books

This book brings together a selection of twenty-eight previously disparate articles by Nicholas Postgate that represent some thirty years of engagement with the nature of Assyrian society and government. Most are broadly synthetic and deal with general issues; they are a tremendous body of work, and this will be an invaluable collection for everyone interested in Assyria.Table of ContentsLand tenure in the Middle Assyrian period: A reconstruction Some remarks on conditions in the Assyrian countryside Royal exercise of justice under the Assyrian Empire Princeps index in Assyria Nomads and sedentaries in the Middle Assyrian sources The economic structure of the Assyrian Empire The place of the Šaknu in Assyrian government A plea for the abolition of Šessimur Ilku and land tenure in the Middle Assyrian Kingdom: A second attempt The columns of Kapara First fruits and Tempel-Schuldscheine The Middle Assyrian provinces Middle Assyrian tablets: The instruments of bureaucracy Employer, employee and employment in the Neo-Assyrian Empire Ownership and exploitation of land in Assyria in the 1st millennium BC The Assyrian Porsche? The Land of Assur and the Yoke of Assur Rings, torcs and bracelets Middle Assyrian to Neo-Assyrian: The nature of the shift Some latter-day merchants of Assur Assyria: The Home Provinces The Assyrian army in Zamua Assyrian felt Assyrian uniforms System and style in three Near Eastern bureaucracies Business and government at Middle Assyrian Rimah Documents in government under the Middle Assyrian Kingdom The invisible hierarchy: Assyrian military and civilian administration in the 8th and 7th centuries BC

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Artefacts of Complexity: Tracking the Uruk in the Near East (Iraq Archaeological Reports)

Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern

The Land of Assur and the Yoke of Assur: Studies on Assyria 1971-2005

The Land of Assur and the Yoke of Assur: Studies on Assyria 1971-2005