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The correspondence of the kings of Ur : an epistolary history of an ancient Mesopotamian kingdom
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ISBN: 9781575061948 1575061945 1575066505 Year: 2011 Volume: 15 Publisher: Winona Lake, IN : Eisenbrauns,

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The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur is a collection of literary letters between the Ur III monarchs and their high officials at the end of the third millennium B.C. The letters cover topics of royal authority and proper governance, defense of frontier regions, and the ultimate disintegration of the empire and represent the largest corpus of Sumerian prose literature we possess. This long-awaited edition, based on extensive collation of almost all extant manuscripts, numbering more than a hundred, includes detailed historical and literary analyses, and copious philological commentary. It entirely supersedes the Michalowski’s oft-cited unpublished Yale dissertation of 1976.The edition is accompanied by an extensive analysis of the place of the letters in early second-millennium schooling, treating the letters as literature, followed by chapters that contextualize the epistolary material within historical and historiographic contexts, utilizing many Sumerian archival, literary, and historical sources. The main objective here is to try to navigate the complex issues of authenticity, authority, and fiction that arise from the study of these literary artifacts. In addition, Michalowski offers new hypotheses about many aspects of late third-millennium history, including essays on military history and strategy, on frontiers, on the nature and putative character of nomadism at the time, as well as a long chapter on the role of a people designated as Amorites.The included DVD includes various photographs at high resolution of most of the tablets included in the study.


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Law collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor
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ISBN: 0788503782 Year: 1997 Volume: 6 Publisher: Atlanta, GA : Scholars Press,

Approaches to Sumerian literature : studies in honour of Stip (H.L.J. Vanstiphout)
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ISBN: 1281399752 9786611399757 9047410688 9789047410683 9781281399755 900415325X 9789004153257 9789047410683 6611399755 Year: 2006 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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This volume, dedicated to H.L.J. Vanstiphout at the occasion of his retirement from the University of Groningen, July 14th 2006, demonstrates the broad variety of scholarly approaches to the study of ancient Sumerian literature. It contains contributions by Bendt Alster (Ninurta and the Turtle), Nicole Brisch (In Praise of the Kings of Larsa), A.J. Ferrara (A Hodgepodge of Snippets), Alhena Gadotti (Gilgameš, Gudam and the Singer), W.W. Hallo (A Sumerian Apocryphon?), Dina Katz (Appeals to Utu), Jacob Klein (Man and His God), Piotr Michalowski (The Strange History of Tumal), Gonzalo Rubio (Šulgi and the Death of Sumerian), Niek Veldhuis (How Did They Learn Cuneiform?), and Claus Wilcke (Die Hymne auf das Heiligtum Keš).


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Antes del diluvio : Mesopotamia 3500-2100 A.C.
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ISBN: 9788434313149 Year: 2012 Publisher: Barcelona Obra Social "la caixa"

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