Inscriptions from Adab /
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"After the first few portraits, this volume is made up of accounts ... illustrating the conduct of business in the city and temple of Adab during the third millennium B.C."--Foreword.
At head of titel page : The University of Chicago Oriental institute publications, vol. XIV.
Edited by Edward Chiera. cf. Foreword.
The numbered leaves are printed on one side only.
The texts are from the "Oriental institute collections." cf. pages 7. :
ix, 8 pages, 87 number l. ; 31 cm.
Ships of the desert and ships of the sea : Palmyra in the World Trade of the first three centuries CE /
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In the Roman period the world from the Atlantic Ocean to the East China Sea was tied together by ships and caravans carrying textiles, minerals, aromatics, and other valuable commodities across vast distances. In the span of three short centuries the Syrian city of Palmyra rose from unremarkable origins to assume a key role in this exchange, a position that eventually enabled her to, albeit unsuccessfully, take on the might of Rome herself. This first book-length survey of Palmyrene trade in almost four decades asks how this was possible for the people of a city that was neither on the shortest, nor on the easiest route between east and west. The study draws on the wealth of epigraphic, literary, and archaeological data handed down from the ancient city as well as the extensive scholarly tradition. This material is juxtaposed with information about the natural and geopolitical environment, ethnographic records, and network analysis, in order to explain the remarkable success of the cosmopolitan desert nomads of Palmyra.
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vii, 112 pages : 14 illustrations, 9 maps ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-106) and index. :
9783447107044
Inscriptions from Alishar and vicinity /
: The material now presented includes Cappadocian, Sumerian, Hittite hieroglyphic, Greek and Arabic inscriptions. Of these by far the most numerous are the Cappadocian tests."--Pref. : xv, 84 pages, LXIII plates : 1 illustrations, maps, plates, plan ; 31 cm. : Bibliograbhy : pages xiii-xiv.
Sumerian economic texts from the third Ur dynasty : a catalogue and discussion of documents from various collections /
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Reprint of the edition published by University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
Texts presented in a transliterated form. :
xix, 421 pages ; 28 cm. :
Bibliography : pages 347-352. :
0837173116