Medieval urban landscape in northeastern Mesopotamia /
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The authors investigate the sites which formed an urban network from 6th to 19th centuries in the region of northeastern Mesopotamia, bounded by the rivers Great Zab, Little Zab and Tigris.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784915193 (ebook) :
Egitto, Iraq ed Etruria nelle fotografie di John Alfred Spranger : viaggi e ricerche archeologiche (1929-1936) /
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This volume presents the 1930s archaeological photo-albums of photos make it possible to understand, after almost a century, how many Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Etruscan sites appeared at the time of their first excavations.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789691276 (ebook) :
The Roman frontier with Persia in North-Eastern Mesopotamia : fortresses and roads around Singara /
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This volume investigates the Roman city of Singara and the fortifications and roads in the surrounding area. The Rome/Persia frontier has been little studied, in part because of the difficulty of access for scholars, but was of great importance because it separated the two major civilisations of the early first millennium CE.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (v, 135 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803273433 (PDF ebook) :
Working at home in the ancient Near East /
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'Working at Home in the Ancient Near East' brings together the papers and discussions from an international workshop organised within the framework of the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East held in Vienna in April 2016. It examines the organisation, scale, and the socio-economic role played by institutional and non-institutional households, as well as the social use of domestic spaces in Bronze Age Mesopotamia. The invited speakers - archaeologists, philologists, and historians specialising in ancient Mesopotamia - who approached these topics from different perspectives and by analysing different datasets were encouraged to exchange their views and to discuss methodological concerns and common problems.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Papers and discussions from an international workshop organised within the framework of the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Vienna, April 2016. :
1 online resource (124 pages) : illustrations. :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789695922 (PDF ebook) :
Glass and glass production in the Near East during the Iron Age : evidence from objects, texts and chemical analysis /
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Glass and Glass Production in the Near East during the Iron Age Period' examines the history of glass in Iron Age Mesopotamia and neighbouring regions (1000-539 BCE). This is the first monograph to cover this region and period comprehensively and in detail and thus fills a significant gap in glass research. It focuses on an identification of the different types of glass objects and their respective manufacturing techniques that existed in the Iron Age period. Both the material glass and individual glass objects are investigated for such topics as how raw glass (primary production) and glass objects (secondary production) were manufactured at that time, how both these industries were organized, and how widespread glass objects were in Mesopotamian society in the Iron Age period. Such a comprehensive picture of glass and its production in the Iron Age can only be achieved by setting archaeological data in relation to cuneiform texts, archaeometric analyses and experimental-archaeological investigations. With regard to the different disciplines incorporated into this study, an attempt was made to view them together and to establish connections between these areas.
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viii, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm. :
9781789691542
For the gods of Girsu : city-state formation in ancient Sumer /
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This work demonstrates Girsu is a primary locale for re-analyzing, through an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological and textual evidence, the origins of the Sumerian city-state.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784913908 (ebook) :
Glass and glass production in the Near East during the Iron Age period : evidence from objects, texts and chemical analysis /
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This text examines the history of glass in Iron Age Mesopotamia and neighbouring regions (1000-539 BCE). This monograph covers this region and period comprehensively and in detail.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (viii, 316 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
Specialized. :
9781789691559 (ebook) :
The archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and adjacent regions /
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Conference proceedings presenting the first opportunity for leading figures in the burgeoning area of archaeological research in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq to gather and present all the key new projects which are revolutionising our understanding of the region.
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Conference proceedings.
Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784913946 (ebook) :
Études mMesopotamiennes = Mesopotamian studies.
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This volume presents a collection of articles, communications and preliminary reports representing the advancement, in recent years, of human sciences - archaeological, historical, philological and cultural researches - concerning ancient Mesopotamia area studies.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (iv, 330 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781784919429 (ebook) :
Laying the foundations : manual of the British Museum Iraq Scheme archaeological training programme /
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This title, which developed out of the British Museum's 'Iraq Scheme' archaeological training programme, covers the core components for putting together and running an archaeological field programme. While the manual is oriented to the archaeology of Iraq, the approaches are no less applicable to the Middle East more widely.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781803271415 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
The geography of trade : landscapes of competition and long-distance contacts in Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Old Assyrian colony period /
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A reassessment of the Old-Assyrian trade network in Upper Mesopotamia and Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age, this volume examines exchange networks and economic strategies, continuity and discontinuity of specific trade circuits and routes, and the evolution of political landscapes throughout the Near East.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784919269 (ebook) :
Iron oxide rock artefacts in Mesopotamia c. 2600-1200 BC : an interdisciplinary study of hematite, goethite and magnetite objects /
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The flourishing civilisations of Mesopotamia imported all kinds of materials from the surrounding regions. Iron oxide rock was very popular for weight stones and cylinder seals around 2000 BC. This research aims to determine the region of origin for the raw material, what made people start using iron oxide rock, and what led them to stop using it.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (vi, 258 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784919658 (ebook) :
The Pax Assyriaca : the historical evolution of civilisations and the archaeology of empires /
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This volume provides a study of the evolutionary process of ancient civilisations, stressing the comparison between theoretical principles and relevant historical and archaeological evidence. For this reason, the study focuses on the origin, development and collapse of the first stage of the 'Central Civilization', which was the result of the merger of two primeval civilisations, Mesopotamia and Egypt, during the 'Near Eastern phase' of this Central Civilisation. This merger seems to have been the result of the political expansion of an imperial entity coming from Mesopotamia under the aegis of the so-called Neo-Assyrian Empire from 1000 BC to 600 BC - better known as the Pax Assyriaca - although the process of full integration with Egypt seems to have been concluded, according to the archaeological records, only by the successor empires of Assyria circa 430 BC.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789690637 (PDF ebook) :
Études Mésopotamiennes = Mésopotamian studies.
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This volume is in two parts. The first part corresponds to the proceedings of a colloquium organised by Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault. It explores the crisis of the State and the Monarchy between the 13th and 10th centuries in Northern Mesopotamia and Syria from archaeological, textual and iconographic sources. The second part is dedicated to archaeological and textual studies from three archaeological sites that are currently being excavated in Iraqi Kurdistan - Qasr Shemamoq, Kilik Mishik and Kunara.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (iv, 547 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803273730 (PDF ebook) :
Pottery from the University of California, Berkeley excavations in the area of the Maški Gate (MG22), Nineveh, 1989-1990 /
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This work presents the pottery from the UC Berkeley excavations in 1989 and 1990. Nineveh is one of the longest occupied cities in the world, with a record of habitation extending back to at least the middle of the 7th millennium BC, continuing in an almost uninterrupted sequence through today. It was one of the major urban centres in which the fundamental features of modern civilisation first emerged. Its political and religious significance - particularly during its apogee as the capital of the Assyrian Empire in the late 8th and 7th centuries BC - secured its status as a legendary metropolis in history and literature.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (154 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803272160 (PDF ebook) :