Akkadian : MH66.

This collection of 47 documents, all in English, discuss the Akkadian tradition in Iran, Iraq, and Syria from 4334 BP-4112 BP (2334 BC-2112 BC). Several documents discuss the political institutions of the Akkadian tradition, including the development of the political institutions of the Akkad dynast...

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Corporate Author: Human Relations Area Files, inc
Other Authors: Shell, Colin, Bogaard, Amy, 1972-, Finkel, Irving L., Bonechi, Marco, Morales, Arturo, Daszkiewicz, Małgorzata, Ambers, J., Brill, Robert H., Charles, Michael, Clutton-Brock, Juliet, Cooper, Jerrold S., Courty, M. A., Eidem, J., Felli, Candida, Foster, Benjamin R., Frayne, Douglas, French, C. A. I., Hansen, Donald P., Henderson, Julian, 1953-, Liverani, Mario, Matthews, Wendy, McDonald, Helen, 1964-, Michalowski, Piotr, 1948-, Molleson, Theya Ivitsky, Nissen, Hans Jörg, Northover, Jeremy P., Oates, David, 1927-, Oates, Joan, Roselló Izquierdo, Eufrasia, Schneider, Gerwulf, Steinkeller, Piotr, Weber, Jill A., Weiss, Harvey, 1945-, Westenholz, Aage, Westenholz, Joan Goodnick, 1943-2013, Wilkinson, T. J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2010-
Series:EHRAF archaeology. Middle East.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Radiocarbon results for Tell Brak / Janet Ambers
  • Analysis of the Akkadian 'glass' objects from Tell Brak / Robert Brill and Colin Shell
  • Third-millennium BC charred plant remains from Tell Brak / Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
  • Ritual burials of a dog and six domestic donkeys / Juliet Clutton-Brock
  • Paradigm and propaganda, the dynasty of Akkade in the 21st century / Jerrold S. Cooper
  • Evidence at Tell Brak for the late ED III/Early Akkadian airt blast event (4 kyr BP) / Marie-Agnès Courty
  • The third-millennium inscriptions / Jesper Eidem, Irving Finkel and Marco Bonechi
  • Some notes on the Akkadian glyptic from Tell Brak / Candida Felli
  • Select bibliography of the Sargonic period ; Management and administration in the Sargonic period / Benjamin R. Foster
  • Sargonic and Gutian periods, 2334-2113 BC / Douglas Frayne
  • Micromorphology of a type 5 sling bullet / Charly French
  • The reclining human-faced bison sculpture from Area SS / Donald P. Hansen
  • Analysis of the third-millennium glazes / Julian Henderson
  • Akkad, an introduction ; Model and actualization, the kings of Akkad in the historical tradition / Mario Liverani
  • Abbreviations / Mario Liverani
  • Microstratigraphic analysis of depositional sequences in Areas FS and SS / W. Matthews, C.A.I. French, T. Lawrence, D.F. Cutler and M.K. Jones
  • Third-millennium metalwork / Helen McDonald, John Curtis and Rachael Maxwell-Hyslop
  • Third-millennium beads and pendants ; Third-millennium clay objects / Helen McDonald
  • Memory and deed, the historiography of the political expansion of the Akkad state / Piotr Michalowski
  • Note on the human skeletal material from Area FS / Theya Molleson
  • Settlement patterns and material culture of the Akkadian period, continuity and discontinuity / Hans J. Nissen
  • Analysis of metalwork from Tell Brak / J.P. Northover
  • Introduction ; References ; Artefact drawings ; Catalogue information for objects published in photographs ; Brak third-millennium locus list / David Oates, Joan Oates and Helen McDonald
  • The excavations ; Archaeological reconstruction and historical commentary / David Oates and Joan Oates
  • The evidence of the sealings ; The third-millennium pottery ; Third-millennium BC glass, frit and faience objects ; Third-millennium BC stone objects ; Equid figurines and chariot models ; Organic materials / Joan Oates
  • Fish offerings from Tell Brak? Comments on an articulated specimen found in the 1990 season / Eufrasia Roselló Izquierdo, Arturo Morales Muñiz
  • Stone ware and Ninevite 5, notes on composition and technology of pottery from Tell Brak / Gerwulf Schneider and Malgorzata Daszkiewicz
  • Early political development in Mesopotamia and the origins of the Sargonic empire / Piotr Steinkeller
  • A preliminary assessment of Akkadian and post-Akkadian animal exploitation at Tell Brak / Jill A. Weber
  • The genesis and collapse of the Akkadian empire, the accidental refraction of historical law / Harvey Weiss and Marie-Agnès Courty
  • The genesis and collapse of third millennium north Mesopotamian civilization / H. Weiss, M.-A. Courty, W. Wetterstrom, F. Guichard, L. Senior, R. Meadow, A. Curnow
  • Tradition summary, Akkadian / Harvey Weiss ; synopsis and indexing notes by Sarah Berry
  • The world view of Sargonic officials, differences in mentality between Sumerians and Akkadians / Aage Westenholz
  • Legends of the kings of Akkade, the texts / Joan Goodnick Westenholz
  • Geoarchaeology, landscape and the region / T.J. Wilkinson, C.A.I. French, W. Matthews and J. Oates.