Constituent, Confederate, and Conquered Space
Constituent, Confederate, and Conquered Space

Author: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 3110370298

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The Mittani empire is one of the most enigmatic political structures in Mesopotamian history. Reconstructing the emergence and the organisation of this state, whose territory encompassed Upper Mesopotamia touching the Levant and the piedmont plains of the Zagros in the East at the height of its power, is exceedingly difficult. Cuneiform specialists, archeologists and historians discuss the Mittani state with regard to modes of spatial organisation co- and preexisting in the region.

A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition
A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition

Author: Gregorio del Olmo Lete

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13:

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The Dictionary lists all independent morphemes ("words"), attached morphemes ("affixes") and proper names in Ugaritic, a language written in alphabetic cuneiform on clay tablets. It is an indispensable reference work for research in comparative Semitic exicography, the Old Testament and North-West Semitic epigraphy.

Exchange Relationships at Ugarit
Exchange Relationships at Ugarit

Author: Kevin M. McGeough

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13:

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"This volume explores how economic agents in and around Ugarit operated in different exchange networks and how elite actors could gain power by operating across more than one network. By applying a Network-based model to both the textual and the archaeological data from the site of Ugarit, economic activities at the site are reconstructed in this volume"--

The Land of Hana
The Land of Hana

Author: Amanda H. Podany

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Hana was a Syrian kingdom located in the Middle Euphrates region north of Mari, which included the ancient city of Terqa. Hana is known only from a few dozen texts, but those texts are dated to the reigns of between nineteen and twenty-one kings. There is no king-list that includes the kings of Hana and the kingdom almost never is mentioned in documents from other cities and kingdoms. Nevertheless, Hana seems to have been one of the few kingdoms that thrived in the sixteenth century B.C.E., an era that is poorly understood. In this volume Dr. Prodany demonstrates how the kings of Hana can be placed in sequence and assigned approximate dates, based on typologies of the main features of a group of texts that make up the majority of the corpus - contracts for the purchase, bequest, and inheritance of real estate.