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The Royal Tombs of Ur, dating from approximately 3000–2700 BCE, are among the most famous and impressive archeological discoveries of the twentieth century. Excavated between 1922 and 1934 under the direction of Leonard Woolley, this site is one of the richest sources of information we have about ancient Sumer—however, many mysteries about the society that produced these tombs remain. Based on primary research with the Ur materials at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, and paying particular attention to the iconography found in what Woolley referred to as the "Seal Impression Strata of Ur," this book works to reconstruct the early history of Sumer. What was this society like? What social structures did this society build? What were its institutions of authority? The answers Petr Charvát proposes are of interest not only to archeologists, but to anyone fascinated by early human history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- I. Archaeology: light out of the shadows of past ages?
- II. Inscribed seals from archaic UR
- III. The city of Ur at the beginning of the third millennium: images and signs, words and notions in seals
- IV. The city of Ur at the beginning of the third millennium: summary of written and archaeological evidence
- V. Conclusions
- References cited
- Concordance of excavation numbers of objects included in the text of this book
- Concordance of museum numbers of objects included in the text of this book
- Cuneiform texts cited herewith
- Sumerian signs and names
- Akkadian words and phrases
- Eblaite phrases
- Hurrian words
- Register of Anepigraphic Seals Published in UE III and Referred to in this Book
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