Divine Cults in the Sacred Precinct of Girsu
Sumer in present-day southern Iraq is the heartland of the first cities and birthplace of writing (fig. 1). It is where, between 3500 and 2000 BCE, its inhabitants, the Sumerians, instituted the first codes of law, advanced metallurgy to craft new tools and weapons; enhanced wheel technology and inv...
| Published in: | Near Eastern archaeology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2021
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2021, Volume: 84, Issue: 2, Pages: 130-139 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girsu
/ Sumerians
/ Culture
/ City
/ Metallurgy
/ Weapon
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| RelBib Classification: | TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
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| Summary: | Sumer in present-day southern Iraq is the heartland of the first cities and birthplace of writing (fig. 1). It is where, between 3500 and 2000 BCE, its inhabitants, the Sumerians, instituted the first codes of law, advanced metallurgy to craft new tools and weapons; enhanced wheel technology and invented the potter’s wheel. The Sumerians organized long-distance trade over land and sea; they carved monumental sculptures and wrote poems, epic myths, and musical hymns (Jacobsen 1987; Bottéro and Kramer 1989). They created irrigation canal networks and built bridges, temples, and stepped towers “reaching the heavens,” their time-honored ziggurats (George 1993). It is the sum of these innovations that characterizes Sumer as one of the first civilizations of the ancient world., Sumerian city-states of southern Iraq in the third millennium BCE. Sébastien Rey ©Tello/Girsu Project, Iraq Scheme, British Museum., |
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| ISSN: | 2325-5404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/714121 |