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Author Rey, Sébastien, 1981- author.

Title For the gods of Girsu : city-state formation in ancient Sumer / Sébastien Rey
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Series Archaeopress archaeology
Archaeopress archaeology.
Contents Introduction: Concept of the Sumerian City-State; Chapter One: Once Upon a Time in Ancient Girsu. Or Tello and the Rediscovery of the Sumerians; Chapter Two: The City of the Heroic God. The General Layout of a Sumerian Metropolis; Chapter Three: The Girsu Countryside. The Spatial Organization of a Sumerian City-State; Chapter Four: Demarcated by the Gods. Sumerian Rites and the Lagaš-Umma Border Conflict; Conclusion: Morphogenesis of an Archaic City-State; Bibliography
Summary 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
Notes Previously issued in print: 2016
Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service
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Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 10, 2016)
Subject City-states -- Italy -- History -- To 1500
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iraq -- Girsu (Extinct city)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
City-states
Excavations (Archaeology)
SUBJECT Girsu (Extinct city) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85055027
Subject Iraq -- Girsu (Extinct city)
Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Archaeopress, publisher.
ISBN 1784913901
9781784913908