| Description |
1 online resource (322 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: I. Archaeology: light out of the shadows of past ages? -- Woolley's Pit F and the SIS -- Woolley's Jamdat Nasr Cemetery (JNC) and the SIS -- So what? -- II. Inscribed seals from archaic Ur -- III. city of Ur at the beginning of the third millennium: images and signs, words and notions in seals -- Archaica -- Amor -- Banquet scenes -- Dance scenes -- Birthing scenes -- Coitus scenes -- Amor: Emblems -- Labor -- Herding -- Combat -- Humans at work -- Honor -- Honour to gods -- Honour to communities -- Honour to princes -- Dolor -- Waters of death? -- Hic Sunt Leones -- Voices and images of the past: Signs of proto-cuneiform writing within seal iconography of archaic Ur -- UR2 -- Din -- Kak -- As time goes by: archaic Ur seal imagery within the development of Sumerian glyptic, c. 3500-2200 B.C. -- ancestral experience: Late Uruk -- Jemdet Nasr glyptic -- inheritors of archaic Ur: later third-millenium Sumerian glyptic -- IV. city of Ur at the beginning of the third millennium: summary of written and archaeological evidence -- city of Ur in the incipient third millennium -- Subsistence -- Technology -- Trade, change, innovation -- Society -- Management -- Metaphysics -- 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-301) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Silence.
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HISTORY -- Civilization.
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Silence
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9788024631349 |
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8024631342 |
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