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What informations on the organization and administration ofthe city do they offer?In order to stress the pecularity of the SIS 8-4 seals, let us have aquick look at the earlier and the later glyptic motifs and styles. Letme begin with pointing out some of the chief iconographic themesof the glyptic art confined to the Late Uruk period. The main themesof the usually large seals in a (mostly) well modelled style are1) the Mann im Netzrock, possibly the king,2) victims of military actions, domineered by this verypersonage,3) facades of monumental buildings,4) files of persons walking,5) files of animals walking.In addition to these narrative compositions, where the figuresbehave in a relatively natural way, there exist completely differentcompositions involving heraldically, symmetrically disposed animalsor composite creatures on their hindlegs.Another group of clearly contemporary seals, which were formerlyunderstood as posterior crude seals of the Jemdet Nasr period,differ in style (mechanically executed with drill and cutting wheel),size of the cylinder (small, squat seals) and the themes depicted,before all the "pigtailed women". They are named here the LateUruk "simple seals".As against this, later seals of ED II-III date depict mainly (except forbanquet scenes and few other motifs) animals in an upright positionon their hind legs, artificially arranged and forming continuousbands ("Figurenband"), while stylistically there is (at least in somesites) a certain development from elongated and narrow figures tothose with a marked complexity of forms which tend to besomewhat swollen and have more bodily character (Körperlichkeit).It can thus be observed that a complete break opens between LateUruk and ED II seal iconography in terms of the depiction ofhumans and animals. In between these two units, at least someexamples of seals datable to ED I-II are known from such sites asNippur, Fara or Kiš. Specific features displayed by this ED I-II"interim phase" are20
1) animals walking on its four legs, with only the attackinglions on their hind legs (in cases),2) depictions of a male person wearing a flat cap and a kiltreaching down to the ankles, the front part gathered in frontand tucked up behind the girdle.In fact, such depictions have little in common with Late Urukimagery either, concerning the motifs and the style, the figuresbeing clumsy and squat and the field crowded with secondary (or"filling") motifs.The above described differences – animals in a relatively "natural"position or upright on their hind legs, the type of hero and the style– led Dominique Collon (1987) to replace the quite sophisticatedearlier divisions of the ED glyptic periods by a simpler division intotwo broadly conceived phases, ED A (= ED I-II) and ED II (= ED II-III).Let us return to the Late Uruk "simple seals", differing from thehigh-standard products by their cruder execution, displaying mostlythe motifs of the "pigtailed women" and various animals andgeometric motifs. The reasons for this difference have been soughtin various factors:1) the traditional explanation seeing in them chronologicallylater products belonging to the Jemdet Nasr age has beendisproved, as it transpired that these run parallel to thehigh-standard quality seals in time;2) the idea that these might have been collective seals asagainst the high-standard individual seals has also beenrefuted, because the seal impressions from variousadministrative units at Uruk-Eanna (Boehmer 1999) speaksagainst this explanations.Another explanation could be that the difference lies in the regionaldiffusion of these seal types: the simple seals turn up in northernMesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia and the Zagros range while highstandardseals constitute a mark of southern Mesopotamia.In our reasoning about the stylistic transformations of sealiconography and imagery, a crucial role obviously falls to the site ofJemdet Nasr. The Langdon expedition of 1926 and 1928 hasuncovered remains of a substantial building on mound B of which itis now believed that it was once a palace. Interestingly, the seals21
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Page 7 and 8: ContentsPreface ...................
Page 10 and 11: from October 5 th to October 7 th ,
Page 13: The third millennium
Page 17 and 18: IntroductionArchaeological data con
Page 19: etween SIS 6 and 5 which comprise t
Page 24 and 25: and seal impressions found therein
Page 26 and 27: oriented towards a treelike element
Page 28 and 29: for rolling its surface on the clay
Page 30 and 31: Matthews, Donald M. (1997):The earl
Page 33 and 34: The city and the palace at archaic
Page 35 and 36: sanctuary and saŋŋa a priest. Cha
Page 37 and 38: Ur, the shipments of goods marked b
Page 39: Otto: However, in later periods of
Page 42 and 43: On the other hand, Richard Zettler,
Page 44 and 45: UE III : 43,found in SIS 7UE III: 4
Page 46 and 47: UE III: 105(ms)UE III: 134UE III: 1
Page 48 and 49: dignitary?)UE III: 442 "lock" 0 dig
Page 50 and 51: UE III: 91 (ms)"lock" onwattle wall
Page 52 and 53: een sealed(RA); KISALMatthews1993,
Page 54 and 55: UE III: 412 ?? 0 GU, 84 Larsa,AB?,
Page 56 and 57: (SIS 4)rosetteMatthews1993, No. 40(
Page 58 and 59: UE III: 142 container (pot) 0 GADA(
Page 60 and 61: coveringUE III: 464reed mattingpack
Page 62 and 63: UE III: 257container(storage jar)0
Page 64 and 65: UE III: 437?reed fastening counterm
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Page 70 and 71: Charvát, Petr (2006):"Hail, Thou s
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Rosengarten, Yvonne (1960):Le conce
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ZATU:Hans-Jörg Nissen, Margaret Gr
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Naram-Sin’s deificationPavel Krá
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(made) the god of their city, and t
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Empire”. 152 Since the patron dei
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could help us to better understand
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above, at Tell Brak were found bric
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we consider the fact that somebody
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DiscussionSallaberger: How do we, i
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Despite all the references to Šulg
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of the state, especially to the god
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3) Šulgi F (HS 1411 = TMH NF 4 11,
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Therefore, I agree with Klein that
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There are also other, though more a
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39 called you by the name: ‘Youth
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Nippur and Ur on a single day (Š6/
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meant to mark the shift of Šulgi
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Flückiger-Hawker, Esther (1999):Ur
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Römer, Willem H. Ph. (1969):"Köni
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The second millennium
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period by the historians, which com
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His study The Economic Role of the
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"Zudem wurden die babylonischen St
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supported by the neighboring cities
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available. 255 The numbers of texts
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abi and inherited by his son Samsu-
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ReferencesEdzard, Dietz Otto (2004)
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Sallaberger: Could the military und
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A. The iconographyAs is customary o
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seated%121086seated%420Sli Sa AS Sm
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60504030mace%smiting%20100Sli Sa AS
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Which can be expressed in the follo
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The fifth of the first sangas, Annu
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V. Annum-pī-Aja Aja Sm-Ḫa 18Ḫa
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7. Sîn-bani ḪammurabiḪa 30 - 3
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Pientka, R. (1998):Die Spätaltbaby
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Esarhaddon’s accession to the Ass
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FatherBut the most important person
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this solution was considered to be
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circumstances that made Sennacherib
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ecame an official queen neither she
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which is addressed to the wife of f
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mangu was certainly the skin diseas
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scenario is that the king realized
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guarding some temple. 400 Neverthel
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crossed Tigris, on 8 th Addaru he v
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members of a few prominent families
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The appointment of the crown prince
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prince, and, shortly after the deat
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Baker, H. D. (ed.) (2001):The Proso
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Lukko, M.; Buylaere, G. Van (2002):
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SAA Online: (29 th September2010)Sa
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Fig. 1: Assyrian relief from Nineve
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periods constituted the target of o
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Fig. 2: Archaeological map of Arbil
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Nováček: In fact, they could take
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Arda-Mullissi (or Urdu-Mullissu,Ura
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door peg 41; 45; 46; 48; 49; 51;53;
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Išbi-Erra 120Isin 64; 90; 102; 120
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Nineveh 22; 149; 150; 153; 156;159;
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storage 23; 36; 39; 42; 43; 47;54;
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BibliographyAlberti Amedeo, Pomponi
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Borger, R.; Hinz, W.; Römer, W. H,
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Dahl, Jacob (2006):Revisiting B a l
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Frayne, D. (1993):Sargonic and Guti
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Hunger, H. (1992):Astrological Repo
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LAK: Anton Deimel:Die Inschriften v
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Melville, S. C. (1999):The Role of
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Parpola, S., Watanabe, K. (1988):Ne
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Rosengarten, Yvonne (1960):Le conce
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Starr, I. (1990):Queries to the Sun
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UE III:Leon Legrain: Ur Excavations
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Woods, Christopher (2005a):On the E
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BEThe Babylonian Expedition of the
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LAS IParpola, S., Letters from Assy
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SAOCStudies in Ancient Oriental Civ
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