For the Gods of Girsu City-State Formation in Ancient Sumer / (Record no. 14314)

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control field 14314
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781784913908
Qualifying information (paperback).
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number DS70.G57,
Item number R49 2016
090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (RLIN)
Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) DS70.G57, R49 2016
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field Devinim
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Rey, Sebastien.
9 (RLIN) 36835
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title For the Gods of Girsu City-State Formation in Ancient Sumer /
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Archaeopress Publising ;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2016.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 76 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographic references.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1. Once Upon a Time in Ancient Girsu. Or Tello and the Rediscovery of the Sumerians -- 2. The City of the Heroic God. The General Layout of Sumerian Metropolis -- 3. The Girsu Contryside. The Spatial Organization of a Sumerian City-State -- 4. Demarcated by the Gods. Sumerian Rites and the Lagas-Umma Border Conflict.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. For the Gods are the opening words or incipit of the first inscribed votive artifacts dedicated to the principal deities of the Sumerian pantheon. They commemorate the construction or renovation of cities, temples, rural sanctuaries, border steles, in sum all the symbolically charged features of archaic states belonging thus metaphorically to supernatural tutelary overlords. Girsu (present-day Tello) is one of the earliest known cities of the world together with Uruk, Eridu, and Ur, and was considered to be in the 3rd Millennium the sanctuary of the Sumerian heroic god Ningirsu who fought with the demons of the Kur (Mountain) and thus made possible the introduction of irrigation and agriculture in Sumer. Girsu was the sacred metropolis and central pole of a city-state that lay in the Southeasternmost part of the Mesopotamian floodplain. The pioneering explorations carried out between 1877 and 1933 at Tello and the early decipherment of the Girsu cuneiform tablets were groundbreaking because they revealed the principal catalytic elements of the Sumerian takeoff - that is, a multiplicity and coalescence of major innovations, such as the appearance of a city- countryside continuum, the emergence of literacy, of bronze manufacture, and the development of monumental art and architecture. Because of the richness of information related in particular to the city's spatial organization and geographical setting, and thanks to the availability of recently declassified Cold War space imagery and especially the possibility to launch new explorations in Southern Iraq, Girsu stands out as a primary locale for reanalyzing through an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological and textual evidence the origins of the Sumerian city-state.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Excavations
General subdivision Archaeology
Geographic subdivision Iraq.
9 (RLIN) 36836
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Excavations
General subdivision Archaeology.
9 (RLIN) 36834
651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Girsu (Extinct city).
651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Iraq
Geographic subdivision Girsu (Extinct city).
9 (RLIN) 36838
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User-option data NIT Ana Koleksiyonu
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