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020			_a9781784913908 _q(paperback).
041			_aeng
050			_aDS70.G57, _bR49 2016
090			_aDS70.G57, R49 2016
100			_aRey, Sebastien. _936835
245			_aFor the Gods of Girsu City-State Formation in Ancient Sumer /
260			_aOxford : _bArchaeopress Publising ; _c2016.
300			_a76 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographic references.
505			_a1. 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			_aFor 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			_aExcavations _xArchaeology _zIraq. _936836
650			_aExcavations _xArchaeology. _936834
651			_aGirsu (Extinct city).
651			_aIraq _zGirsu (Extinct city). _936838
910			_aNIT Ana Koleksiyonu
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