Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE : : Proceedings of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Philadelphia, July 11–15, 2016 / / ed. by Joshua Jeffers, Holly Pittman, Grant Frame.

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• MitwirkendeR: Alarcon, Tessa de,; Amrhein, Anastasia,; Battini, Laura,; Beaulieu, Paul-Alain,; Bodi, Daniel,; Charles, Michael,; Charpin, Dominique,; Charvát, Petr,; Ch’ng, Eugene,; Collins, Tim,; Culbertson, Laura,; De Graef, Katrien,; Fincke, Jeanette C.,; Frame, Grant,; Fátima Rosa, Maria de,; Galway, Elizabeth A.,; Garfinkle, Steven J.,; Gehlken, Erlend,; Gomes de Almeida, Isabel,; Grunert, Nicole,; Hanes, Laurence,; Hauptmann, Andreas,; Hearne, James,; Hernandez-Munoz, Luis,; Jansen, Moritz,; Kaercher, Kyra,; Klein, Sabine,; Lewis, Andrew,; Liu, Yudong,; McGeough, Kevin M.,; Möllenbeck, Christin,; Paladre, Clélia,; Popova, Olga V.,; Rothman, Mitchell S.,; Scott, Sarah J.,; Scurlock, JoAnn,; Seabrook, Melina,; Sharlach, Tonia M.,; Stein, Diana L.,; Stone, Elizabeth C.,; Tavernier, Jan,; Taylor, Jonathan,; Twiss, Katheryn,; Wisnom, Selena,; Woolley, Sandra,; Zettler, Richard L.,; Zimansky, Paul,
• HerausgeberIn: Frame, Grant,; Jeffers, Joshua,; Pittman, Holly,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale ; 62
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (568 p.) :; 158 illustrations

The city of Ur—now modern Tell el-Muqayyar in southern Iraq, also called Ur of the Chaldees in the Bible—was one of the most important Sumerian cities in Mesopotamia during the Early Dynastic Period in the first half of the third millennium BCE. The city is known for its impressive wealth and artistic achievements, evidenced by the richly decorated objects found in the so-called Royal Cemetery, which was excavated by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania from 1922 until 1934. Ur was also the cult center of the moon god, and during the twenty-first century BCE, it was the capital of southern Mesopotamia.With contributions from both established and rising Assyriologists from ten countries and edited by three leading scholars of Assyriology, this volume presents thirty-two essays based on papers delivered at the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held in Philadelphia in 2016. Reflecting on the theme “Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE,” the chapters deal with archaeological, artistic, cultural, economic, historical, and textual matters connected to the ancient city of Ur. Three of the chapters are based on plenary lectures by senior scholars Richard Zettler, Jonathan Taylor, and Katrien De Graef. The remainder of the essays, arranged alphabetically by author, highlight innovative new directions for research and represent a diverse array of topics related to Ur in various periods of Mesopotamian history. Tightly focused in theme, yet broad in scope, this collection will be of interest to Assyriologists and archaeologists working on Iraq.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Program -- Welcome to Participants of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale -- Plenary Papers -- Woolley’s Excavations at Ur: New Perspectives from Artifact Inventories, Field Records, and Archival Documentation -- Sîn-City: New Light from Old Excavations at Ur -- Bad Moon Rising: The Changing Fortunes of Early Second-Millennium BCE Ur -- Conference Papers -- The Moon Watching Over the Sun and Venus: Revisiting the Attributes and Functions of Nanna/Sîn in Mesopotamia -- Detecting Social Tensions in the Archaeological Record: Official and Vernacular Figurine-Making Traditions at Ur in the First Millennium BCE -- Old Babylonian Terracottas from Ur: Ancient and New Perspectives -- The City of Ur and the Neo-Babylonian Empire -- The Ziqqurats of Ur and Babylon and the Place Where the Ark Moors After the Flood (The Epic of Gilgameš XI 158) -- Epigraphy of Ur: Past, Present, and Future -- Signs from Silence: Ur of the First Sumerians (Late Uruk Through ED I) -- Breakers and Enforcers of the Oath of the King -- Utopic and Dystopic Images in Mesopotamian Literature: The Conflict Between Order and Chaos in Ur III -- In Search of Ur in iqqur īpuš -- The Kingdom as Sheepfold: Frontier Strategy Under the Third Dynasty of Ur; A View from the Center -- From Uruk to Ur: Automated Matching of Virtual Tablet Fragments -- The City of Ur: The Possibilities for Statistical Analysis on the Use of Space in Domestic Households -- Trace Elements and Isotopes: The Origin of Gold from Ur from a Geochemical Point of View -- Science and Technology: Using Ur-Online to Aid in Scientific Analysis -- Towards Archival Reconstruction of Ur III Cuneiform Tablets -- Excavating Ur in Children’s Literature -- Aspekte der Sklaverei im altbabylonischen Ur: Untersuchungen zu den a-ru-a-Texten -- Glyptic Art from the Ur III to the Šimaški Periods: Heritage and Overtaking of the Models -- The Status of Real Estate in Neo-Babylonian Ur: The Case of the Gallābu Family -- Palace and “Private” Sectors in Old Babylonian Ur -- Materiality and Mark-Making: Sealing and Community in Early Dynastic Ur -- Eclipse of a King: A New Interpretation of the Bull-Headed Lyre -- Local and Imported Religion at Ur Late in the Reign of Shulgi -- The Third Millennium Banquet Scene at Ur and Its Archaeological Correlates -- New Excavations at Ur -- Ur and Other Cities in Some Sumerian and Akkadian Personal Names: The Pre-Sargonic and Sargonic Periods -- Implications of Intertextuality: Erra and Išum and the Lamentation Over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur -- Was the Karzida of Ur’s Akītu Festival at Tell Sakhariya?