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Similar research programs:
- 1 - Catalogue, publication, and analysis of the Neo-Sumerian administrative tablets from Girsu and Umma, belonging to the collections of the British Museum.
- 2 - Prosopography and Anthroponomy of the Cuneiform Documents from Ebla (24th Century B.C.) An On-line Documentation
- 3 - Epigraphic and literary monuments belonging to medieval Iran, Central Asia and India: philology and lexicography.
- 4 - Beyond equality: Communal space and the individual dimension in Mediterranean Prehistory
- 5 - Integrated approach to the identification of problematic taxa of the marine meiofauna: drafting of volumes of the series "Fauna d'Italia" and development and evaluation of methods of DNA-barcoding in Gastrotrichs, Proseriates and Rotifers
- 6 - The Third Greece and the West
- 7 - Democratic accountability, e-government, policy evaluation
- 8 - The birth of the European individual: the subject of infividuality as a philosophical problem
- 9 - New method for the analysis of biodiversity: application of pyrosequencing to the study of soil organisms
- 10 - Along the aroma and spice routes. The port of Sumhuram and the trade between the Mediterranean, Arabia and India in preislamic times in the light of recent archaeological, historical-literary, palaeo-environmental and archaeometric data.
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Geographical classification
- Region: Sicilia
Bibliografia
F. D’Agostino, F. Pomponio, Umma Messenger Texts in the British Museum, Part One (UMTBM 1), Messina 2002;F. D'Agostino - F. Pomponio, Due bilanci di entrate e di uscite di argento da Umma, Zeitschrift fuer Assyriologie 95 (2005), pp.172-207;
B. Lafont, Documents Administratifs Sumériens (= DAS), Paris 1985;
P. Mander, An Archive of Kennelmen and Other Workers in Ur III Lagash, Supplemento 80 Annali dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale (Napoli) 54 (1994);
P. Mander, A Minor Archive of Ur III Lagash for the Provisions of the Governor, Aula Orientalis 16 (1998), pp. 193-247;
K. Maekawa, Confiscation of Private Properties in the Ur III Period: A Study of é-dul-la and nig-GA, ASJ 18 (1996), pp.103-168;
M.E. Milone - G. Spada - M. Capitani, Umma Messenger Texts in the British Museum, Part Two (UMTBM 2) Girsu Messenger Texts in the British Museum (=Nisaba 3), Messina 2003;
T.M. Sharlach, Provincial Taxation and the Ur III State, Cuneiform Monographs 26, Leiden-Boston 2004
M. Sigrist - M.M. Figulla - C.B.F. Walker, Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum – Volume II, London 1996;
P. Steinkeller, Money-Lending Practices in Ur III Babylonia: the Issue of Economic Motivation, in M. Hudson - M. Van De Mieroop, edd., Debt and Economic Renewal in the Ancient MNear East, Bethesda 2003;
P. Steinkeller, The Function of Written Documentation in the Administrative Praxis of Early Babylonia, in M. Hudson - C. Wunsch edd., Creating Economic Order, Bethesda 2004, pp.65-88.
A. Westenholz - W. Sallaberger, Mesopotamien, Akkade-Zeit und Ur III-Zeit, Gottingen 1999, pp.119ss.
Keywords
NEO-SUMERIAN, ADMINISTRATIVE TABLETS, BRITISH MUSEUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, YALE UNIVERSITY, MUSEUM OF ALEPPO, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SULEIMANIYA, MUSE-YE MILLI IRAN-E BASTAN, TEHERANCatalogue and publication of Neo-Sumerian tablets kept in the British Museum and in other collections of the United Kingdom, the USA, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
Università degli Studi di MessinaAbstract
A series of agreements have been stated between the students in charge of the research units of Messina, Napoli, and Roma and the Trustees of some of the most important Museums which keep collections of Neo-Sumerian administrative tablets. The aim of the present project of research is to put at disposal of the students of Assyriology and History of the Ancient Near East the unpublished material in question, amounting to some thousands of documents, through the successive phases of the catalogue, the publication, and the analysis of the texts.Principal Investigator
Francesco Vincenzo Pomponio Università degli Studi di MESSINAResearch Objectives
The aim of the project is twofold:1) to draw up the catalogue, to photograph and to edit the unpublished Neo-Sumerian tablets from the provincial capitals of Umma and Girsu, belonging to the collections of the British Museum and of other museums of the United Kingdom, of the USA (Harvard and Yale Universities), Syria (Museum of Aleppo), Iraq (National Museum of Suleimaniya) and Iran (Muse-ye Milli Iran-e bastan);
2) to publish a study on two among the most significant categories of Neo-Sumerian documents, the "messenger texts" and the loan contracts še-ur5-ra.
Timescale
24 monthsNational and international background
Umma and Girsu, distant from each other only thirty kilometres, represent two of the many small states in the varied political panorama of Southern Mesopotamia in the Early Dynastic period. Their historical vicissitudes are indissolubly bound for many generations: at first, because they seem to have belonged to the so-called Šuruppak Hexapolis; successively, on account of the boundary conflict which opposed them and drained their resources for more than a century (this is the first of the human wars whose events are historically known). During the following Sargonic period, the two small states were absorbed by the empire of Sargon and, after an initial phase in which the ruler of Lagaš perhaps collaborated with the occupants, they both allied with the other Sumerian cities in an obstinate, however unsuccessful, struggle for independence. The following occupation by the highland Gutians was probably suffered more profoundly by Umma than by Girsu.Eventually, even though the occupation of Umma had occurred earlier, both states became provinces of the empire of Ur III, and two of the richest ones of this state. Their secession, occurred almost in the same year for reasons yet to be clarified (though we can feasibly argue the destruction for both cities and a decisive one for Umma), must have represented a heavy stroke for the economy of Ur, a severe loss, in particular, for the food resources of the empire, bringing about the same destructive effects as the Amorite >>>
