Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- the_province_of_umma [2008/04/18 14:20] – dahl
+++ the_province_of_umma [2016/04/13 14:41] (current) – [Bibliography] lafont
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 ====== The Province of Umma ======
-The province of Umma is located northwest of the Lagash province and northeast of the Uruk province. During the Ur III period the province was centered almost exclusively at Umma[[the ur iii province of umma|Umma]], modern Tell Djoha. During the Presargonic period it is possible that the main center was Tell al-Agrib located to the southeast of Umma.
+The province of Umma is located northwest of the Lagash province and northeast of the Uruk province. During the Ur III period the province was centered almost exclusively at Umma, modern Tell Djokha ([[the ur iii province of umma|click here for a description of Umma during the Ur III period]]). During the Presargonic period it is possible that the main center was Tell al-Agrib located to the southeast of Umma.
+[[The Ur III province of Umma|The province of Umma during the Ur III period]]
+For descriptions of the different sites, see the following pages:
 [[sites:umma|Umma]]
@@ Line 14: / Line 18: @@
 [[sites:guedena_mushbiana|Gu(e)dena and Mushbiana]]
 [[sites:umma_other_sites|Other sites in the Umma province]]
-== KI.AN ==
-During the Ur III period the city of KI.AN was primarily known as an important cultic center of the chief Umma god, Shara.
-== Gu(e)dena and Mushbiana ==
-Gu(e)dena and Mushbiana are the names of two important agricultural districts in the province of Umma, there are no major setlements attested in the area.
-The district of Gu(e)dena is well known from the Old Sumerian Royal inscriptions from Lagash, describing the returning battles between Umma and Lagash over this fertile agricultural district.
-==== Garshana and other Rural Settlements in the Umma Province ====
 ==== Bibliography ====
-R. McC. Adams, [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2008/cdlj2008_001.html|"An Interdisciplinary Overview of a Mesopotamian City and its Hinterlands,"]] CDLJ 2008:1
+  * R. McC. Adams, [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2008/cdlj2008_001.html|"An Interdisciplinary Overview of a Mesopotamian City and its Hinterlands,"]] CDLJ 2008:1
+  * J. L. Dahl, "The Ruling Family of Ur III Umma: A Prosopographical Analysis of an Elite Family in Southern Iraq 4000 Years Ago. PIHANS 108. Leiden: 2007.
-J. L. Dahl, "The Ruling Family of Ur III Umma: A Prosopographical Analysis of an Elite Family in Southern Iraq 4000 Years Ago" ([[http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/staff/dahl/dissertation.pdf|Unpublished UCLA Dissertation 2003]]; to be published in PIHANS 2007).
+  * P. Steinkeller, "The Administration and Economic Organization of the Ur III State: The Core and the Periphery," in M. Gibson and R. D. Biggs, eds., The Organization of Power: Aspects of Bureaucracy in the Ancient Near East. SAOC 46 (1987), pp. 119-141.
+  * P. Steinkeller, “The Foresters of Umma: Toward a Definition of Ur III Labor”. In M. A. Powell, ed., Labor in the Ancient Near East. American Oriental Series, AOS 68. New Haven (1987), pp. 73-115.
+  * P. Steinkeller, "New Light on the Hydrology and Topography of Southern Babylonia in the Third Millennium," ZA 91 (2001), 22-84
-P. Steinkeller "The Administration and Economic Organization of the Ur III State: The Core and the Periphery," in M. Gibson and R. D. Biggs, eds., The Organization of Power: Aspects of Bureaucracy in the Ancient Near East. SAOC 46 (1987), pp. 119-141
+  * P. Steinkeller, "An Estimate of the Population of the City of Umma in Ur III Times" (forthcoming)
-_____________, "New Light on the Hydrology and Topography of Southern Babylonia in the Third Millennium," ZA 91 (2001), 22-84
+  * G. Van Driel, “The Size of Institutional Umma.” Archiv für Orientforschung 46-47, 1999-2000, p. 80-91.