Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-gb8f7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-29T15:30:06.758Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Imperial Catastrophe or Local Incident? An Akkadian Hoard from Tell Brak, Syria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Roger Matthews
Roger Matthews
Affiliation:
McDonald Institute for Archaeological ResearchUniversity of CambridgeDowning Street Cambridge CB2 3ER
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Shorter Notes
Information
Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , October 1994 , pp. 290 - 302
Copyright
Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1994

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Algaze, G., 1993. The Uruk World System. The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Black, J. & Green, A., 1992. Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia. London: British Museum Press.Google Scholar
Bradley, R., 1990. The Passage of Arms. An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Delougaz, P., 1952. Pottery from the Diyala Region. (Oriental Institute Publications 63.) Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Delougaz, P., Hill, H. & Lloyd, S., 1967. Private Houses and Graves in the Diyala Region. (Oriental Institute Publications 88.) Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Foster, B.R., 1993. Management and administration in the Sargonic period, in Akkad. The First World Empire, ed. Liverani, M.. (History of the Ancient Near East/Studies 5.) Padua: Sargon srl, 25–39.Google Scholar
Frankfort, H., 1934. Iraq Excavations of the Oriental Institute 1932/33. Third Preliminary Report of the Iraq Expedition. (Oriental Institute Communications 17.) Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Gibson, McG., 1982. A re-evaluation of the Akkad period in the Diyala region on the basis of recent excavations at Nippur and in the Hamrin. American Journal of Archaeology 86, 531–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hall, H.R. & Woolley, C.L., 1927. Al-'Ubaid. (Ur Excavations 1.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Mallowan, M.E.L., 1947. Excavations at Brak and Chagar Bazar. Iraq 9, 1–259.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Matthews, D., 1991. Tell Brak 1990: the glyptic. Iraq 53, 147–57.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Matthews, R.J., 1993. Cities, Seals and Writing: Archaic Seal Impressions from Jemdet Nasr and Ur. (Materialien zu den friihen Schriftzeugnissen des Vorderen Orients 2.) Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag.Google Scholar
Matthews, R.J., Matthews, W. & McDonald, H., forthcoming. Excavations at Tell Brak, 1994. Iraq 56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Michalowski, P., 1978. The Neo-Sumerian silver ring texts. Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 2(3), 1–16.Google Scholar
Michalowski, P., 1993. Memory and deed: the historiography of the political expansion of the Akkad state, in Akkad. The First World Empire, ed. Liverani, M.. (History of the Ancient Near East/Studies 5.) Padua: Sargon srl, 69–90.Google Scholar
Moortgat, A. & Moortgat-Correns, U., 1974. Archäologische Bemerkungen zu einem Schatzfund im vorsargonischen Palast in Mari. Iraq 36, 155–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Oates, D. & Oates, J., 1993. Excavations at Tell Brak 1992–93. Iraq 55, 155–99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Parrot, A., 1948. Tello. Vingt Campagnes de Fouilles (1877–1933). Paris: Albin Michel.Google Scholar
Parrot, A., 1956. Le Temple d'Ishtar. (Mission Archeologique de Mari 1.) Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner.Google Scholar
Parrot, A., 1965. Les fouilles de Mari. Quinzième campagne (Printemps 1965). Syria 42, 197–225.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Parrot, A., 1968. Le ‘Tresor’ d'Ur. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner.Google Scholar
Pittman, H., 1994. The Glazed Steatite Glyptic Style. (Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient 16.) Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.Google Scholar
Postgate, J.N. & Moorey, P.R.S., 1976. Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1975. Iraq 38, 133–69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Powell, M. A., 1978. A contribution to the history of money in Mesopotamia prior to the invention of coinage, in Festschrift Lubor Matouš, eds. Hruška, B. & Komoróczy, G.. Budapest: Az Eötvös Loránd, 211–43.Google Scholar
Reade, J., 1968. Tell Taya (1967): summary report. Iraq 30, 234–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reade, J., 1973. Tell Taya (1972–73): summary report. Iraq 35, 155–87.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Steinkeller, P., 1993. Early political development in Mesopotamia and the origins of the Sargonic empire, in Akkad. The First World Empire, ed. Liverani, M.. (History of the Ancient Near East/Studies 5.) Padua: Sargon srl, 107–29.Google Scholar
Weiss, H. & Courty, M.-A., 1993. The genesis and collapse of the Akkadian empire: the accidental refraction of historical law, in Akkad. The First World Empire, ed. Liverani, M.. (History of the Ancient Near East/Studies 5.) Padua: Sargon srl, 131–55.Google Scholar
Weiss, H., Courty, M.-A., Wetterstrom, W., Guichard, F., Meadow, R., Senior, L. & Curnow, A., 1993. The genesis and collapse of third millennium north Mesopotamian civilization. Science 261, 995–1004.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Woolley, C.L., 1934. The Royal Cemetery. (Ur Excavations 2.) London: The British Museum.Google Scholar