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From the 21st Century B.C. to the 21st Century A.D. - Proceedings of the International Conference on Neo-Sumerian Studies Held in Madrid, 22-24 July 2010 (Hardcover)
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From the 21st Century B.C. to the 21st Century A.D. - Proceedings of the International Conference on Neo-Sumerian Studies Held in Madrid, 22-24 July 2010 (Hardcover)
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This volume collects the proceedings of a three-day conference held
in Madrid in July 2010, and it highlights the vitality of the study
of late-third-millennium B.C. Mesopotamia. Workshops devoted to the
Ur III period have been a feature of the Rencontre Assyriologique
Internationale roughly every other year, beginning in London in
2003. In 2009, Steve Garfinkle and Manuel Molina asked the
community of Neo-Sumerian scholars to convene the following year in
Madrid before the Rencontre in Barcelona. The meeting had more than
50 participants and included 8 topical sessions and 27 papers. The
21 contributions included in this volume cover a broad range of
topics: new texts, new interpretations, and new understandings of
the language, culture, and history of the Ur III period (2112-2004
B.C.). The present and future of Neo-Sumerian studies are important
not only for the field of Assyriology but also for wider inquiries
into the ancient world. The extant archives offer insight into some
of the earliest cities and one of the earliest kingdoms in the
historical record. The era of the Third Dynasty of Ur is also
probably the best-attested century in antiquity. This imposes a
responsibility on the small community of scholars who work on the
Neo-Sumerian materials to make this it accessible to a broad,
interdisciplinary audience in the humanities and related fields.
This volume is a solid step in this direction.
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