The Sumerian world / edited by Harriet Crawford. - xxiv, 659 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. - Routledge worlds . - Routledge worlds .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Archaeology of the Sumerian home : reconstructing Sumerian daily life / Paul Collins -- Women and agency : a survey from late Uruk to the end of Ur III / Julia M. Ascher-Greve -- A note on Sumerian fashion / Lamia al Gailani -- Sumerian industries and their makers : crafting textiles / Rita P. Wright -- Death and burial / Helga Vogel -- Sumerian mythology / Benjamin R. Foster -- Trade in the Sumerian world / Harriet Crawford -- North Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BC / Augusta McMahon -- Cultural developments in western Syria and the Middle Euphrates Valley during the Sumer, Akkad, Ebla and Anatolia / Christoph Bachhuber -- The kindgom of Mari / Jean-Claude Margueron -- Ebla / Frances Pinnock -- Iran and its neighbours / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -- The Sumerians and the Gulf / Robert Carter -- Mesopotamia, Meluhha, and those in between / Christopher P. Thornton -- Egypt and Mesopotamia / Alice Stevenson -- The Mesopotamian marshlands, a personal recollection / Azzam Alwash.

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Sumerians


Iraq--Civilization--To 634

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