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UNINA9910779923503321 |
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Autore |
Potts Daniel T. |
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Titolo |
The archaeology of Elam : formation and transformation of an ancient Iranian state / / D.T. Potts [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999 |
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1-107-11325-3 |
0-511-32330-1 |
0-511-17310-5 |
0-511-05355-X |
0-511-15207-8 |
0-521-56358-5 |
0-511-48961-7 |
1-280-42911-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxviii, 490 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge world archaeology |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Excavations (Archaeology) - Iran - Elam |
Elam Antiquities |
Elam History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Elam : what, when and where? -- Environment, climate and resources -- Elam and Awan -- The dynasty of Shimashki -- The grand regents of Susa and Elam -- The kingdom of Susa and Anshan -- The Neo-Elamite empire -- Elymais -- Elam under the Sasanians and beyond -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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From the middle of the 3rd millennium BC until the coming of Cyrus the Great, southwestern Iran was referred to in Mesopotamian sources as the land of Elam. A heterogeneous collection of regions, Elam was home to a variety of groups, alternately the object of Mesopotamian aggression, and aggressors themselves; an ethnic group seemingly swallowed up by the vast Achaemenid Persian empire, yet a force strong enough to attack Babylonia in the last centuries BC. The Elamite language is attested as late as the Medieval era, and the name Elam as |
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