LEADER 06467oam 22007334a 450 001 9910457460803321 005 20211005110321.0 010 $a1-57506-650-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575066509 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051667 035 $a(OCoLC)759160110 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10495946 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535451 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11364425 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535451 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10539620 035 $a(PQKB)10235318 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155591 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155591 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10495946 035 $a(DE-B1597)584197 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575066509 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_80955 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051667 100 $a20110815d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Correspondence of the Kings of Ur$eAn Epistolary History of an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom /$fPiotr Michalowski 210 1$aWinona Lake, Ind :$cEisenbrauns,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011. 215 $a1 online resource (558 p.) 225 0 $aMesosopotamian civilizations ;$v15 225 0 $aMesopotamian civilizations ;$v15 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-57506-194-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword -- $tAbbreviations -- $tPart 1. The Royal Correspondence of the Ur III Kings in Literary and Historical Perspective -- $tChapter 1. Introduction -- $tChapter 2. Sumerian Literary Letters -- $tChapter 3. The Royal Letters in Their Literary Setting -- $tChapter 4. The Royal Letters in Their Historical Setting 1: The Affairs of King ?ulgi (Letters 1?12, 15?18) -- $tChapter 5. The Amorites in Ur III Times -- $tChapter 6. The Royal Letters in Their Historical Setting 2: Great Walls, Amorites, and Military History: The Puzur-?ulgi and ?arrum-bani Correspondence (Letters 13?14 and 19?20) -- $tChapter 7. The Royal Letters in Their Historical Setting 3: Ur, Isin, Kazallu, and the Final Decades of the Ur III State (Letters 21?24) -- $tChapter 8. Afterword -- $tAppendixes -- $tPart 2. The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur: Text Editions -- $tIntroduction to the Text Editions -- $t1. Aradmu to ?ulgi 1 (Ar?1, 3.1.1, A1, RCU 1) -- $t1a. Aradmu to ?ulgi 1a (Ar?1a) -- $t2. ?ulgi to Aradmu 1 (?Ar1, 3.1.2, RCU 2) -- $t3. Aradmu to ?ulgi 2 (Ar? 2, 3.1.3 + 3.1.11. A2a, RCU 3+4) -- $t4. Abaindasa to ?ulgi 1 (Ab?1, B1, SEpM1, 3.1.21) -- $t5. ?ulgi to Aradmu 2 (?Ar2, 3.1.13.1, RCU 8) -- $t6. ?ulgi to Aradmu 3 (?Ar3, 3.1.61, RCU 16) -- $t7. Aradmu to ?ulgi 3 (Ar?3, 3.1.5, SEpM1a, RCU 7) -- $t8. Aradmu to ?ulgi 4 (Ar?4) -- $t9. Aradmu to ?ulgi 5 (Ar?5, 3.1.6, RCU 6) -- $t10. Aradmu to ?ulgi 6 (Ar?6, 3.1.4, RCU 5) -- $t11. Ur-dun to ?ulgi 1 (Ud?1, 3.1.11.1, 14) -- $t12. Aradmu? to ?ulgi? 7 (Ar?7) -- $t13. Puzur-?ulgi to ?ulgi 1 (Pu?1, 3.1.7, RCU 11) -- $t14. ?ulgi to Puzur-?ulgi 1 (?Pu1, 3.1.08, 3.1.10, RCU 9, 10) -- $t15. ?ulgi to I?bi-Erra 1 (?I?1, 3.1.13.2, RCU 15) -- $t16. Amar-Sin to ?ulgi 1 (Am?1, 3.1.12) -- $t17. ?ulgi to Amar-Sin 1 (?Am1, 3.1.13, RCU 13) -- $t18. ?arrum-bani to ?u-Sin 1 (?a?u1, 3.1.15, RCU 17) -- $t19. ?u-Sin to ?arrum-bani 1 (?u?a1, 3.1.16, RCU 18) -- $t20. ?u-Sin to Lu-Nanna and ?arrum-bani 1 (?uLu?a1, 3.3.31) -- $t21. I?bi-Erra to Ibbi-Sin 1 (I?Ib1, 3.1.17, RCU 19) -- $t22. Ibbi-Sin to I?bi-Erra (IbI?1, 3.1.18, RCU 20) -- $t23. Puzur-Numu?da to Ibbi-Sin 1 (PuIb1, 3.1.19, A3, RCU 21) -- $t24. Ibbi-Sin to Puzur-Numu?da 1 (IbPu1, 3.1.20, RCU 22) -- $tBibliography -- $tList of Sumerian Literary Texts Cited -- $tList of CKU Tablets -- $tList of Joined Elements -- $tIndex of Passages Cited from Sumerian Literary Texts and Royal Inscriptions -- $tIndexes to the Text Editions 330 $aThe Correspondence of the Kings of Ur is a collection of literary letters between the Ur III monarchs and their high officials at the end of the third millennium B.C. The letters cover topics of royal authority and proper governance, defense of frontier regions, and the ultimate disintegration of the empire and represent the largest corpus of Sumerian prose literature we possess. This long-awaited edition, based on extensive collation of almost all extant manuscripts, numbering more than a hundred, includes detailed historical and literary analyses, and copious philological commentary. It entirely supersedes the Michalowski?s oft-cited unpublished Yale dissertation of 1976.The edition is accompanied by an extensive analysis of the place of the letters in early second-millennium schooling, treating the letters as literature, followed by chapters that contextualize the epistolary material within historical and historiographic contexts, utilizing many Sumerian archival, literary, and historical sources. The main objective here is to try to navigate the complex issues of authenticity, authority, and fiction that arise from the study of these literary artifacts. In addition, Michalowski offers new hypotheses about many aspects of late third-millennium history, including essays on military history and strategy, on frontiers, on the nature and putative character of nomadism at the time, as well as a long chapter on the role of a people designated as Amorites.The included DVD includes various photographs at high resolution of most of the tablets included in the study. 410 0$aMesopotamian civilizations ;$v15. 606 $aSumerian letters$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01138467 606 $aKings and rulers$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00987694 606 $aSumerian letters$xTranslations into English 607 $aIraq$zUr (Extinct city)$2fast 607 $aUr (Extinct city)$xKings and rulers 607 $aUr (Extinct city)$xHistory$xSources 608 $aTranslations. 608 $aSources. 608 $aHistory. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSumerian letters. 615 0$aKings and rulers. 615 0$aSumerian letters$xTranslations into English. 676 $a899/.956008 700 $aMichalowski$b Piotr$0637054 701 $aMichalowski$b Piotr$0637054 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457460803321 996 $aThe Correspondence of the Kings of Ur$92564711 997 $aUNINA