LEADER 06058nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910973445703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781575066509 010 $a1575066505 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(Au-PeEL)EBL3155591 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10495946 035 $a(DE-B1597)584197 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575066509 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_80955 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155591 035 $a(Perlego)2058590 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051667 100 $a20110426d2011 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 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWinona Lake, IN $cEisenbrauns$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (558 p.) 225 1 $aMesopotamian civilizations ;$v15 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781575061948 311 08$a1575061945 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 $aSumerian letters$vTranslations into English 607 $aUr (Extinct city)$xHistory$vSources 607 $aUr (Extinct city)$xKings and rulers 615 0$aSumerian letters 676 $a899/.956008 700 $aMichalowski$b Piotr$f1948-$01214889 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973445703321 996 $aThe correspondence of the kings of Ur$94361137 997 $aUNINA