Review of a monograph containing 337 texts, mainly from the Sargonic period, and written in Sumerian and Akkadian. The reviewed volume represents a cooperation between the Real Academia in Madrid and ...the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Iraq, and offers treatments and depictions of cuneiform tablets originally belonging in various archival contexts in the urban centre of Adab or nearby localities, along with a discussion of the history of Assyriological research into this area.
Review of a volume collecting papers presented at the conference "Who was king? Who was not king? The rulers and the ruled in the Ancient Near East", Prague, Apr 14-16, 2010.
Illustrations: Illuminations
Title from cover.
Imprint varies.
Vols. 35-44 called also n.F. Bd. 1-10.
Issued by: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 1921-1938.
Vols. 1 (1886)-34 (1922). (Suppl. to ...v. 38; includes index to Zeitschrift für Keilschriftforschung und verwandte Gebiete). 1 v.; v. 35 (1923)-44 (1938) in v. 44.
Review of a monograph comprising a reworked doctoral dissertation. The volume under review attempts to present a synthesis of evidence of several decades of primarily French excavations in southern ...Iraq in the major centres of the Sumerian city-state of Lagaš; one of the historically best attested and most important Sumerian states.
Title from cover.
Editor: C. Bezold (with F. Hommel, 1884).
Vol. 1-2, 1884-85. (Included in index to Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebeite, Bd. 1-34, 1886-1922).
