Notes to Chapter 26. Afterward

26.1 The Four Shores
26.2 The Cost of Solidarity
26.3 The Imprint of the Spirit
26.4 The Shapes of Fantasy

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26.1 The Four Shores

1. About Naram-Sin, see e.g. Liverani 2014 History, pp. 135-137.

   – [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]

2. For the Akkadian expression šarru kibrāt arbātu(m) or arba’i(m) / šarru kibrāt erbetti(m) or erbêm = Sumerian LUGAL UB.DA.LÍMMU(.BA), ‘king of the four edges/banks of the world’, see e.g. CAD 8 = K, pp. 331-336. Cf. supra 2.13.

   – [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]

3. For the etymology of the Greek term Mesopotamia, see supra 2.13.

   – [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]

4. For the Akkadian expression (mātu) kibrāt arbātu(m) or arba’i(m) / (mātu) kibrāt erbetti(m) or erbêm = Sumerian (KUR) UB.DA.LÍMMU(.BA), ‘(country of) the four edges/banks of the world’, see e.g. CAD 8 = K, pp. 331-336. Cf. supra 2.13.

   – [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]

5. On the political, social and cultural processes connected to the creation and the development of the empire of Akkad see Foster 2015 Agade

   – [ Stefania Ermidoro, November 2020]

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26.2 The Cost of Solidarity

1. On the development of human communities in Mesopotamia, from villages to towns and state, cf. supra 19.1 and 19.3.

   – [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]

2. On political institutions in Mesopotamia, see the first volume of the series Mesopotamia The Land of the Four River Banks, entitled At the Origins of Politics.

   – [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]

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26.3 The Imprint of the Spirit

1. On literary expression in Mesopotamia, see the second volume of the series Mesopotamia The Land of the Four River Banks, entitled Thought Enshrined in Clay.

   – [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]

2. The topic of ‘broken tradition’ is explained by G. Buccellati and A. Bezzera on CAR.

   – [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]

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26.4 The Shapes of Fantasy

1. On art and architecture in Mesopotamia, see the third volume of the series Mesopotamia The Land of the Four River Banks, entitled The Shapes of Phantasy.

   – [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]