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Mesopotamian Politics

Notes

Notes to Chapter 12. A Premature Experiment

April 2024

General notes on Chapter 12
12.1 The Historical Development
12.2 The Legacy
12.3 Structural Fragility
12.4 The Retaliation of the Frontier
12.5 The Illusion of the Ecumene
12.6 Climatic Changes

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General notes on Chapter 12

  1. For an insightful overview on the Akkadian ‘empire’, see e.g. Foster 2015 Agade.

    – [ Marco De Pietri, May 2024]

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12.3 Structural Fragility

  1. On structural problems, see e.g. Liverani, Ant.Or. 8/4, p. 157.

    – [ Giorgio Buccellati, July 2020]

  2. On the ‘top-down’ vs. ‘bottom-up’ approaches, see e.g. Palmer &al 1981 Canonical.

    – [ Marco De Pietri, April 2024]

  3. On Tar’am-Agade, daughter of Naram-Sin married to a king of Urkesh, see sealing AFc1 (for a complete bibliography, see the “Urkesh electronic Library”).

    – [ Marco De Pietri, April 2024]

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12.4 The Retaliation of the Frontier

  1. Interestingly, Utu-hegal, in the text of a tablet from Uruk (Louvre, AO 6018; see also the text in RIME 2.13.06.04) still retains the title ‘king of the four boundaries/regions of the world’, i.e. “lugal an-ub-da limmu5-ba” (for which cf. Section 10.6).

    – [ Marco De Pietri, April 2024]

  2. About the defeat of the Gutians by Utu-hegal, see e.g. Thureau- Dangin 1912 Fin.

    – [ Marco De Pietri, April 2024]

  3. For the description of the Gutians as a ‘viper/snake’ (on a tablet from Uruk regarding Utu-hegal’s victory on the ‘barbarian’ Gutians), see e.g. Thureau- Dangin 1912 Fin, p. 111 (with transliteration and French translation); cf. also RIME 2.13.06.04.

    – [ Marco De Pietri, April 2024]

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12.6 Climatic Changes

  1. On climate changes, see also Issar & Zohar 2007 Climatic, Issar & Zohar 2013 Climate, Butzer 1995 Environmental, and Liverani 2018 Paradiso, ch. 2.2.

    – [ Marco De Pietri, April 2024]