New Light on the Hydrology and Topography of Southern Babylonia in the Third Millennium

Autor:	Piotr Steinkeller
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	Archeology Geography Hydrology (agriculture) Ancient history Toponymy Canal system Archaeology
Zdroj:	Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie. 91
ISSN:	1613-1150 0084-5299
DOI:	10.1515/zava.2001.91.1.22
Popis:	Through an extensive study of third millennium sources, chiefly among them, the UrIII tablets from Umma, this paper reaches the conclusion that the watercourse thought by Th. Jacobsen and other scholars to represent the eastern branch of the Euphrates was known in antiquity as the Tigris (Idigna). In this connection, various other related problems of topographic nature are considered, such as the location of the canal Iturungal and the town NAGSU, the course of the Tigris in the Umma province, the role of KAsahar in the canal system of southern Babylonia, the identities of the towns of Esagdana and TumTuR, and the sites situated along the stretch of the Tigris between Adab and KAsahar.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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