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The third-millennium inscriptions

Excavations at Tell Brak • 2 • Published In 2001 • Pages: 99-120

By: Eidem, J. (Jesper), Finkel, Irving L., Bonechi, Marco.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

Eidem et al. summarize evidence that Tell Brak was Nagar, the capital of a powerful kingdom located in northern Syria, during the 44th century BP (24th century BC). They do this by examining texts from contemporary Mari, Beydar, and Ebla. They then provide a complete overview of the late third millenium inscriptions from Tell Brak, 79 in all. They provide interlinear translations for most of the texts and offer comments.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Writing

Property in movables

Texts in the speaker's language

Interlinear translations

traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

Akkadian

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

2009

RegionThe area the document pertains to

Middle East

Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region

Middle East

Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs

essay

Evaluation

Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.

Epigrapher

Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.

4: Excellent Secondary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

Sarah Berry; 2008

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

not specified

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

Old Akkadian period

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Tell Brak, Syria

NotesAdditional notes

Jesper Eidem, Irving Finkel and Marco Bonechi

For bibliographical references see document 13: Oates

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

00303945

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian/Excavations (Archaeology) Iraq/Mitanni (Ancient kingdom)/Dayr al-Zawr (Syria) Antiquities