News from the Eastern Front: The Evidence from Tell Shemshāra

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Landscape and Settlement in the Eastern Upper Iraqi Tigris and Navkur Plains: The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project, Seasons 2012–2013

“…These tumuli may mark the burials of the pastoral nomadic groups known from cuneiform and later sources, but in the absence of excavation caution is required (Morandi Bonacossi in press b). 16 Cairn fields dot The Mari and Shemshara texts of the time of Samsi-Addu (about 1808-1776 B.C., middle chronology) mention in the region to the east and west of the Upper Iraqi Tigris the Ya'ilanum, a poorly known Amorite tribe ruled by a king called Mar-Addu, which lived in the lands of Nurrugum and Qabra (Eidem andLaessøe 2001: 23 andCharpin andZiegler 2003: 90-101). At this time the LoNAP region was part of the local kingdom of Nurrugum, to which belonged sites like Talmush/Ger-epan?, Ninet/Nineveh, Shibanum=Shibanibe/Tell Billa and Kilizum/Qasr Shemamok (Charpin and Ziegler 2003: 77;Ziegler 2004).…”

The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey: Preliminary Results, 2012–2020

“…1). The position of its eponymous capital city has been the source of much speculation, but it has generally been placed in the southern Erbil Plain (Eidem 1985: 84; Deller 1990). The EPAS project identified Kurd Qaburstan (Site 31) as a likely candidate for this lost capital on CORONA imagery and confirmed its wall and its MBA date via field survey in August 2012 (Ur et al 2013: 99–100).…”

The Impact of Patty Jo Watson's Ethnography

“…Watson (1979a) is referenced for topics ranging from the effect of children on the landscape (Bugarin 2005), to bone game pieces (Gilmour 1997), to the date of the spring harvest (Eidem 1985). Architecture and architectural distributions are the most cited topic (28% of the citations).…”