Abu Salabih ( Arab. أبو صلابيخ ) is the place where the lower telly is located . Approximately 19 km north-west of ancient Nippur in Cadisia ( Iraq ) is a place where previously there existed a small city of Sumerii in the middle of the 3rd millennium BC e. [1] , who had cultural connections with Kish , Mari and Ebla [2] . The name of this city is still uncertain. Perhaps it was Eresh [3] . Also suggest that it was Kesh. Euphrates for the city was a vital trade and transport corridor. After the river changed its course in the middle of the III millennium BC. e., the life of the city came to naught. Only the eroded traces of the Early Dynastic period of Sumer remain on the surface of the site [4] .
| Abu Salabih | |
|---|---|
| بو لابيخ | |
| A country |  Iraq |
| Governorate | Qadisiya (governorate) |
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Archeology
Abu Salabih was discovered during excavations by an American expedition from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago . The expedition was led by Donald P. Hansen in 1963 and 1965 . During the 8 weeks of the expedition, approximately 500 tablets and fragments were found [5] . After 1975, the site was run by British specialists under the direction of Nicholas Postgate , who worked for the British School of Archeology in Iraq ( 1975 - 1989 ). Since 1990, excavations have been halted due to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait . Postgate reported that he was ready to resume field work, which was suspended due to political events [6] . The city, built straight in the Early Hook period, looked small, but at the same time 500 cuneiform tablets were found there, which were first stored in the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad , until most of them were lost due to the robbery of the museum at the beginning of the Iraq war . but fortunately, they have already been published. Tests comparable in date and content to texts from Shuruppak (present-day Farah in Iraq) included school, literary texts, word lists, some administrative archives, as well as Shurpaka's instructions — famous Shemeriyan texts of wisdom, which have the oldest copy of the tablet Abu Salabih. Postgate's interdisciplinary approach aimed at describing the daily life of a small Sumerian city, including the life of simple illiterate people [7] .
See also
- Cities of the ancient Near East
Literature
- Robert D. Biggs, The Abu Salabikh Tablets. A Preliminary Survey, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 73-88, 1966
- Nicholas Postgate, “Excavations at Abu Salabikh 1976”, Iraq , vol. 39, pp. 269-299, 1977
- Nicholas Postgate, "Excavations at Abu Salabikh 1977 ', Iraq , vol. 40, pp. 89-100, 1978
- Nicholas Postgate, "Excavations at Abu Salabikh 1978-79", Iraq , vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 87-104, 1980
- Nicholas Postgate and JA Moon, “Excavations at Abu Salabikh 1981”, Iraq , vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 103—136, 1982
- Nicholas Postgate, “Excavations at Abu Salabikh 1983”, Iraq , vol. 46, pp. 95-114, 1984
- RJ Matthews and Nicholas Postgate, “Excavations at Abu Salabikh 1985-86”, Iraq , vol. 49, pp. 91-120, 1987
- Nicholas Postgate, “Excavations at Abu Salabikh 1988-89”, Iraq , vol. 52, pp. 95-106, 1990
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Notes
- ↑ Ian Shaw, in Shaw and Robert Jameson, eds., A Dictionary of Archeology (Blackwell) 2002, sv "Abu Salabikh".
- ↑ PRS Moorey, “Abu Salabikh, Kish, Mari and Ebla: Mid-Third Millennium Archaeological Interconnections,” American Journal of Archaeology 85 .4 (October 1981: 447-448).
- ↑ Roger Matthews, The Archeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches (Routledge) 2003: 163; see also Mark E. Cohen's speculation in note below
- Oc "Occupation of the Dynastic IIIa , or shortly thereafter, it was never reoccupied:", concludes D. Hanson in Oriental Institute Papers 99, p. 55).
- ↑ RD Biggs, with a chapter by DP Hansen. Inscriptions from Tell Abu Salabikh , (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press), 1974 ISBN 0-226-62202-9 . Transcribes all of the cuneiform tablets excavated at Tell Abu Salabikh in 1963 and 1965. (also available online OIP 99 [1]
- ↑ Prof. Nicholas Postgate Archived April 12, 2008. : At the Kilise Tepe, in the province of Mersin in southern Turkey.
- G Postgate summarized the discoveries of the Mesopotamian Discovery (London) 1982: 48-61.