Where kingship descended from Heaven : studies on ancient Kish / Karen J. Wilson and Deborah Bekken, editors.

Other author Wilson, Karen L., editor.
Other author Bekken, Deborah A., editor.
Format Book
PublicationChicago : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago, 2023.
Descriptionli, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
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SeriesStudies in ancient cultures
Studies in ancient cultures ; no. 1. ^A1461996
Contents List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1. Life and death in early dynastic Kish: the evidence from Ingharra, Trench Y -- Chapter 2. Animal figurines at Kish: variability in style, completeness, and context -- Chapter 3. Kish and Hursagkalama: an assessment of the cities' history and cults in the light of information from cuneiform texts -- Chapter 4. Sasanian and post-Sasanian glass from Kish -- Chapter 5. The first actual stratigraphic profile of part of the Y Trench --
Contents Appendix 5A. Archaeological sedimentation of the Y Trench at Kish -- Chapter 6. Provenience investigations of obsidian artifacts from the Field Museum of Natural History's Kish collections using portable X-ray fluorescence analysis -- Chapter 7. The "Sasanian" stuccos of Mound H -- Appendix 7A. Stucco from Mound H, by location -- Appendix 7B. Stucco from Mound H, by K number (with related pieces) -- Appendix 7C. Technical observations -- Chapter 8. Piercers, borers, and perforators: use wear and cylinder seal manufacture --
Contents Chapter 9. Life and death at Kish: reanalysis of the human skeletal remains -- Chapter 10. Chipped- and ground-stone assemblages from Kish -- Chapter 11. Catalog of ancient near eastern seals in the collection of the Field Museum.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages xxv-li).
Issued in other formOnline version: Where kingship descended from Heaven Chicago : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago, 2023 9781614910930
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