A City From the Dawn of History by MacGinnis, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Maps Foreword Preface Abbreviations Introduction

Cuneiform writing

Chronology

First Millennium Late Second Millennium Late Third Millennium/Early Second Millennium

Overview of the sources

Uruk Period (4000–3000 BC) Early Dynastic Period (3000–2334 BC) Akkadian Period (2334–2193 BC) Gutian Period (2193–2120 BC) Ur III (2120–2004 BC) Old Assyrian/Old Babylonian (2004–1595 BC) Middle Assyrian (1595–1000 BC) Neo-Assyrian (1000–612 BC) Neo-Babylonian Empire (612–539 BC) Achaemenid (539–330 BC) Hellenistic/Seleucid (330–126 BC) Parthian (126 BC–224 AD)

The name of Erbil

Historical Analysis

Erbil in the Gutian Period Erbil in the Ur III Period Erbil in the early second millennium Erbil in the Middle Assyrian Period Erbil in the Neo-Assyrian period

Ištar of Arbail Milkia

Erbil in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods Summary: from Erridu-Pizir to Alexander – Erbil in the Cuneiform Sources

Ištar of Arbail Egašankalamma Milkia

Conclusion

The Sources

Third Millennium Sources

Ebla Texts Gutian Sources

Erridu-Pizir

Ur III Sources

Year names

Year name for Shulgi year 45 Year name for Amar-Sin year 2

Votive Inscription Administrative Texts

Texts from Girsu Texts from Drehem

Early Second Millennium Sources

Stele of Šamši-Adad I Stele of Dadusha

Middle Assyrian Sources

Historical sources Votive inscription Administrative texts

Neo-Assyrian Sources

Historical Texts

Chronicles King Lists Aššur-dan II (934–912 BC) Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BC) Shalmaneser III (858–824 BC) Šamši-Adad V (823–811 BC) Sennacherib (704–681 BC) Esarhaddon (680–669 BC) Ashurbanipal (668–627 BC)

Epigraphs prepared for reliefs Grants/edicts Votive Inscription Administrative texts Oracular Pronouncements and Divination

Oracular Pronouncements Divination

Hymns and Ritual texts Ištar of Arbail

Royal inscriptions Treaties Letter formulae Personal names

Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Sources

Historical texts

Neo-Babylonian Chronicle Behistun

Administrative texts

Babylonian Elamite Aramaic

Astronomical Diary

Bibliography