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New Perspectives on the History of Early Mesopotamia

The Region of Irisagrig and Malgum
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Published/Copyright: 2026
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Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER)

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The history of the Irisaĝrig and Malgûm region of central Babylonia had been neglected by near eastern studies for decades. This changed with the looting and dissemination of thousands of cuneiform tablets found by illegal excavators in the city of Irisaĝrig, whose location remains unknown. The documents appeared on the antiquities market in the early 2000s or were confiscated by the Iraqi authorities and entered the collections of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad and the Sulaymaniyah Museum. Since then, archaeological fieldwork in the area has intensified, leading to the identification of Tulūl al-Fāj and Tulūl al-Baqarāt with the cities of Malgûm and Keš respectively. This book brings together for the first time the research of archaeologists and philologists on this region of ancient Mesopotamia. It presents the results of their ongoing archaeological research, together with studies of the geography, history and economy of the region, and devotes a section to the work of Iraqi scholars in cataloguing and editing the cuneiform material held in national museums, in the belief that all this will contribute to the advancement of knowledge, the promotion of international academic cooperation and the preservation of Iraq's heritage.

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Palmiro Notizia, University of Bologna, Italy; Manuel Molina, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Acknowledgements

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    Contents

    VII
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    Abbreviations and Conventions

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    Introduction

    1
    Molina Manuel and Notizia Palmiro
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    Returning Iraqi Antiquities

    9
    Hanan Abd Alhamza Alessawe
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  • Archaeological Research and Geographical Setting
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    The QADIS Survey Project: Settlements Patterns and Pottery Assemblages from the Western Region of Irisaĝrig and Malgûm

    19
    Eleonora Mariani and Marco Valeri
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    Investigations in the Land of Malgum

    47
    Lucio Milano and Candida Felli
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    Tulūl al-Baqarāt / Keš: The Settlement and Its Surroundings

    73
    Carlo Lippolis and Maurizio Viano
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    Irisaĝrig Reloaded

    99
    Maurizio Viano
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  • Historical and Philological Studies
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    Urmes Appointed, Dismissed, and Re-appointed as Governor of Irisaĝrig: A Model Case of Royal Interventions and Their Administrative Implementation

    113
    Walther Sallaberger
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    The Governors of Irisaĝrig When It Was a Province of the Ur III State

    141
    Francesco Pomponio
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    Animal Husbandry and Animal Fattening in Irisaĝrig During the Ur III Period

    151
    Palmiro Notizia
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    Artisans, Crafts, and Treasuries in Irisaĝrig

    177
    Manuel Molina
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    Merchants on the Frontier

    217
    Steven J. Garfinkle
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    The Roadhouse in Irisaĝrig

    227
    Zhi Li
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    On the Roads to Elam: A sukkalmah in the Zagros at the End of the Ur III Period

    249
    Bertrand Lafont
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    A New Inscription of Nur-Eštar and Its Implications for the Early History of the Malkum Kingdom

    265
    Piotr Steinkeller
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  • New Textual Sources
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    Tablet Fragments from the Iraqi Excavations at Tell al-Wilayah (Fourth Season, 2002)

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    Abather Saadoon and Mark Weeden
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    The Ruling Family of Adab During the 21st Century bce: Some New Data

    313
    Ari Kh. Kamil
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    Six Ur III Texts From Irisaĝrig in the Sulaymaniyah Museum

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    Hayman Noori Fattah
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    Cuneiform Tablets from the Archive of Irisaĝrig

    345
    Wafaa Hadi Zwaid
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    New Texts from the Archive of Irisaĝrig in the Sulaymaniyah Museum

    359
    Aram Ali Hama Amin, Ardalan Khwshnaw and Manuel Molina
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    Personal Names Index

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    Divine Names and Cultic Locations Index

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    Geographical Names Index

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    Sumerian Words and Phrases Index

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    Ancient Sources Index

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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 21, 2026
eBook ISBN:
9781501520358
Hardcover published on:
April 21, 2026
Hardcover ISBN:
9781501522994
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
9
Main content:
409
Illustrations:
111
Coloured Illustrations:
72
Tables:
33
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501520358
eBook ISBN: 9781501520358
Hardcover ISBN: 9781501522994
Keywords for this book
Mesopotamia; antiquity; Irak; cultural heritage_x000D_
Audience(s) for this book
Archaeologists, assyriologists, historians of ancient near East, specialists in heritage studies
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