The Age of Opportunity: Social and Political Transitions in Mid-Second Millennium BC Mesopotamia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Imperial Constructs – Modes of Governance
6. Levantine Polities under Mittanian Hegemony 11
7. The Organisation of Residential Space in the Mittani Kingdom as a Mirror of Different Models of Governance 33
8. The Mittani State: The Formation of the Kingdom of Mittani 61
9. The Imperial Space – The Early Hittite Kingdom 75
10. II. Political Landscapes – Antecedents in Upper Mesopotamia
11. Inherited Space – Third Millennium Political and Cultural Landscape 93
12. Central Anatolia in the Nineteenth and Eighteenth Centuries BC 111
13. The Kingdom of Šamšī-Adad and its Legacies 137
14. Political Space – Local Political Structures in Northern Syria: The Case of the Country of Ida-Maras· in the Eighteenth Century BC 147
15. III. Cultural Landscapes – Regional Diversity vs. Political Unity
16. Marginal and Steppic Areas as Sources for Archaeological Debate: A Case for “Active Symbiosis” of Town and Country 163
17. Settled Space. Evidence for Changes in Settlement Patterns of Northern Mesopotamia at the Advent and at the Turn of the Mittani Era 179
18. The Settlement Pattern of the Western Upper Khabur from the Old Babylonian Period to the End of the Mittani Era 213
19. Spaces of Measures and Numbers in Upper Mesopotamia 247
20. IV. Reflections
21. The Age of Opportunity: Social and Political Transitions in Mid-Second Millennium BC Mesopotamia 259
22. Reflections on the Mittani Emergence 265
23. Abbreviations 279
24. Indices 283