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If there is one aspect of life in the ancient Near East which may be taken as a common factor between lands and cities so far removed in space and time as Sumer and Urartu, Eridu and Van, it is irrigation. This is a subject crying out for more research, especially on the ground. Here too is a link between Seton Lloyd's excavations at Eridu and in the Diyala region, his publication of Sennacherib's acqueduct and his later interest in Urartu. The writer can claim first-hand knowledge only of the last. Without Seton Lloyd's encouragement in the Institute at Ankara and likewise during the weeks spent as an assistant during the first season's excavations at Beycesultan, the writer would scarcely have set out on his first archaeological survey in northern Anatolia, followed by that in the Pontic region of Tokat and Amasya (1955). These two surveys were but the prelude to those of 1956 and 1957 in eastern Anatolia. These, undertaken initially in the expectation of discovering mounds of the Bronze Age and earlier periods, became instead largely a revelation of the great number of Urartian sites, including numerous fortresses recognizable as such from their surface remains.

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Notes on the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Pottery of Megiddó. By Robert M. Engberg and Geoffrey M. Shipton. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations, No. 10. 9½ × 7, pp. xiii + 91, ills. 25, chart 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934. 7s.

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland ◽

10.1017/s0035869x00086949 ◽

1935 ◽

Vol 67 (2) ◽

pp. 424-426

Author(s):

J. Garstang

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Early Bronze Age ◽

University Of Chicago ◽

Oriental Institute ◽

The University ◽

University Of Chicago Press

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The Ancient World - Ignace J. Gelb†, Piotr Steinkeller and Robert M. WhitingJr.: Earliest land tenure systems in the Near East: ancient Kudurrus. Part 1: Text; Part 2: Plates. (University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications, Vol. 104.) xviii, 303 pp.; x, 166 plates. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1989, 1991. $160.

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0041977x00032560 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 60 (3) ◽

pp. 542-543

Author(s):

M. J. Geller

Keyword(s):

Land Tenure ◽

Near East ◽

Ancient World ◽

University Of Chicago ◽

Oriental Institute ◽

The University ◽

Land Tenure Systems

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The Biconvex Seals of Alişar Höyük

Anatolian Studies ◽

10.2307/3642973 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

pp. 163-191 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ronald L. Gorny

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Early Bronze Age ◽

University Of Chicago ◽

Oriental Institute ◽

The One ◽

The University ◽

Central Turkey ◽

Archaeological Excavations

Archaeological excavations were conducted at Alişar Höyük in central Turkey from 1927 to 1932 by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The six years of investigation uncovered evidence that indicated the mound had been occupied intermittently from at least the Early Bronze Age through the modern Turkish period. The premature cessation of excavations at the site, however, left many issues unresolved, a situation that has bedeviled Anatolian specialists up to the present day.Foremost among the problems left unsettled by the Oriental Institute excavations was the question of whether a Late Bronze II settlement (1400–1200 B.C.) had existed at the site, an issue that was raised by the discovery at Alişar of cuneiform tablets written in the Old Assyrian script that referred to a town called Amkuwa, known also from Hittite texts as Ankuwa. On the basis of these references, scholars were quick to associate Amkuwa/Ankuwa with Alişar. The problem with this equation is that, on the one hand, a Hittite text dating to the reign of Hittite king Ḫattušili III makes it clear that Ankuwa was occupied in the LB II.

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