J N Postgate
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 525820 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J N Postgate |
| NOMBRES | J N |
| APELLIDO | Postgate |
| FIRMA | POSTGATE J N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Bronze Age Bureaucracy
The debris of government
While a good deal of attention has been given by prehistorians to the process of “state formation” in the ancient Near East, less effort has been devoted to exploring the nature of historical states through their archaeology. This article endeavours to redress the balance a little, by looking at some of the documentary evidence for the process of government in Assyria in the late second millennium BC, in particular at its level of intervention in…
The tablets from Abu Salabikh and their provenance
During the excavations at Abu Salabikh between 1975 and 1989 cuneiform tablets of Early Dynastic date were found in a variety of contexts. Those from 1975–76 were published in Biggs and Postgate 1978, and were added to the sequence of Inscriptions from Abu Salabikh as numbers 516–32. Here all the remaining pieces from later seasons are now published, extending the sequence from IAS 533 to 556. In the first part of the article the distribution of …
The ceramics of centralisation and dissolution
Starting from Kilise Tepe in the Göksu valley north of Silifke two phenomena in pre-Classical Anatolian ceramics are examined. One is the appearance at the end of the Bronze Age, or beginning of the Iron Age, of hand-made, often crude, wares decorated with red painted patterns. This is also attested in different forms at Boğazköy, and as far east as Tille on the Euphrates. In both cases it has been suggested that it may reflect the re-assertion o…
The Assyrian Army in Zamua
The article of Manitius published in 1910 has never really been superseded: that is because it was based on the Assyrian royal inscriptions, which were well understood at the time and to which there have been few major additions (and those principally from before the reign of Assur-naṣirapli II). With new texts from Nimrud and new editions from Helsinki of the Kouyunjik archives, the time is overdue for a reassessment of the textual evidence for …
Wohnen im alten Orient
The Bronze to Iron Age transition at Kilise Tepe
The mound of Kilise Tepe, formerly known as Maltepe, stands above the left bank of the Göksu near where the river leaves the Mut basin to plunge between cliffs down to the coast at Silifke about 45km to the southeast. It thus dominates one of the best-known routes from the Mediterranean to the central Anatolian plateau. Excavation at the site began in 1994, and confirmed the presence here of Late Bronze Age occupation, already deduced from collec…
Diana Kirkbride-Helbaek 1915–1997
The School's Director for the years 1970-1975
Imperial and Administrative Records, Part I
The Uruk World System
Kilise Tepe 1994
The Göksu valley (Fig. 1), which furnishes one of the two main routes from Turkey's southern shore through the Taurus to the Konya plain and the rest of the central plateau, must be deemed one of the country's national treasures. The clear turquoise ribbon of the river threads its way south-eastwards from high in the mountains west of Ermenek to reach the Mediterranean at Silifke, or rather at the mouth of the delta it has created to the south of…
Early Mesopotamia. Society and Economy at the Dawn of History
Third-Millennium Legal and Administrative Texts in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad
Text and figure in ancient Mesopotamia
It is not necessary to stress that for the archaeologist in search of a society's thought processes, documents from the practice of religion or politics are of prime importance. With the durability of its written output on clay tablets, Mesopotamia offers an excellent opportunity to exploit this avenue, but it has not been followed in recent years. There has been a general reluctance on the part of archaeologists to engage with the written eviden…
In Search of the First Empires
The correlation of archaeological evidence with political phenomena is notoriously difficult and has rarely been seriously addressed in a Mesopotamian context. Here the complex relations between the political and cultural regions attested for early historical times in ancient Mesopotamia are reviewed, and how they might be reflected in the archaeological record is considered. Two or three culturally defined regions (southern Mesopotamia, the midd…
The Ur III Temple of Inanna at Nippur
The Archive of Urad-Serua and His Family. A Middle Assyrian Household in Government Service
The land of assur and the yoke of assur
Assyria's role in Near Eastern history was first to create a territorial kingdom in northern Mesopotamia, and then to absorb into this state and its administrative structure virtually the whole of the Near East. This short article looks at how, in the exercise of this imperial power and in its terminology, a sharp distinction was maintained between Assyria proper and the foreign states which acknowledged her overlordship. After describing these t…
Altsumerische Verwaltungstexte aus Lagaš, Teil I
Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1988-89
Work during these two seasons included the clearance of another hectare of the surface of the mounds; the completion of the excavation of a large ED III house on the east side of the Main Mound, with several intramural burials; and the initial investigation of another large ED house to the west of Area E and of a potter's work area at the northern end of the Main Mound. Various smaller soundings through the city wall and elsewhere complete the pi…
Archaeology and the Texts — Bridging the Gap
Graves 1 to 99
The second volume of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq's study of the city of Abu Salabikh. Where Volume I looked at the findings in the West Mound, Volume II deals exclusively with the graves that were excavated
Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1985-86
The following report covers two full seasons of work at Abu Salabikh, breaking with our previous practice of writing a report for this journal after each season. As well as reducing the space absorbed by each season, this has the advantage that work which was conceived on a two-season schedule as a single programme can be presented together. There was no work at the site in 1984, and none is planned on the Early Dynastic mounds in 1987; provision…
The West Mounḍ Surface Clearance
Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1983
Preliminary report on the eighth season's work in spring, 1983. Principal results can be summarized as: new information on the nature and extent of the building in Area A (? late ED palace); completion of excavation of Grave 162 which contained 5 equid skeletons; excavation in ED II housing and cross-section through ED II city wall on east side of Main Mound; recovery of another 4,000 sq m of city plan north of Area E, locating streets and house …
The land of assur and the yoke of assur
Assyria's role in Near Eastern history was first to create a territorial kingdom in northern Mesopotamia, and then to absorb into this state and its administrative structure virtually the whole of the Near East. This short article looks at how, in the exercise of this imperial power and in its terminology, a sharp distinction was maintained between Assyria proper and the foreign states which acknowledged her overlordship. After describing these t…
The Bronze to Iron Age transition at Kilise Tepe
The mound of Kilise Tepe, formerly known as Maltepe, stands above the left bank of the Göksu near where the river leaves the Mut basin to plunge between cliffs down to the coast at Silifke about 45km to the southeast. It thus dominates one of the best-known routes from the Mediterranean to the central Anatolian plateau. Excavation at the site began in 1994, and confirmed the presence here of Late Bronze Age occupation, already deduced from collec…
Kilise Tepe 1994
The Göksu valley (Fig. 1), which furnishes one of the two main routes from Turkey's southern shore through the Taurus to the Konya plain and the rest of the central plateau, must be deemed one of the country's national treasures. The clear turquoise ribbon of the river threads its way south-eastwards from high in the mountains west of Ermenek to reach the Mediterranean at Silifke, or rather at the mouth of the delta it has created to the south of…
The ceramics of centralisation and dissolution
Starting from Kilise Tepe in the Göksu valley north of Silifke two phenomena in pre-Classical Anatolian ceramics are examined. One is the appearance at the end of the Bronze Age, or beginning of the Iron Age, of hand-made, often crude, wares decorated with red painted patterns. This is also attested in different forms at Boğazköy, and as far east as Tille on the Euphrates. In both cases it has been suggested that it may reflect the re-assertion o…
Land tenure in the Middle Assyrian period
This article is an attempt to assemble and reassess the evidence relating to the problems of land tenure in the Middle Assyrian period, and to show that all ‘private’ land was normally held as a concession from the crown in return for the performance of ilku obligations. The subjects are treated in five main sections: 1: ilku and military service (pp. 496–502) 2: the Middle Assyrian laws, tablet A, § 45 (pp. 502–8) 3: allocation of tenures by the…
Two Marduk Ordeal Fragments
More 'Assyrian Deeds and Documents'
In a sense the present article continues the work of the Rev. C. H. W. Johns in publishing the neo-Assyrian legal and administrative texts from Nineveh. The majority of the new texts come from the excavations of R. Campbell Thompson at Nineveh, but in addition to these I have copied some small fragments from the older K texts, and a few pieces from the excavations of 1904 and 1905. Further, by the kindness of the authorities of the Ashmolean Muse…
A Neo-Assyrian Tablet from Tell al Rimah
Tr. 4001, which forms the subject of this note, was found in 1967 in late Assyrian fill above the north-eastern corner of the earlier temple; it lay above the line of that temple's north façade, just to the north of room II (see the plan in Iraq 30 (1968), Plate XXVIII). The tablet was therefore found fairly close to the neo-Assyrian shrine, but above it, and the late Assyrian terracing of the temple-zigurrat mound suggests that there may have be…
Two Marduk Ordeal Fragments
Wolfram von Soden
Wolfram von Soden: Grundriss der akkadischen Grammatik (Analecta Orientalia, 33; 2. unveränderte Auflage) samt Ergänzungsheft zum Grundriss der akkadischen Grammatik (Analecta Orientalia, 47). xxiv, 274, 51*, viii**, 35** pp. Roma: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1969. L 8,400. - Volume 33 Issue 2
Land tenure in the Middle Assyrian period
This article is an attempt to assemble and reassess the evidence relating to the problems of land tenure in the Middle Assyrian period, and to show that all ‘private’ land was normally held as a concession from the crown in return for the performance of ilku obligations. The subjects are treated in five main sections: 1: ilku and military service (pp. 496–502) 2: the Middle Assyrian laws, tablet A, § 45 (pp. 502–8) 3: allocation of tenures by the…
Neo-Assyrian Royal Grants and Decrees
Assyrian Texts and Fragments
The John Rylands Library, Manchester (No. P 28, Box 22).Dimensions: 5·5 × 6·4 × 2·3 cm.Copy and photographs: Plates XIII, XIVa, b (the copy is traced off the photographs and corrected after collation).
(Some Remarks On Conditions in the Assyrian Countryside *)
In 1901 C.H.W. Johns published an interesting group of texts from the archives of the Neo-Assyrian kings at Nineveh, under the title of 'An Assyrian Doomsday Book or liber censualis of the district round Harran, in the seventh century B.C.'. In contrast to some of his later work, Johns' copy of the texts was remarkably good, and with the edition he gave a full discussion of the evidence provided by the group of texts in differing spheres. No doub…
Some Remarks on Conditions in the Assyrian Countryside
Two Points of Grammar in Gudea
Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1975
With the generous consent of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago excavations at the site of Abu Salabikh were re-opened in September-December 1975 by the British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq, under the writer's direction. It is a pleasure to record here our profound gratitude to Dr. Isa Salman, Director-General of Antiquities, and to all those members of his directorate who made our work possible and assisted us in every way.…
Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1976
The British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq returned to Abu Salabikh for a second season from September to December, 1976, and we must first record our gratitude to all those who made the excavations possible. As last year our thanks go first to Dr. Isa Salman, Director General of Antiquities, Dr. Abdul-Hadi al-Fouadi and all members of the Directorate without whose co-operation our work would have been impossible. To our representatives, Sd. S…
The Governor's Palace Archive
A continuation of publishing the discoveries made at Nimrud by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq
An Inscribed Jar from Tell al Rimah
With increasing interest in the economic aspects of Mesopotamian history, precise determinations of the metrology in use at different times and places are becoming ever more urgent. Measures of capacity are particularly badly served, and the position for the Old Babylonian period is well described by M. Bottéro when he writes: “Quant à la métrologie absolue (ou plus exactement: ajustée à notre propre système métrique), aucune donnée ne nous perme…
Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1977
During October and November 1977 a third season of work at Abu Salabikh was undertaken by the British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq. On this occasion we remained at the site for less than two months, partly because we had planned to do less excavation so as to concentrate on the study of materials from the previous seasons, and partly to enable the expedition to move up to the area of the Hamrin dam, where we had a pressing invitation from th…
Inscriptions from Abu Salabikh, 1975
On Some Assyrian Ladies
Legal documents relating to marriage have always attracted the attention of Assyriologists, and rightly so, since they throw light on the social as well as the legal customs of their time. Although the laws and contracts between them have permitted some detailed studies of marriage customs in Babylonia, the evidence for Assyria is much scarcer, and in his edition of Neo-Assyrian legal documents A. Ungnad was able to transliterate no more than fou…
The Governor's Palace Archive
Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1978-79
This preliminary report is devoted to the excavation season of Autumn, 1978, although it does also include mention of a grave discovered accidentally on the North-East Mound in November, 1979, while we were not supposed to be digging, only studying at the site. The work in 1978, which in fact lasted from the beginning of October until 10th January 1979, was supported by generous grants from the British Academy, the British Museum, and the Nationa…
The Place of the Šaknu in Assyrian Government
The legacy of the Assyrian empire consisted chiefly in the administrative structure inherited by its successors, and hence Assyriologists have always been conscious of the interest of the “army” of officials who appear in the correspondence and administrative documents found in the palaces of Assyria. In reconstructing this system the views of the Assyrian scribes themselves are obviously worthy of our careful attention, and a long-known “practic…
Taxation and Conscription in the Assyrian Empire
Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1981
This report really covers the work of two seasons, because that planned for autumn 1980 had to be deferred until March 1981, and this was followed in the autumn of the same year by a rather curtailed spell at the site in October and November. A special vote of thanks is due this year to the State Organization for Antiquities and Heritage under its President, Dr. Muayad Sa'id Damerji, for enabling us to carry on our work despite difficult circumst…
Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1983
Preliminary report on the eighth season's work in spring, 1983. Principal results can be summarized as: new information on the nature and extent of the building in Area A (? late ED palace); completion of excavation of Grave 162 which contained 5 equid skeletons; excavation in ED II housing and cross-section through ED II city wall on east side of Main Mound; recovery of another 4,000 sq m of city plan north of Area E, locating streets and house …
The West Mounḍ Surface Clearance
Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1985-86
The following report covers two full seasons of work at Abu Salabikh, breaking with our previous practice of writing a report for this journal after each season. As well as reducing the space absorbed by each season, this has the advantage that work which was conceived on a two-season schedule as a single programme can be presented together. There was no work at the site in 1984, and none is planned on the Early Dynastic mounds in 1987; provision…
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