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Ancient Lagash
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![]() Davide Nadali is Associate Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Holly Pittman is Director of the Final Publication Project of the Al Hiba Excavations and Director of the Lagash Archaeological Project Andrea Polcaro is Professor and Researcher in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Perugia University, Italy |
The State of Lagash was one of the major political powers in the Sumerian world of the 3rd millennium BC, with archaeological attestations at least since the 5th millennium BC. Located in present-day southern Iraq, this State incorporated three main cities: Girsu (Tello), Lagash (Tell al-Hiba), and Nigin (Tell Zurghul). The volume presents the results of studies and excavations carried on in these sites until 2015, providing new data for their historical interpretation. The volume collects contributions to the research at al-Hiba, under the supervision of H. Pittman, a section dedicated to the first archaeological campaign undertaken at the site of Nigin under the direction of D. Nadali and A. Polcaro, and the research on the site of Girsu under the joint direction of S. Rey and F. Husain. … |
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Ancient Lagash, pp. 145-160, 2022/12/27
Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016
The unpublished ceramic corpus retrieved during six seasons of excavation at the site of al-Hiba is the largest dataset of such material from the southern Mesopotamian alluvium. As part of the al-Hiba Publication Project, this dataset has been organized in a formal typology and subjected to statistical analysis to detect chronological development and spatial distribution on the site. While the corpus fits well within the general Mesopotamian evolution of ceramic production during the 3rd and 2nd millennia, on a more detailed level there is distinct regional variation. Certain ceramic types known elsewhere are absent, while others appear to be local to the region. With the final publication of the al-Hiba ceramic corpus in sight, this paper presents a few preliminary observations demonstrating a higher degree of regionalization in southern Mesopotamian ceramics than previously assumed.
Keywords: al-Hiba, Lagash, 3rd millennium BC, ceramics, typology, regionalization