Theme I: Burial customs:


Topic 1. UR

- S. Pollock, Of priestesses, priences and poor relations: the dead in the Royal Cemetery of Ur,
Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1:2, 1991 (PDF)

- P. Moorey, What do we  know about the people buried in the Royal Cemetery, Expedition 20, 1997
(PDF)

- D. Sürenhagen, Death in Mesopotamia: The Royal Tombs of Ur Revisited, in: L. al-Gailani (ed.) Of
Pots and People. Papers on the Archaeology and History of Mesopotamia and Syria presented to David
Oates in honour of his 75^th Birthday, London 2002.

- S. Kramer, The death of Urnammu, in: Near Eastern Studies Dedicated to His Highness Prince Tahito
Mikaso on the Occasion of his 75^th Birthday, Wiesbaden 1991.

- General information on the site from M. Meyers et al. (eds.), The Oxford encyclopedia of
Archaeology in the Near East, New York-Oxford, 1997 (PDF)

Also: Tombs explore:

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/tombs/story/sto_set.html


Topic 2. NINIVITE 5 CULTURE & MIDDLE EUPHRATES IN THE 3RD MILL. (For 2 persons!!!):

- G. Schwartz: Mortuary Evidence and Social stratification in the Ninivite V Period,

In: H. Weiss (ed.) The origins of cities in dry-farming Syria and Mesopotamia in the third
millennium B.C., Connecticut 1986: pp. 45-61.

- N. Laneri, Intramural tombs – a funerary tradition of the middle Euphrates Valley during the
IIIrd Millennium BC, Anatolica XXV, 1999.

+ information from Akkermans & Schwartz “Archaeology of Syria” on the burial rites in the middle
Euphrates region in the 3^rd millennium


Topic 3. ANCIENT PALESTINE IN EBA AND MBA (For 2 persons!!!):

- A. Mazar, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible 10,000-585 B.C.E. ,New York 1992 (chapters on
burial customs)

- G. Philip, Warrior Burials in the Ancient Near Eastern Bronze Age: Evidence from Mesopotamia,
Western Iran and Syria-Palestine, in: S. Campbell & A. Green (eds.) Archaeology of Death, Oxford
1995, pp.: 140-154.

- E. Baxevani, The Complex Nomads: Death and Social Stratification in EB IV Sothern Levant, in: S.
Campbell & A. Green (eds.) Archaeology of Death, Oxford 1995, pp.:85-95.

- W. Dever, “Social structure in the early Bronze IV Period in Palestine, in: T. Levy (ed.), The
archaeology of society in the Holy Land, London 1998 – information on EBA burial customs.

- D. Ilan, The dawn of internationalism in the Middle Bronze Age, in: T. Levy (ed.)”, The
archaeology of society in the Holy Land, London 1998 - information on MBA burial customs

- Information on Bab edh-Dra cemetery and Jericho EBA and MBA burial customs from: E. Stern, The
New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in he Holy Land, Jerusalem 1993 (PDF)


Theme II - SITES:


Topic 4. TELL CHUERA

W. Orthmann, The Origin of Tell Chuera, in: H. Weiss (ed.) The origins of cities in dry-farming
Syria and Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C., Connecticut 1986: pp. 61-71

+ information on Tell Chuera excavations from web site:

http://www.orientarch.uni-halle.de/digs/digs.htm

+ information from Akkermans&Schwartz “Archaeology of Syria” on Tell Chuera in EBA


Topic 5. TELL MOZAN

G. Buccellati&M. Kelly-Buccellati, Urkesh – The First Hurrian Capital, Biblical Archaeologist,
1997.

“Mozan, Tell”, in: Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, 1995.

G. Buccellati&M. Kelly-Buccellati, The Royal Storehouse of Urkesh: The Glyptic Evidence from SW
Wing, Archiv für Orientforschung 42-43, 1995/1996.

+ informations from Akkermans&Schwartz “Archaeology of Syria” on Tell Mozan in EBA and MBA


Topic 6. TELL BEYDAR

Information from web site: www.beydar.com

- in: “Detailed visit”: Brochure, Nabada (Tell Beydar) an EBA city in the Syrian JEzireh

- PPS presentation

- Anmiations

- Overview

+ information from Akkermans&Schwartz “Archaeology of Syria” on Tell Beydar in EBA


Topic 7. TELL LEILAN

Information from web site: http://leilan.yale.edu/about/index.html

-         About the project

-         Works in progress

-         H. Weiss, Tell Leilan on the Habur Plains of Syria, Biblical Archaeologist 1995 (PDF)


Topic 8. MARI:

J-C. Margueron, Mari a Prtrait in Art of a Mesopotamian City-State, in: J. Sasson
(ed.)Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, 1995: 885-899.

“Mari”, in: Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, 1995: pp. 382-418 (PDF)

+ information from Akkermans&Schwartz “Archaeology of Syria”


Topic 9 + 10 for 1 person

Topic 9. KANESH

K. Veenhof, Kanesh, An Assyrian Colony in Anatolia, in: J. Sasson (ed.)Civilizations of the Ancient
Near East, 1995: 859- (PDF)

A. Sagona & P. Zimansky, Ancient Turkey, London & New York 2009: Chap. 6 Foreign Merchants and
Native States: MBA (2000-1650): pp. 225-248.


Topic 10. EBLA

P. Matthiae, New Discoveries at Ebla, Biblical Archaeologist 47/1, 1984: pp.19-32.

L. Milano, Ebla: A Third-Millennium City-State in Ancient Syria, in: J. Sasson (ed.)Civilizations
of the Ancient Near East, 1995: 1219-1230

+ information from Akkermans&Schwartz “Archaeology of Syria” on Ebla in EBA and MBA