Works cited (season 3)

31: Introduction to Early Dynastic Sumer (& the historical Gilgamesh), 2900-2350 BCE (Gilgamesh vs Huwawa)

• Guillermo Algaze (2005b). “The Sumerian Takeoff.” Structure and Dynamics, 1(1), Sep 18 2005, DOI: 10.5070/SD911003264
• Armando Bramanti, Nicholas L. Kraus, and Palmiro Notizia (2021). “Early Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium CE: The Last Two Decades of Research (2000–2020).” Armando Bramanti, Nicholas L. Kraus, and Palmiro Notizia, eds. “Current Research in Early Mesopotamian Studies Workshop Organized at the 65th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Paris 2019.” Zaphon, Münster, 2021.
• Nicole Brisch (2013). “History & chronology.” Harriet Crawford, ed. “The Sumerian World.” Routledge, 2013, p 111 ff.
• Dominique Charpin (1995). “The history of ancient Mesopotamia: an overview.” Civilizations of the ancient Near East 2, 1995, pp 807-829
• Scott Chesworth (2021). “The Ancient World presents: The Bronze Age.” Episode 2: “EBA - The First Urban Civilizations (The Hurrians, Sumer and Elam).” AVID.fm course, accessed July 2 2021. 
• IES Edwards, CJ Gadd, NGL Hammond, eds. “The Cambridge Ancient History: Early History of the Middle East.” 3rd ed, vol 1, part 2. Cambridge University Press, 1970, p 238 ff
• Douglas Frayne (2009). “The Struggle for Hegemony in ‘Early Dynastic II’ Sumer.” Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies Journal, vol 4, fall 2009, p 37 ff.
• Samuel Noah Kramer. The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963).
• MEL Mallowan (1965). “Early Mesopotamia & Iran.” McGraw-Hill, New York, 1965, p 13 ff.
• Gianni Marchesi (2010). “The Sumerian King List and the early history of Mesopotamia.” Quaderni di Vicino Oriente V (2010), pp. 231-248
• Gianni Marchesi (2015). “Toward a Chronology of Early Dynastic Rulers in Mesopotamia.” Walther Sallaberger & Ingo Schrakamp (eds), “History & Philology.” Brepols, Turnhout, 2015, p 139 ff.
• Manuel Molina (2012). “Sumer, Geschichte.” S. Ecklin & S. Pfaffinger, eds. “Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie.” Band 13, 2012, p 297 ff.
• Jennifer R. Pournelle (2003). “Marshland of Cities: Deltaic Landscapes and the Evolution of Early Mesopotamian Civilization.” Doctoral dissertation, UC San Diego, 2003.
• Gonzalo Rubio (2012). “Reading Sumerian names II: Gilgamesh.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies Volume 64, 2012, p 3 ff.
• Christopher Woods (2012). “Sons of the Sun: The Mythological Foundations of the First Dynasty of Uruk.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 12 (2012), pp 78–96

32: Archaic Ur, 2900-2600 BCE (Gilgamesh vs the Bull of Heaven)

• Giacomo Benati (2014). “The beginning of the Early Dynastic period at Ur.” Iraq, 76, pp 1-17 doi:10.1017/irq.2014.5
• Giacomo Benati (2015). “Changes Through Time: The Pit F Sequence at Ur Revisited.” Alfonso Archi, ed. “Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 57th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Rome 4–8 July 2011.” 2015, p 91 ff.
• Giacomo Benati & Camille Lecompte (2021). “The Scale and Extent of Political Institutions in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia: The Case of Archaic Ur.” Armando Bramanti, Nicholas L. Kraus and Palmiro Notizia, eds. “Current Research in Early Mesopotamian Studies: Workshop Organized at the 65th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Paris 2019” Zaphon, Enkingweg 36, Münster, 2021, p 61 ff.
• Giacomo Benati & Camille Lecompte (2016a). “New Light on the Early Archives from Ur: The ‘Ancient Room’ Tablet Hoard.” Proceedings, 9th ICAANE, vol. 3, pp 13–30.
• Giacomo Benati & Camille Lecompte (2016b). “From Field Cards to Cuneiform Archives: Two Inscribed Artifacts from Archaic Ur and Their Archaeological Context.” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 2016; 106(1), pp 1-15.
• Eric Burrows (1930). "Appendix." The Museum Journal XXI, no. 2 (June, 1930): 106-107. Accessed January 19, 2022. https://www.penn.museum/sites/journal/9278/
• Eric Burrows (1935). “Ur excavations. Texts II: Archaic texts.” U Pennsylvania Press, 1935.
• Petr Charvát (2010b). “Archaeological data concerning the seals and sealings of archaic Ur.” Kateřina Šašková, Lukáš Pecha and Petr Charvát, eds. “Shepherds of the Black-headed People: The Royal Office vis-à-vis godhead in ancient Mesopotamia.” University of West Bohemia, 2010, p 15-17, 39 ff. 
• Petr Charvát (2012). “From King to God: The NAMEŠDA Title in Archaic Ur.” Gernot Wilhelm, ed. “Organization, Representation, and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near East.” Proceedings of the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Würzburg 20–25 July 2008. Winona Lake, Indiana Eisenbrauns, 2012, p 265 ff.
• Petr Charvát (2013). “Three Kings of the Orient in Archaic Ur.” L. Feliu, J. Llop, A. Millet Albà, and J. Sanmartín, eds. “Time and History in the Ancient Near East.” Proceedings of the 56th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Barcelona 26–30 July 2010. Winona Lake, Indiana Eisenbrauns, 2013, p 635 ff.
• Petr Charvát (2015). “O Tempora, O Mores? The Sumerian city of Ur, before and after 3000 BCE.” Reinhard Dittmann and Gebhard J. Selz, eds. “It’s a Long Way to a Historiography of the Early Dynastic Period(s).” Ugarit-Verlag, Münster, 2015, p 49 ff.
• Petr Charvát (2016). “Signs from Silence: Ur of the First Sumerians (Late Uruk Through ED I).” Grant Frame, Joshua Jeffers and Holly Pittman, eds. “Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE.” Proceedings of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Philadelphia, July 11–15, 2016, p 195. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646021512
• Reinhard Dittmann (2017b). “The Hare has lost his Spectacles. Notes on Contest Scenes, Early Occurrences.” Ash-sharq Volume 1 No 1 (2017), pp 162-169
• Camille Lecompte & Giacomo Benati (2017). “Nonadministrative documents from archaic Ur and from Early Dynastic I-II Mesopotamia: A new textual and archaeological analysis.” JCS 69 (2017) p 3 ff.
• Adelheid Otto (2010). “The iconography and use of the Ur SIS 8-4 seals reconsidered.” Kateřina Šašková, Lukáš Pecha and Petr Charvát, eds. “Shepherds of the Black-headed People: The Royal Office vis-à-vis godhead in ancient Mesopotamia.” University of West Bohemia, 2010, p 19 ff.
• Walther Sallaberger (2010). “The city and the palace at archaic Ur.” Kateřina Šašková, Lukáš Pecha and Petr Charvát, eds. “Shepherds of the Black-headed People: The Royal Office vis-à-vis godhead in ancient Mesopotamia.” University of West Bohemia, 2010, p 31 ff.
• Walther Sallaberger & Ingo Schrakamp (2015). “History & Philology.” 2015, Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium, p 57 ff.
• Eveline Salzmann (2019). “Silver, Copper and Bronze in Early Dynastic Ur, Mesopotamia: A High-Resolution Analysis Approach.” VML Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, 2019, p 13 ff.

33: Archaic Kish, 2900-2600 BCE (Gilgamesh vs Aga of Kish)

• Stuart Campbell & Elizabeth Healey (2017). “The sources of some obsidian beads found at Kish, southern Iraq.” Xavier Terradas, Nuno F. Bicho, Telmo Pereira, eds. “The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory: Sourcing, Processing and Distribution” Cambridge, 2017, p 538 ff.
• Petr Charvát (2010a). “The Earliest History of the Kingdom of Kiš.” Petr Charvát & Petra Maříková Vlčková, eds. “Who Was King? Who Was Not King? The Rulers and the Ruled in the Ancient Near East.” Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague 2010, p 16
• Francesco Del Bravo (2021). “The Diyala Region in the “long-durée” and the Territorial State of Kish.” Presentation at CANELAGH 2021, Rome
• Dorota Ławecka (2014). “Early Dynastic Kish – City-State or Country-State?” Bieliński P. et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, vol.1, Wiesbaden 2014, pp 425-439.
• Tohru Maeda (1981). “ ‘King of Kish’ in Presargonic Sumer.” J-STAGE Volume 17, 1981, pp 1-17
• PRS Moorey (1970). “Cemetery A at Kish: Grave Groups and Chronology.” Iraq, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Autumn, 1970), pp. 86-128
• PRS Moorey (1978). “Kish excavations, 1923-1933.” Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1978.
• PRS Moorey (1981). “Abu Salabikh, Kish, Mari and Ebla: Mid-third Millennium Archaeological Interconnections.” American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 85, No. 4 (Oct., 1981), pp. 447-448
• Francesco Pomponio (2013). “Further considerations on KISH(ki) in the Ebla texts.” Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale 2013/1, vol. 107, pp 71-83
• Piotr Steinkeller (1993). “Observations on the Sumerian personal names in Ebla sources and on the onomasticon of Mari and Kish.” in The Tablet and the Scroll: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W Hallo, ed. ME Cohen et al. (Bethesda, MD, 1993), p 236 ff.
• Piotr Steinkeller (2013). “An archaic ‘prisoner plaque’ from Kish.” Revue d'Assyriologie, volume CVII (2013), pp 131-157
• Niek Veldhuis (2014). “The Early Dynastic Kish tradition.” Leonhard Sassmannshausen & Georg Neumann, eds. “He Has Opened Nisaba’s House of Learning: Studies in Honor of Åke Waldemar Sjöberg on the Occasion of His 89th Birthday on August 1st 2013” Koninklke Brill NV, 2014, p 241 ff.
• Harvey Weiss (1975). “Kish, Akkad and Agade.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 95.3, pp 435-453.
• Norman Yoffee (2013). “Towards a Biography of Kish: Notes on Urbanism and Comparison.” In Literature as Politics, Politics as Literature: Essays on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Peter Machinist, edited by David S. Vanderhooft and Abraham Winitzer. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2013.
• Federico Zaina (2015a). “Craft, administration and power in Early Dynastic Mesopotamian public buildings. Recovering the Plano-convex building at Kish, Iraq.” Paléorient, July 2015, p 177 ff. DOI: 10.3406/paleo.2015.5661
• Federico Zaina (2015b). “A radiocarbon date from ED Kish and the stratigraphy & chronology of the YWN sounding at Tell Ingharra.” IRAQ (2015) no 77, pp 261–270 Doi:10.1017/irq.2015.18
• Juris Zarins (1990). “Early Pastoral Nomadism and the Settlement of Lower Mesopotamia.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 280 (Nov., 1990), pp. 31-65