A Catalogue of Harbours in the Province of Ĝirsu/Lagaš Documented in the Administrative Texts of the Ur III Period

0510223 - OÚ 2020 RIV HU eng J - Journal Article
Alivernini, Sergio
A Catalogue of Harbours in the Province of Ĝirsu/Lagaš Documented in the Administrative Texts of the Ur III Period.
Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. Roč. 72, č. 3 (2019), s. 275-286. ISSN 1588-2667
Institutional support: RVO:68378009
Keywords : Ur III * harbours * Girsu * Lagas * ships * boats
OECD category: Archaeology
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://akademiai.com/doi/pdf/10.1556/062.2019.72.3.1

As is well known, boat trips on rivers and canals were an essential part of Mesopotamian economy at the end of the 3rd millennium BC, the Tigris and Euphrates, with their tributaries and canals, served as major highways in Mesopotamia. In the Ur III period, inland traffic by waterway was very extensive (more so than interregional water transport). This paper aims at highlighting ports/harbours of the province of Girsu/LagaS recorded in the administrative texts from the end of the 3rd millennium, by cataloguing the name of the places where these harbours are located.
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