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100 1  MacGinnis, John|4aut 
245 10 A City from the Dawn of History|h[Elektronisk resurs] /
       |cJohn MacGinnis 
264  1 |bOxbow Books,|c2022 
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520    The city of Erbil, which now claims to be one of the 
       oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, lies on 
       the rich alluvial plains at the foot of the piedmont of 
       the Zagros mountains in a strategic position which from 
       the earliest times made it a natural gateway between Iran 
       and Mesopotamia. Within the context of ancient 
       Mesopotamian civilisation there can be no doubt that it 
       will have been one of the most important urban centres. 
       Yet while the citadel of Erbil is without question a site 
       of exceptional interest, archaeologically the mound has 
       until recently remained virtually untouched. On the other 
       hand rich documentation allows us to understand the 
       context in which the city grew and flourished. This work 
       is dedicated to the cuneiform sources. Together these 
       include hundreds of documents stretching from the late 
       third millennium to the mid first millennium BC. The very 
       first references, in administrative documents from the 
       archives of the royal palace at Ebla, date to ca. 2300 BC.
       In the eras that follow texts written in Sumerian and then
       Akkadian attest to the city's periods of independence 
       alternating with its incorporation in the Ur III, Assyrian
       and Babylonian empires. From the Achaemenid period, while 
       the Elamite texts from Persepolis are mostly unpublished, 
       Erbil does appear both in the famous inscription of Darius
       I at Behistun and in the celebrated Passport of Nehtihur, 
       an Aramaic document from Elephantine in Egypt. The sources
       include a wide variety of administrative texts, royal 
       inscriptions, grants, chronicles, letters, votive 
       dedications and oracular pronouncements which together 
       give a unique insight into the history and society of this
       exceptional city. [Elib] 
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