Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Mesopotamia by Marian H. Feldman

The University of Chicago Press

Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient MesopotamiaZiggurats, Royal Sculpture, and the Shaping of the Akkadian Legacy During the Ur III Period\nAuthor(s): Marian H. Feldman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226842851, 978-0226842851\nSynopsis\nA study of how our understanding of Akkadian history has been shaped by subsequent dynasties.\n In this innovative new study of ancient Mesopotamian art and architecture, Marian H. Feldman examines the complex legacy of the Akkadian dynasty, which spanned ca. [tel] BCE in the region now known as southern Iraq. The Akkadian state played an essential role in the formation and expression of subsequent political entities in the region, yet our understanding of this period is based primarily on the historical lens of their successors, in particular the rulers of the Third Dynasty of Ur (ca. [tel] BCE). Focusing on four remaining ziggurats in Ur, Eridu, Uruk,.