ARTICLES OF GENERAL INTEREST

This page collects some books and articles generally dealing with archeology, anthropology, history, and philology of ancient Syro-Mesopotamian area.

Titles are listed by author, with keywords indicating the category into which the title fits. Keywords are given to the right of the title, and brief comments are occasionally added after the titles.

Some titles are included here to provide a general background to the history and archaeology of Syro-Mesopotamia, others are included because they are cited within the website. After each bibliographical entry, a brief summary is offered, presenting the core topic of the contribution. Wider abstracts are provided with a hyperlink, and occasionally more critical reviews are presented for some titles. In these abstracts, sized in paragraphs, some peculiar keywords or relevant passages are bolded to strees the topic of each section.

Comments within square brackets […] after the summary/abstract focus on topic related to Urkesh/Tell Mozan.

When a review of a publication is available, it is indicated within curly brackets, with the link to the review itself.

To the right of each entry you can find other references, such as keywords or even links to other sections of this website or other pages outside this website; here a list of the different types of references:

• cited: link(s) to pages in this website where the publication is cited (numbers are used in the case of mutliple links);
• quotes: link(s) to publications related to Urkes/Tell Mozan quoted in the entry (numbers are used in the case of mutliple links); the link(s) redirect(s) to the page in the Urkesh/eLIBRARY where the publication(s) is/are listed;
• topics (active/inactive): links to sections in this website dealing with a specific topic (e.g. conservation, park, etc.);
• links (general): links to pages outside the present website (e.g. Ur III, religion, the latter linking to 4Banks/Mes-Rel, UCLA, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, etc.).

Information about each author can be easily found on page Authors index, by clicking on the word ‘Info’ placed after the authors’ surnames.

A brief summary of the content is provided after each bibliographical entry and in some cases wider abstracts are offered. In these abstracts, sized in paragraphs, some peculiar keywords or relevant passages are bolded to strees the topic of each section.

When a review of a publication is available, it is indicated within curly brackets, with the link to the review itself.

All bibliographical entries are contained in this single file, which is sorted alphabetically by the name of the author(s). Please refer to the left side bar as a jump-off point for the retrieval of given items.

A separate file lists the entries chronologically.

Another separate file lists the entries in an alphabetical order, with only the name of the author and a short mention of the title.

NOTE:

• the “chain-like”/hyperlink symbol () at the left of each bibliographical entry provides, by hovering the mouse cursor over it, the hyperlink to that very entry.

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