“Assyria c. 2600-1816 B.C.,”
CAH 1/2, pp. 729-770.
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This chapter of the CAH (Cambridge Ancient History) [no. 25] is devoted to the presentation of the history of Assyria between ca. 2600 and 1816; the author deals with the pre-Sargonic period, the Sargonic-period, king-lists and chronology, the Old Assyrian period, the religion, and the calendar system.
Mozan is quoted specifically on p. 731, within a discussion about the name of the city of Uruk: “Other geographical names follow a pattern similar to that of Ninua and Nina: the name of the very old south Babylonian city of Uruk is obviously identical with Urkish; this latter name is augmented by an ending -iš found in country names such as Tukrish and Mukish. The country of Urkish, located in northern Mesopotamia, was, in the period immediately preceding Sargon of Akkad, the homeland of a king Tisatal, an inscription of whom has been found”.
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