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FRAGMENTS OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM BC FROM NIGIN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2021

Davide Nadali  and
Lorenzo Verderame
Davide Nadali
Affiliation:
Sapienza Università di Roma Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità Ex Vetrerie Sciarra Studio 121 Via dei Volsci, 122 00185RomaItalydavide.nadali@uniroma1.it
Lorenzo Verderame
Affiliation:
Sapienza Università di Roma Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali Circonvallazione Tiburtina, 4 00185RomaItalylorenzo.verderame@uniroma1.it
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Abstract

The ancient city of Nigin in the State of Lagash is largely attested in the epigraphic sources of the rulers of the First Dynasty of Lagash. Conversely, the archaeological evidence of the Early Dynastic Period is so far very scanty and limited. This paper presents a small group of documents to be dated to the Early Dynastic Period IIIb that were found out of context, but that nevertheless point to a phase of occupation of Nigin in the third millennium BC and are coherent with the information we already know about history of the city and the State of Lagash.

تشهد المصادر الكتابية لحكام السلالة الأولى لولاية لكش على وجود مدينة نيجين القديمة في الولاية . بعكس من ذلك، نجد الأدلة الأثرية لعصر السلالات المبكرة هزيلة ومحدودة للغاية حتى الآن . تقدم هذه الدراسة مجموعة صغيرة من الوثائق التي يرجع تاريخها إلى فترة السلالات المبكرة IIIb والتي تم العثور عليها خارج سياقها، ولكنها على أية حال تشير الى مرحلة من استيطان نيجين في الألف الثالث قبل الميلاد وتتناسق هذه مع المعلومات التي لدينا عن تاريخ المدينة وولاية لجش .

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IRAQ , Volume 83 , December 2021 , pp. 105 - 118
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2021

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Footnotes

Davide Nadali is author of the introduction and the section on the visual evidence; Lorenzo Verderame is author of the section on the analysis of written documents; both jointly wrote the conclusion.

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