Constituent, Confederate, and Conquered Space: The Emergence of the Mittani State

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2014

Constituent, Confederate, and Conquered Space

The Emergence of the Mittani State

Edited by: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum , Nicole Brisch and Jesper Eidem

Volume 17 in the series Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi – Berliner Studien der Alten Welt

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110266412

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About this book

The Mittani empire is one of the most enigmatic political structures in Mesopotamian history. Reconstructing the emergence and the organisation of this state, whose territory encompassed Upper Mesopotamia touching the Levant and the piedmont plains of the Zagros in the East at the height of its power, is exceedingly difficult. Cuneiform specialists, archeologists and historians discuss the Mittani state with regard to modes of spatial organisation co- and preexisting in the region.

Author / Editor information

E. Cancik-Kirschbaum, Freie Universität Berlin; N. Brisch, University of Copenhagen; J. Eidem, University of Amsterdam.

Supplementary Materials

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Nicole Brisch and Jesper Eidem Publicly Available Download PDF	1
I. Imperial Constructs – Modes of Governance
Levantine Polities under Mittanian Hegemony Eva von Dassow Publicly Available Download PDF	11
The Organisation of Residential Space in the Mittani Kingdom as a Mirror of Different Models of Governance Adelheid Otto Publicly Available Download PDF	33
The Mittani State: The Formation of the Kingdom of Mittani Stefano de Martino Publicly Available Download PDF	61
The Imperial Space – The Early Hittite Kingdom Jörg Klinger Publicly Available Download PDF	75
II. Political Landscapes – Antecedents in Upper Mesopotamia
Inherited Space – Third Millennium Political and Cultural Landscape Maria G. Biga Publicly Available Download PDF	93
Central Anatolia in the Nineteenth and Eighteenth Centuries BC Cécile Michel Publicly Available Download PDF	111
The Kingdom of Šamšī-Adad and its Legacies Jesper Eidem Publicly Available Download PDF	137
Political Space – Local Political Structures in Northern Syria: The Case of the Country of Ida-Maras· in the Eighteenth Century BC Michaël Guichard Publicly Available Download PDF	147
III. Cultural Landscapes – Regional Diversity vs. Political Unity
Marginal and Steppic Areas as Sources for Archaeological Debate: A Case for “Active Symbiosis” of Town and Country Diederik J. W. Meijer Publicly Available Download PDF	163
Settled Space. Evidence for Changes in Settlement Patterns of Northern Mesopotamia at the Advent and at the Turn of the Mittani Era Rafał Koliński Publicly Available Download PDF	179
The Settlement Pattern of the Western Upper Khabur from the Old Babylonian Period to the End of the Mittani Era Bertille Lyonnet and Xavier Faivre Publicly Available Download PDF	213
Spaces of Measures and Numbers in Upper Mesopotamia Grégory Chambon Publicly Available Download PDF	247
IV. Reflections
The Age of Opportunity: Social and Political Transitions in Mid-Second Millennium BC Mesopotamia Norman Yoffee Publicly Available Download PDF	259
Reflections on the Mittani Emergence Glenn M. Schwartz Publicly Available Download PDF	265
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	279
Indices Publicly Available Download PDF	283

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, French
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: All those interested in early states and the Ancient Near East in the second millenium BC.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 290
Illustrations
- Other: Div. Abb.
Keywords: Mittani; Mesopotamia

eBook

Published: April 1, 2014
ISBN: 9783110266412

Hardcover

Published: March 17, 2014
ISBN: 9783110265927