Constituent, confederate, and conquered space : : the emergence of the Mittani state / / edited by Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Nicole Brisch, Jesper Eidem.

• Superior document: Topoi, Berlin Studies of the Ancient World, Volume 17
• Author: Eidem, Jesper
• TeilnehmendeR: Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva Christiane,; Brisch, Nicole Maria,; Eidem, J.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin, [Germany] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : De Gruyter,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Topoi ; Volume 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 290 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)..
• Notes: "Proceedings of a conference held summer of 2009."

Das Mittani-Reich war eine der großen imperialen Strukturen des Alten Orients im 2. Jahrtausend v.Chr. Es erstreckte sich von der Levante über Obermesopotamien bis an den Zagros. Doch noch immer ist das Wissen um Entstehung und die innere Verfasstheit dieses Staates begrenzt. In diesem Band untersuchen Altorientalisten, vorderasiatische Archäologen und Historiker das Verhältnis von älteren und zeitgenössischen Formen der Organisation des Territoriums - politisch, kulturell, gesellschaftlich - zu diesem neuen Staat.

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.

Table of Contents

Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva / Brisch, Nicole / Eidem, Jesper -- I. Imperial Constructs - Modes of Governance -- Levantine Polities under Mittanian Hegemony / Dassow, Eva von -- The Organisation of Residential Space in the Mittani Kingdom as a Mirror of Different Models of Governance / Otto, Adelheid -- The Mittani State: The Formation of the Kingdom of Mittani / Martino, Stefano de -- The Imperial Space - The Early Hittite Kingdom / Klinger, Jörg -- II. Political Landscapes - Antecedents in Upper Mesopotamia -- Inherited Space - Third Millennium Political and Cultural Landscape / Biga, Maria G. -- Central Anatolia in the Nineteenth and Eighteenth Centuries BC / Michel, Cécile -- The Kingdom of Šamšī-Adad and its Legacies / Eidem, Jesper -- Political Space - Local Political Structures in Northern Syria: The Case of the Country of Ida-Maras· in the Eighteenth Century BC / Guichard, Michaël -- 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 / Meijer, Diederik J. W. -- Settled Space. Evidence for Changes in Settlement Patterns of Northern Mesopotamia at the Advent and at the Turn of the Mittani Era / Koliński, Rafał -- The Settlement Pattern of the Western Upper Khabur from the Old Babylonian Period to the End of the Mittani Era / Lyonnet, Bertille / Faivre, Xavier -- Spaces of Measures and Numbers in Upper Mesopotamia / Chambon, Grégory -- IV. Reflections -- The Age of Opportunity: Social and Political Transitions in Mid-Second Millennium BC Mesopotamia / Yoffee, Norman -- Reflections on the Mittani Emergence / Schwartz, Glenn M. -- Abbreviations -- Indices