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CALENDARS AND FESTIVALS IN MESOPOTAMIA IN THE T...

From the latter half of the third millennium to the end of the second millennium BC  various
calendar systems emerged and were used in the cities of Mesopotamia and the surrounding
regions. A variety of calendars were utilized at different cities until the so called Nippur
calendar became predominant  to be adapted broadly throughout the entirety of Mesopotamia
towards the end of the second millennium BC. In order to compare the sources concerning
calendars as practiced in different cities in various periods during the second Millennium BC
and earlier  a conference sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education  Culture  Sports 
Science and Technology was held in University of Tsukuba in March  2016  with the participation
of an international group of experts of the third and second millennia BC. This volume presents
ten papers contributed by Assyriologists who took part in the conference. Through a fresh
review of available sources  as well as the publication of new texts and documentary and
archaeological details  the volume presents­ an important set of studies on calendars. It
analyzes the ones used at Girsu  Ebla  Nadaba  Ur  Nippur  Mari  ASSur and KaneS  Terqa 
¿abatum ¿abetu  and Emar from the pre-Sargonic period to the end of the second Millen­nium BC.
Including indices of the names of months and festivals the volume represents a new academic
front in the study of the calendric traditions in Syro-Mesopotamia during these periods.

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