The Early History of the Ancient Near East (9000-2000 BC) by Hans J Nissen

Author:Hans J Nissen [Nissen, Hans J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780226182698
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

Figure 44. Cylinder seals and protoelamite tablets from Chogha Mish (a, c) and Susa, dating from the Late Uruk–Jamdet Nasr period. After (a, c) P. P. Delougaz and H. J. Kantor, “New Evidence for the Prehistoric and Protoliterate Culture Development of Khuzestan,” Vth Congress of Iranian Art and Archaeology (Teheran, 1972), pl. 10b, d; (b) L. Legrain, Memoirs de la Del. Arch. en Perse 16 (1921), no. 330; (d) P. Amiet, “La Glyptique de l’Acropole,” Cahiers de la DAFI 1 (1971), fig. 43.10; (e) A. Le Brun and F. Vallat, “L’Origine de l’écriture a Suse,” Cahiers de la DAFI 8 (1978), fig. 4; (f) V. Scheil, Mem. de la Del. Arch. en Perse 17 (1923), pl. 7, no. 45.

This strong mutuality seems to have lasted for a relatively short time, that is, only during the Late Uruk period. The extent to which this mutuality had already begun to dissolve in the following phase is shown, for example, by the fact that from the Jamdet Nasr period on, the system of distributing rations using special containers was no longer maintained, at least not according to the Babylonian pattern. The earlier mass-produced types of bevel-rimmed bowls, which were just as numerous in Susiana as in Babylonia, had no successors. Among the subsequent types of pottery found in Susiana there is no type that can in any way be described as mass-produced, whereas the development in Babylonia during this and the following period was characterized precisely by the spread of mass-produced wares.

On the other hand, one aspect of the complex from the Uruk period, which probably fell victim to new forms of organization in Babylonia after the Late Uruk period, survived in Susiana—the carrying out of business transactions with faraway regions, insofar as this can be perceived through archaeological methods. Tepe Sialk, Tepe Yahya on the central Iranian plateau, and Shahr-i-Sokhtah in distant Seistan are probably examples of such outposts that retained their connections with Susiana.

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