Petrus S Vermaak

University of South Africa | unisa · Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies

The province of Lagaš, whose major towns/cities Lagaš, Girsu and Nina each had several smaller villages surrounding them, had a major impact on the formation of the cultures of southern Mesopotamia. This article aims to reconstruct the richness of the variety of ancient cultures that could have had a great impact in the southern region between the...

Although a Meluhhan village (é-duru5 me-luh-ha) integrated under the jurisdiction of Girsu/Lagash in southern Mesopotamia has been known since Sargonic times, it has never previously been identified with a specific place name. In this article the Meluhhan village has now, for the first time, been connected in a Ur III text with the well-known villa...