Reconstructing History from Ancient Inscriptions: The Lagash-Umma Border Conflict

by Jerrold S. Cooper

The Lagash Umma border dispute is the earliest well - documented interstate conflict known. From about 2500 to 2350 B.C.the Sumerian city - states of Lagash and Umma contested the right to exploit a tract of land on their common border, and their dispute is documented by a series of inscriptions filled with claims and counterclaims, and some times vivid descriptions of battles between the two states. This volume makes available for the first time,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890030596
• ISBN13: 9780890030592
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Undena Publications
• Length: 61 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.