Barreyra Fracaroli, Diego A. (New York/USA) – Imâr and Tuttul in the Land of Dagan. An Alternative State Formation in the Syrian Upper Middle Euphrates Valley through Old Babylonian Times

This research consists of a textual analysis of the political and social interaction between tribes, cities and kingship in times of the Mari cuneiform archive. This interplay, in a socio-economic context of a pastoralist society, is a hallmark of the political developments in Syria-Mesopotamia during the third and second millennia BCE and represent essentially an alternative trajectory to state formation. [table “6” not found /]