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The Province of Umma
The province of Umma is located northwest of the Lagash province and northeast of the Uruk province. During the Ur III period the province was centered almost exclusively at UmmaUmma, modern Tell Djoha. During the Presargonic period it is possible that the main center was Tell al-Agrib located to the southeast of Umma.
Gu(e)dena and Mushbiana
Gu(e)dena and Mushbiana are the names of two important agricultural districts in the province of Umma, there are no major setlements attested in the area.
The district of Gu(e)dena is well known from the Old Sumerian Royal inscriptions from Lagash, describing the returning battles between Umma and Lagash over this fertile agricultural district.
Garshana and other Rural Settlements in the Umma Province
Bibliography
R. McC. Adams, "An Interdisciplinary Overview of a Mesopotamian City and its Hinterlands," CDLJ 2008:1
J. L. Dahl, "The Ruling Family of Ur III Umma: A Prosopographical Analysis of an Elite Family in Southern Iraq 4000 Years Ago" (Unpublished UCLA Dissertation 2003; to be published in PIHANS 2007).
P. Steinkeller "The Administration and Economic Organization of the Ur III State: The Core and the Periphery," in M. Gibson and R. D. Biggs, eds., The Organization of Power: Aspects of Bureaucracy in the Ancient Near East. SAOC 46 (1987), pp. 119-141 _, "New Light on the Hydrology and Topography of Southern Babylonia in the Third Millennium," ZA 91 (2001), 22-84
