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Nuzi texts and their uses as historical evidence / by Maynard Paul Maidman ; edited by Ann K. Guinan. [electronic resource] /

Von: Maidman, M. PMitwirkende(r): Guinan, AnnMaterialtyp: TextTextSprache: Englisch, Akkadisch Reihen: Writings of the ancient world ; no. 18. | Fordham perspectives in continental philosophy | ACLS Humanities E-BookAtlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2010Beschreibung: xx, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmInhaltstyp: Text Medientyp: Computermedien Datenträgertyp: Online RessourceSchlagwörter: -- Texts | -- Social life and customs -- Sources | -- Registration and transfer -- Iraq -- Nuzi (Extinct city) | Nuzi (Extinct city) -- Economic conditions -- Sources | Akkadian language | Hurrians | Land titlesOnline-Ressourcen: Volltext
Inhalte:
Introduction -- Assyria and Arrapha in peace and war -- Corruption in city hall -- A legal dispute over land: two generations of legal paperwork -- The decline and fall of a Nuzi family -- The nature of the ilku at Nuzi.
Zusammenfassung: Ancient Nuzi, buried beneath modern Yorghan Tepe in northern Iraq, is a Late Bronze Age town belonging to the kingdom of Arrapḫa that has yielded between 6,500 and 7,000 legal, economic and administrative tablets, all belonging to a period of some five generations (ca. 1475-1350 B.C.E.) and almost all from known archaeological contexts. The ninety-six Akkadian texts presented here in transliteration and translation are divided in five groups dealing with topics of historical interest: Nuzi and the political force responsible for its demise; the crimes and trials of a mayor of Nuzi; a multigenerational legal struggle over title to a substantial amount of land; the progressive enrichment of one family at the expense of another through a series of real estate transactions, and the nature of the ilku, a real estate tax whose dynamic is crucial in defining the economic and social structure of Nuzi as a whole.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-275) and indexes.

Introduction -- Assyria and Arrapha in peace and war -- Corruption in city hall -- A legal dispute over land: two generations of legal paperwork -- The decline and fall of a Nuzi family -- The nature of the ilku at Nuzi.

Ancient Nuzi, buried beneath modern Yorghan Tepe in northern Iraq, is a Late Bronze Age town belonging to the kingdom of Arrapḫa that has yielded between 6,500 and 7,000 legal, economic and administrative tablets, all belonging to a period of some five generations (ca. 1475-1350 B.C.E.) and almost all from known archaeological contexts. The ninety-six Akkadian texts presented here in transliteration and translation are divided in five groups dealing with topics of historical interest: Nuzi and the political force responsible for its demise; the crimes and trials of a mayor of Nuzi; a multigenerational legal struggle over title to a substantial amount of land; the progressive enrichment of one family at the expense of another through a series of real estate transactions, and the nature of the ilku, a real estate tax whose dynamic is crucial in defining the economic and social structure of Nuzi as a whole.

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