TY  - GEN
AU  - Maidman,M.P.
AU  - Guinan,Ann
TI  - Nuzi texts and their uses as historical evidence
T2  - Writings from the ancient world
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Atlanta
PB  - Society of Biblical Literature
KW  - Texts
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Sources
KW  - Registration and transfer
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Nuzi (Extinct city)
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Akkadian language
KW  - Hurrians
KW  - Land titles
N1  - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb08883
ER  -