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Nuzi texts and their uses as historical evidence / by Maynard Paul Maidman ; edited by Ann K. Guinan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maidman, M. P.
- Series:
- Writings from the ancient world ; no. 18.
- Society of Biblical Literature : writings from the ancient world ; no. 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Akkadian language--Texts.
- Akkadian language.
- Hurrians--Social life and customs--Sources.
- Hurrians.
- Land titles--Registration and transfer--Iraq--Nuzi (Extinct city).
- Land titles.
- Nuzi (Extinct city)--Economic conditions--Sources.
- Nuzi (Extinct city).
- Physical Description:
- xx, 296 p. : ill., maps, geneal. tables.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-275) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-58983-627-8
- OCLC:
- 922968102
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb08883 hdl
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