Middle Babylonian Texts in the Cornell Collections, Part 2 The Earlier Kings / Part two, The Earlier Kings / by Elena Devecchi. The Earlier Kings / Part two,

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Devecchi, Elena, 1978- author.

Series:

CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology

Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology (CUSAS) ; volume 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cornell University. Department of Near Eastern Studies--Catalogs.

Cornell University.

Cuneiform tablets--Iraq--Catalogs.

Cuneiform tablets.

Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian--Catalogs.

Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.

Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian--Catalogs.

Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian.

Akkadian language--Texts--Catalogs.

Akkadian language.

Sumerian language--Texts--Catalogs.

Sumerian language.

Babylonia--Antiquities--Catalogs.

Babylonia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns, [2020]

Summary:

This volume completes the publication of Middle Babylonian texts from the Rosen Collection that date to the Kassite period, a project that was initiated by Wilfred H. van Soldt with CUSAS 30 in 2015. In this book, Elena Devecchi provides full transliterations, translations, and extended commentaries of 338 previously unpublished cuneiform tablets from Kassite Babylonia (ca. 1475–1155 BCE). Most of the texts are dated to the reigns of Nazi-Maruttaš and Kadašman-Turgu, but the collection also includes one tablet dating to the reign of Burna-Buriaš II and a few documents from the reigns of Kadašman-Enlil II, Kudur-Enlil, and Šagarakti-Šuriaš, as well as some that are not dated. The tablets published here are largely administrative records dealing with the income, storage, and redistribution of agricultural products and byproducts, animal husbandry, and textile production, while legal documents and letters comprise a smaller portion of the collection. Evidence suggests that these documents originated from an administrative center that interacted closely with the provincial capital Nippur and must have been located in its vicinity. They thus expand significantly our previous knowledge of the Nippur region under Kassite rule, hitherto almost exclusively based on sources that came from Nippur itself, and provide substantial new data for the study of central aspects of society, economy, and administration that traditionally lie at the core of research about Kassite Babylonia.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Series Editor's Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Conventions

Catalog

Concordances

Introduction

1. Origin of the Tablets

1.1 The Nippur Area

1.2 Dūr-Enlilē?

1.3 House of Enlil-Kidinnīor Bīt-Enlil-Kidinnī?

2. Remarks on Selected Text Groups

2.1 Accounts of Agricultural Revenues

2.2 Expenditures

2.3 Flock Records

3. Economic Activities

3.1 Primary Production

3.1.1 Agriculture

3.1.2 Animal Husbandry

3.2 Secondary Production

3.2.1 Milling

3.2.2 Brewing

3.2.3 Textile Industry

4. Administrative Structure

4.1 The Main Actors

4.2 Further Officials

4.3 Administrative Units

4.4 Storage Facilities

4.5 Temples

4.6 Interactions with the Royal and Provincial Government

1. Administration of Agricultural Products

1.1 Accounts of Agricultural Revenues

1.1.1 Annual tēlītu-Accounts for One Town

i. Barley Together with Other Cereals, Pulses, and Cress

ii. Sesame

1.1.2 Annual tēlītu-Accounts for Several Towns

iii. Wheat

1.1.3 Annual Edin-Accounts for One Town

1.1.4 Accounts of "Shares"

1.2 Stored Goods

1.2.1 "Stored Barley/Grain"

1.2.2 "Rest of the Stores"

1.2.3 Stored Flour

1.3 Expenditures

1.3.1 Single Expenditures

1.3.2 Multiple Expenditures for One Purpose

i. Rations

ii. Fodder

iii. Seed

iv. Production Supplies

v. Supplies for Temples

vi. Loan with Interest

vii. "Delivery"

viii. Gifts

ix. "Exchange"

1.3.3 Multiple Expenditures for Various Purposes

1.3.4 aklu-Expenditures of Foodstuffs

i. Single aklu-Expenditures

ii. Summaries of aklu-Expenditures

2. Administration of Animal Husbandry

2.1 Sheep

2.2 Goats

2.3 Sheep and Goats

2.4 Cattle

3. Textile Production

3.1 Allocation of Wool as Work Material

3.2 Garments and Textiles

4. Miscellaneous Administrative Texts

4.1 Personnel Lists

4.2 Beer

4.3 Beer and Bread

4.4 Beer and Draff

4.5 Pig's Fat

4.6 Receipt of Aromatics and Disbursement of Cereals

4.7 Hides

4.8 Bricks

4.9 Paint

4.10 Wood

4.11 Sickles

4.12 Sacks

4.13 Metal

4.14 Inventory of Precious Goods

4.15 Uncertain

5. Legal Documents

5.1 tuppi aḫūzati

5.2 Contract of Exchange

5.3 Purchase of an Ox

5.4 Settlements of Disputes

5.5 Loans

5.6 Uncertain

6. Letters

7. References

8. Indexes

Personal Names

Professions

Geographic Names and Ethnonyms

Temples

Cuneiform Sources

9. Plates

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781646020812

1646020812

9781575067490

1575067498

OCLC:

1231600261