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Nuzi texts and their uses as historical evidence
M. P. Maidman and Ann Guinan
Ancient Nuzi, buried beneath modern Yorghan Tepe in northern Iraq, is a Late Bronze Age town belonging to the kingdom of Arrapha 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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Frontmatter
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Series Editor's Foreword (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Abbreviations (page xiii)
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Ancient Near Eastern Royal Chronologies (page xix)
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Maps and Genealogical Charts (page xxi)
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Introduction (page 1)
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1 Assyria and Arrapḫa in Peace and War (page 15)
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2 Corruption in City Hall (page 81)
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3 A Legal Dispute over Land: Two Generations of Legal Paperwork (page 125)
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4 The Decline and Fall of a Nuzi Family (page 143)
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5 The Nature of the ilku at Nuzi (page 163)
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Notes (page 229)
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Text Concordance (page 263)
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Bibliography (page 267)
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Indices of Personal Names, Geographical Names, Occupations, and Text Genres (page 277)
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Published: c2010
Publisher: SBL Press
- 9781589832138 (paper)
- 9781589836273 (ebook)