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UNINA9910813225503321 |
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Autore |
Maidman M. P |
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Titolo |
Nuzi texts and their uses as historical evidence / / by Maynard Paul Maidman ; edited by Ann K. Guinan |
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Atlanta, : Society of Biblical Literature, c2010 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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xx, 296 p. : ill., maps, geneal. tables |
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Collana |
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Society of Biblical Literature : writings from the ancient world ; ; no. 18 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Akkadian language |
Hurrians - Social life and customs |
Land titles - Registration and transfer - Iraq - Nuzi (Extinct city) |
Nuzi (Extinct city) Economic conditions Sources |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-275) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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