Nuzi texts and their uses as historical evidence / / by Maynard Paul Maidman ; edited by Ann K. Guinan
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Atlanta, : Society of Biblical Literature, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xx, 296 p. : ill., maps, geneal. tables |
| Disciplina: | 492/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Akkadian language |
| Hurrians - Social life and customs | |
| Land titles - Registration and transfer - Iraq - Nuzi (Extinct city) | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Nuzi (Extinct city) Economic conditions Sources |
| Altri autori: |
GuinanAnn
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-275) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Nuzi texts and their uses as historical evidence |
| ISBN: | 1-58983-627-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813225503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Writings from the ancient world ; ; no. 18.