The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria

54 dagmar kühn the short inscription Kai 203 from hamath verifies the skn byt mlkh. 109 the title skn is well-known already in t ...

society, institutions, law, and economy 55 why Kuttamuwa claimed a special relationship to the god hadad after his death and exp ...

56 dagmar kühn belonged to the local élite who had not been eliminated by the assyrians and that he enjoyed an appropriate worsh ...

society, institutions, law, and economy 57 2.6 Further Court Officials the inscriptions mention several other titles of official ...

58 dagmar kühn should be sought in the aramaeans’ semi-nomadic past, where the herds- men (nāqidu/nōqēd) were the leaders of the ...

society, institutions, law, and economy 59 of having run at the wheel of his master tiglath-pileser iii as his father panamuwa i ...

60 dagmar kühn as strong warriors. however, swords are also mentioned in inscriptions, either as weapons (Kai 214: 25) or as met ...

society, institutions, law, and economy 61 dürfen wir die herkunft der Bronzescheibe in Samʾal oder dessen umkreis vermuten.”168 ...

62 dagmar kühn is the role of the gods as guarantors of agreements. the gods were believed to impose curses upon those guilty of ...

society, institutions, law, and economy 63 hint at economically bad times with inflationary prices (Kai 215: 6) and economically ...

64 dagmar kühn while scribes or artisans had an opportunity to achieve high social posi- tions in Syria as well as in the assyri ...

society, institutions, law, and economy 65 reflect the same global conditions as documents from the 9th–8th centu- ries B.c.”191 ...

66 dagmar kühn the production of luxury goods is especially typical for city-states with élites. the tribute and booty lists of ...

society, institutions, law, and economy 67 the grain fields and storehouses in the aramaean settlement areas are mentioned in as ...

68 dagmar kühn for Samʾal (Kai 214:7).214 the cultivation of date palms, which was wide- spread in Babylonia, is depicted only o ...

society, institutions, law, and economy 69 two talents of purple wool from pattina annually.219 excavations on tell mishrife (ki ...

70 dagmar kühn the origin of metals is not always clearly determinable. deposits of copper,229 iron,230 and tin231 existed in th ...

chapter four Language and Script holger gzella introduction aramaic first appeared on the stage of history when several newly ...

72 holger gzella a reflex of the proto­Semitic lateral /ṣ́/ written with the grapheme {q}; the third­person masc. singular posse ...

language and script 73 g­stem infinitive forms with /m­/ prefix; a gt­stem with infixed /­t­/; and the by­forms nšwn ‘women’ and ...