The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE OLD BABYLONIAN ECONOMY  Anne Goddeeris INTRODUCTION T he Old Babylonian period witnesses some fascinatin ...

temples. As pointed out by Renger in the previous chapter, the households operated more or less autonomously and maintained huge ...

of the craft workshops originates from what seems to be a continuation of the royal craft workshops in Ur from the previous cent ...

Throughout the Old Babylonian period, the ‘great organizations’ were to apply the principle of herding contracts for their flock ...

silver could be invested in loans for consumptive purposes (issued to fishermen and herdsmen who could not fulfil their quota) a ...

the governor of Eshnunna, Shu-ilija, declared himself independent and founded a local dynasty. At the beginning of the nineteent ...

waves during the second half of the Old Babylonian period. Some of the Kassites integrated into Babylonian society, others earne ...

Temple households The administration of two early Old Babylonian temple households from the Diyala region, of the Sîn-temple in ...

SOME CHARACTERISTIC OLD BABYLONIAN ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS The gagûm The principle of partitive inheritance operating in Babylonia ...

with other texts such as letters concerning the annual shearing of the sheep, we are able to reconstruct the complete course of ...

could consist of military service, participation in public building or irrigation projects, transportation of barley or dates, a ...

Richardson, S. 2002 The Collapse of a Complex State: A Reappraisal of the end of the First Dynasty of Babylon, 1683 – 1597 BC, P ...

CHAPTER FOURTEEN ASPECTS OF SOCIETY AND ECONOMY IN THE LATER OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD  Frans van Koppen INTRODUCTION T he Old Ba ...

that followed Hammurabi’s experimental unification of North and South. Modern perceptions of ancient Mesopotamian history have b ...

its territorial gain and profitable access to the trade routes, Babylon’s prime concern was now to neutralize Eshnunna. This wea ...

longer documented under Babylonian rule, and certainly came to a halt when the southern Mesopotamian cities were depopulated. Al ...

‘Akkadians and Amorites’, and it would seem that everybody in the realm was included under these terms. Both names were traditio ...

Amorites, the second term, is another third-millennium appellation and was originally used for people who, from a Mesopotamian p ...

The duration and intensity of this resettlement process remain to be determined, but its consequences for the Mesopotamian demog ...

successors, required skills that only professional specialists could provide; one may furthermore assume that foreign mercenarie ...