The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

aside everything obsolete and outdated. It is this discarded corpus, carefully buried in jars, that has survived the millennia. ...

were invested into the family fortune, but also in access to the other family’s commodity business (especially onions), which wa ...

of a hired man) corresponded to 22 to 75 square metres of orchard land (with a normal density of one to two trees). Orchards wit ...

date palm plantations. While at the beginning only a thirtieth of the surface, a narrow strip along the shore, had been planted ...

— Cornelia Wunsch — Figure 16. 1 Tablet from the Egibi archive showing a field plan (copy: C. Wunsch). ...

— The Egibi family — Figure 16. 2 Schematic interpretation of the field plan. ...

qa = 3600 nindan) explains why sales contracts were only drafted by a small circle of specially qualified and privileged scribes ...

who married into the family brought rich property values whereas the daughters of the Egibi had comparatively modest settlements ...

The committees were hierarchically organized and suprisingly stable. Only in a single case did judges change their positions. Ne ...

IV 221 ). It occurs in Babylonian records since the eighth century BC, long before the time of the Babylonian Captivity. By the ...

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PART IV SOCIETY AND POLITICS  ...

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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN SOCIAL CONFIGURATIONS IN EARLY DYNASTIC BABYLONIA (c. 2500 – 2334 BC)  Petr Charvát T he third segment of t ...

prominently in written sources. At one point, the landed property of the gods Baba and Ningirsu attained incredible proportions: ...

There was also an income deriving from military pursuits, booty amassed in war, as well as revenues supplied by the subjugated p ...

In warfare the rulers commanded their armies. Urnanshe of Lagash personally ‘went to war against the leader of Ur and the leader ...

which, much as a couple of fish hovering before his chest, lay their heads on his beard, might depict a ‘totemic ancestor’.^57 S ...

Early Dynastic economy, may be surmised from the fact that silver, unlike other precious metals, remained a stable component of ...

the Sumerian pantheon was also an achievement of the scribes attached to Early Dynastic elite households.^81 THE COMMONERS What ...