The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

This concept of an ordered society and the king’s responsibility govern centuries of Babylonian ideology, down to Nabonidus ( 55 ...

instead, almost exclusively, on the metaphor of the shepherd and the builder. The Babylonians, too, in sharp contrast to the Akk ...

influence of these different groups. From the Old Akkadian period onwards, land in the open country was given as fief in return ...

for seventy (days per year), I obligated those in a household of dependent workers to service for ten days per month. (Roth 1995 ...

Mesopotamia, in a predominantly planned economy, encompassing the whole empire of the Third Dynasty of Ur. In this ‘global’ econ ...

These so-called ‘house-born’ slaves could advance sometimes in their social position, and stipulations in the Old Babylonian law ...

and loan. Naturally, these ideas spread to the private sector (Steinkeller 2002 ) – some scholars assume that it even originated ...

royal measures aimed at the stabilisation of the social balance and the social order within the state. When, at the beginning of ...

distrust in the law does finally open the path to arbitrary actions. Indeed, this may have contributed to a development where th ...

–––– ( 2002 ) ‘Royal Edicts of the Old Babylonian Period – Structural Background’, in Hudson and Van De Mieroop (eds) 2002 : 139 ...

CHAPTER TWENTY ARAMEANS AND CHALDEANS Environment and society  Frederick Mario Fales At that time, the road of yore for going ...

provide us with a basic chronological framework on Assyrian conquests from one ruler to the next (Fales 1999 – 2001 ); and are p ...

and clanic onomastics of the Arameans do present a Southern Semitic flavour (Lipinski 2000 : 422 – 424 ). Now for the Chaldeans ...

satellite photography has shown in the last decades of research – scars the southern Mesopotamian countryside in a factually ine ...

levels and by a diminution of urbanism, with a corresponding increase of economic and social ruralization. Another feature that ...

serious lack of water (Brinkman 1995 ). Thus, the fact that the territories of the three main Chaldean tribes (Bit-Dakkuri, Bit- ...

denomination. The social (and, when necessary, military/political) leadership of each ramification or clanic unit went back to a ...

their demographical dimensions, their specific territorial quarters, and their distinctive ethnicity: such as the Utu’/Itu’, who ...

Babylonia ( 703 BC), boasts of having besieged and conquered 33 walled cities and 250 townships of Bit-Dakkuri; 8 walled cities ...

in the tormented situation of Babylonian politics during the ninth and eighth centuries BC, from an ideological and practical po ...