The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

with canals radiant in all directions; with enclosing walls, large institutional buildings, or fortresses.^26 Layout patterns sh ...

— The world of Babylonian countrysides — Table 2.3 Old Babylonian Sumero-Akkadian varietal terms for countryside places CIVIL SE ...

(The laborer and his family) can rest because of me in a cool, well-built dwelling. And when the fire-side makes the hoe gleam, ...

— The world of Babylonian countrysides — Figure 2. 1 Sustaining areas of Babylonian settlements, including sites of all sizes. ...

Du’Urgiga, and Lumagirnunta-sˇakugepada.^48 This detailed knowledge of specific fields at the edge of the state illustrates (as ...

local elites continued to compete for territory even within the bounds of the larger kingdom.^56 It was an Akkadian administrati ...

Isin”; no “king of Larsa” until Gungunum (fifth dynast); no “king of Babylon” until Hammurabi (sixth dynast).^68 The twin ideolo ...

“justice” (nì.si.sá)^80 and debt relief^81 which all specified “the land” and its inhabitants as specific beneficiaries. OB king ...

substantial in size (containing several settlements, e.g. the twelve towns of Bı ̄t-Enlil), with defined borders (im.si.sá, im.m ...

in this time no single group dominated the countrysides: chronicle refers to the incursion of “ 105 kings of the lands of the Ah ...

tribal territories were under the authority of powerful sheikhs (nası ̄ku, rasu, and be ̄l bı ̄ti, respectively).^114 Their jur ...

with this pointed proverb: “No mother would have words with her child, and no child would disobey its mother.”^119 Yet Gudea’s e ...

4 E.g., Schwartz and Falconer 1994 , especially essays by G. Stein (Ch. 2 ) and C. Kramer (Ch. 14 ). 5 Smith 2003 ; Algaze 2001. ...

22 Of twenty-six middle Babylonian villages identified as occupied for a single-period only within the timespan of 4000 – 2350 B ...

“autonomous entity nor the king merely its representative,” and his ownership of (the) land was politically, not legally, consti ...

Sˇarrum-laba, all places close to Sippar; the indicated city-god, however, is Sîn, not Sˇamasˇ. The passage in ex. 2 from i 1 – ...

75 See below nn. 78 – 80 about the legal distinguishment of “the land”; RIME 42. 9. 15 , in which Sin-iddinam calls himself “the ...

of south and central Babylonia following 1720 BC, produced the conditions for the rural character of the Kassite national state ...

116 Smith 2003 , pp. 45 – 54. 117 A related case is KUR (ma ̄tu), most often referring to foreign lands, but by implication also ...

Finkelstein, J.J. 1962 “Mesopotamia,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 21 ( 2 ): 73 – 92. Fleming, D. 2004 Democracy’s Ancient An ...