NOTES
1 Cf. DEPM, 297.
2 In the political terminology, the Euphrates bank ah
̆Purattim, represents the territory of the
four main districts of the Mari reign: Mari, Terqa, Saggaratum and Qattunan, (Lafont 2001 :
218 – 219 ).
3 ‘Aus dem atappumwird Wasser zur bewasserung der Felder (ana sˇiqı ̄tim) abgeleitet’ (Stol 1980 :
346 ).
4 Rations to a ̄ lik eqlimare listed in text ARMIX 25 , and in a series of administrative texts
referring to the same ‘rural domain’: ARMXXIII 106 , 107 , 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 ,
114 , 115 , 117 , 119 , 120 ; ARMXXIV 14 , 15 , 16. In texts ARMXXII 285 and XXIV 20
quantities of grain defined as SˇE.BA É (‘barley rations for the rural domain’) list rations both
for men and working animals.
5 ARMXXIII 121 , 122 , 123 , 124 , 460 , 461 , ARMXXIV 2.
6 Birot in ARMXXVII, pp. 10–11, comments on the six letters entirely devoted to the subject
of a locust invasion in the district of Qattunan (ARMXXVII 26 – 31 ) and the shorter mentions
(ARMXXVII 32 – 35 , 38 ). See also Lion and Michelle 1997.
7 See texts ARMII 107 = DEPM 354 ; ARMIII 62 = DEPM 178 and A. 3872 + (Durand 1990 :
109 ).
8 Cf. ARMXXVII 38.
9 For the cultivation of olive trees at Ebla, see Archi 1991 ; for the region of Alakhtum, probably
Alalakh, see Durand 2002 : 82 – 84 and texts FMVII 28 , 35 , 36.
10 Cfr. ARMXIII 39 = DEPM 781 , and Luke 1972.
11 ARMII 104 = DEPM 179 , ARMXIV 35 = DEPM 181 , ARMXIV 36 = DEPM 393 , FM
II 34
12 It was present also along the Khabur banks (Morandi Bonacossi 1996 : 47 ).
13 A sporadic case is ARMXXII 328.
14 ARMVIII 6 , similarly to what is attested in a text dating to the sˇakkanakkuperiod, M. 10556
(Durand 1982 : 81 ).
15 100ikûseems to be the surface of a ‘standard field’ given to a ‘farmer’ responsible for one
‘plough’ also in lower Mesopotamia in neo-Sumerian times (Liverani 1988 – 89 : 299 and fn.
17 ; Liverani 1998 : 47 ).
16 The following texts mention a surface of land assigned to the Mari ploughs: FM11, 32, 5
ikû; ARMXIII 39 , 50 ikû; ARMXXVI/I 76 , 70 – 100 ikû; ARMXXIII 37 , 80 ikû; ARM
XXVII 36 , 166. 66 ikû(for six ploughs) or 142. 85 ikû(for seven ploughs); ARMXXVIII 36
- ARMXXVII 100 , 150 ikû.
17 See text DEPM 6 and ARMXXVI.
18 Cf. ARMI 56 = DEPM 756 ; ARMXIV 81 = DEPM 752 and A. 450 (Durand 1998: 533–534).
ABBREVIATIONS RELATED TO THE MAIN
EDITIONS OF THE MARI TEXTSARM– Archives Royales de Mari( 28 vols).
DEPM– J.M. Durand, Les documénts épistolaires du palais de Mari, Littératures Anciennes du Proche-
Orient, 16–18( 3 vols – Tome I 1997 ; Tome II 1998 ; Tome III 2000 ).
FM– Florilegium Marianum( 7 vols: I – 1992 J.M. Durand (ed.) Recueil d’études en l’honneur de Michel
Fleury; II – 1994 D. Charpin and J.M. Durand (eds) Recueil d’études à la memoire de Maurice Birot;
III – 1997 D. Charpin and J.M. Durand (eds) Recueil d’études à la memoire de Marie-Thérèse
Barrélet; IV – 1999 N. Ziegler, La population feminine des palais d’après les archives royales de Mari:
le Harem de Zimri-Lim; V – 2003 D. Charpin and N. Ziegler, Mari et le Proche-Orient à l’époque
amorrite: éssai d’histoire politique; VI – 2002 D. Charpin and J.M. Durand (eds) Receuil d’études à
la mémoire d’André Parrot; VII – 2002 J.M. Durand, Le culte d’Addu d’Alep et l’affaire d’Alahtum).
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