Skip to main content
ACLS Humanities EBook

ACLS
Humanities Ebook

Browse Books Help
Get access to more books. Log in with your institution.

Your use of this Platform is subject to the Fulcrum Terms of Service.

Share the story of what Open Access means to you

a graphic of a lock that is open, the universal logo for open access

University of Michigan needs your feedback to better understand how readers are using openly available ebooks. You can help by taking a short, privacy-friendly survey.

  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. Nuzi texts and their uses as historical evidence

Nuzi texts and their uses as historical evidence

M. P. Maidman and Ann Guinan
Restricted You don't have access to this book. Please try to log in with your institution. Log in
Read Book
  • Overview

  • Contents

Ancient Nuzi, buried beneath modern Yorghan Tepe in northern Iraq, is a Late Bronze Age town belonging to the kingdom of Arrapha that has yielded between 6,500 and 7,000 legal, economic and administrative tablets, all belonging to a period of some five generations (ca. 1475-1350 B.C.E.) and almost all from known archaeological contexts. The ninety-six Akkadian texts presented here in transliteration and translation are divided in five groups dealing with topics of historical interest: Nuzi and the political force responsible for its demise; the crimes and trials of a mayor of Nuzi; a multigenerational legal struggle over title to a substantial amount of land; the progressive enrichment of one family at the expense of another through a series of real estate transactions, and the nature of the ilku, a real estate tax whose dynamic is crucial in defining the economic and social structure of Nuzi as a whole.
  • Frontmatter
  • Series Editor's Foreword (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Abbreviations (page xiii)
  • Ancient Near Eastern Royal Chronologies (page xix)
  • Maps and Genealogical Charts (page xxi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1 Assyria and Arrapḫa in Peace and War (page 15)
  • 2 Corruption in City Hall (page 81)
  • 3 A Legal Dispute over Land: Two Generations of Legal Paperwork (page 125)
  • 4 The Decline and Fall of a Nuzi Family (page 143)
  • 5 The Nature of the ilku at Nuzi (page 163)
  • Notes (page 229)
  • Text Concordance (page 263)
  • Bibliography (page 267)
  • Indices of Personal Names, Geographical Names, Occupations, and Text Genres (page 277)
Citable Link
Published: c2010
Publisher: SBL Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781589832138 (paper)
  • 9781589836273 (ebook)
Series
  • Writings from the Ancient World
Subject
  • Middle Eastern: Ancient to 632
ACLS Humanities Ebook Contact Us

Twitter

ACLS Michigan Publishing

ACLS HEB is a partnership between ACLS and Michigan Publishing

ACLS HEB

  • Browse and Search
  • About ACLS HEB
  • Impact and Usage

Information For

  • Librarians
  • Publishers
  • Societies

Quicklinks

  • Help/FAQ
  • Title List
  • MARC Records
  • KBART Records
  • Usage Stats
© 2023 ACLS Humanities Ebook · Accessibility · Preservation · Privacy · Terms of Service
Powered by Fulcrum logo · Log In
x This site requires cookies to function correctly.