Nuzi texts and their uses as historical evidence [electronic resource] / by Maynard Paul Maidman ; edited by Ann K. Guinan.

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2010.

1 online resource (xx, 296 p.) : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

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Ancient Nuzi, buried beneath modern Yorghan Tepe in northern Iraq, is a Late Bronze Age town belonging to the kingdom of Arrapḫa 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.

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August 28, 2020

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-275) and indexes.