The House of Prisoners: Slavery and State in Uruk during the Revolt against Samsu-iluna

465 Pages·2013·11.394 MB·English

by  Andrea Seri

Andrea Seri
The House of Prisoners
Studies in Ancient
Near Eastern Records
General Editor:
Rubio Gonzalo
Editors:
Petra Goedegebuure, Amélie Kuhrt, Markus Hilgert,
Peter Machinist, Piotr Michalowski, Cécile Michel,
Beate Pongratz-Leisten, D.T. Potts, Kim Ryholt
Volume 2
Andrea Seri
The House of
Prisoners
Slavery and State in Uruk during the Revolt against
Samsu-iluna
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ISBN:978-1-61451-109-0
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ISSN:2161-4155
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Contents
List of tables xvi
Plans and maps xvii
List of abbreviations xviii
Introduction 1
I “Why and How?” 1
II Prisoners of war and the bīt asīrī in previous scholarship 7
III Interpretations of the role of the bīt asīrī 10
IV About this book 15
V Cuneiform texts, conventions, principles of transliteration, and
related matters 17
Chapter 1 The archive of the house of prisoners and political history 20
I Documents dated to Rīm-Anum and the archive of the house of
prisoners 20
II Uruk during the Old Babylonian period 26
III The revolts against Samsu-iluna and Rīm-Anum’s reign 27
IV Year names, chronology and political history 29
V Administrative records and political history 36
V.1 Rīm-Anum’s first year 42
V.2 Rīm-Anum’s second year 42
VI Military activities 44
VII The rebels according to the bīt asīrī sources 47
VII.1 Daganma-ilum 48
VII.2 Ilūni 49
VIII Conclusion 51
Chapter 2 Allocation of flour 55
I General remarks 55
II Records dealing with flour allocation from the bīt asīrī 57
III Flour allocation of the ana ĝešbun type 57
III.1 Sealings 58
III.2 Recipients of the allocation 63
IV Flour allocation of the šuku type 68
IV.1 šuku e₂ asīrī 68
IV.2 ana šuku e₂ u aḫiātim 69