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Debt and Indebtedness at Emar
This book is the first comprehensive study of debts and credit system at Emar. It focuses on the socio-economic aspects of credit access and indebtedness as well as on the motivations behind debts and debt settlement in the city of Emar. The credit system is analyzed through several factors: the purpose of debts, i.e., productive or consumptive; the procedures for granting loans; the strategies put in place to meet an obligation and to cope with economic difficulties; the consequences of non-fulfillment, which may lead to servitude or slavery; the different types of slavery; slave prices; the mechanisms of enslavement; and termination of slavery. Moneylending practices and the formation of servile conditions at Emar are studied in the context of the Syrian economy aiming to understand whether the Emar evidence conforms with a socio political and economic crisis that is generally acknowledged to have struck Syria, Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia at the end of the Late Bronze Age. This work is of sure relevance for scholars interested in socio-economic history, not only of the pertinent historical-geographical area.
The Loss of Male Sexual Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia
After more than fifty years since the last publication, the cuneiform texts relating to the treatment of the loss of male sexual desire and vigor in Mesopotamia are collected in this volume. The aim of the book is to present Mesopotamian medical tradition regarding the so-called nīš libbi therapies. šà-zi-ga in Sumerian, nīš libbi in Akkadian, lit. "raising of the 'heart'", is the expression used to indicate a group of texts intended to recover the male sexual desire. This medical tradition is preserved from the Middle Babylonian period to the Achaemenid one. This broad range testifies to the importance of the transmission of this material throughout Mesopotamian history. The book prov...
Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, ca. 1415–1050 BCE
Selves Engraved on Stone explores the ways in which multiple aspects of identity were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of personal seals from ancient Mesopotamia and Syria in the latter half of the 2nd millennium BCE.
Orientalia
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Assyrian Archival Texts in the Schøyen Collection and Other Documents from North Mesopotamia and Syria
Texts: Old Assyrian (Hertel), Middle Assyrian (Llop-Raduà ), Neo-Assyrian (Radner), N. Babylonian (George), Ugaritic (van Soldt). Photograph, transliteration, translation and commentary on economic documents and letters from ancient Assyria, Babylonia, and Ugarit.
2013
Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.
The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
The volume The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia offers an overview of the study of emotions in ancient texts, discusses the concept of emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and shows how emotions are described in the ancient texts. In the section dedicated to Ancient Egypt, scholars discuss emotions such as fear, depression, anger, feelings of pain, envy, jealousy and greed, with evidence from different text genres, as well as emotions from the Late Ramesside Letters and royal inscriptions. In the section dedicated to Ancient Mesopotamia, scholars present a wide range of perspectives on Sumerian and Akkadian literary and archival texts that treat emotions in different periods.
Mittelassyrische Verwaltungsurkunden aus Assur
Die in diesem Band publizierten Verwaltungsurkunden verteilen sich zum einen auf Personen- und Rationenlisten aus der Zeit Salmanassars I. (1263-1244 v. Chr.) und zum anderen auf Briefe, Listen von Personen, Gefassen und Nutztieren sowie Notizen und Quittungen hauptsachlich aus der Zeit Tukulti-Ninurtas I. (1243-1197 v. Chr.). Die Listen beziehen sich auf eine archaologisch identifizierbare Verwaltungseinheit, die karmu rabiutu, die "Grossen Speicher," am Tabira-Tor von Assur. Die in den Listen als "Bogenleute" bezeichneten Personen waren vermutlich bei den Bauvorhaben Salmanassars I. und Tukulti-Ninurtas I. eingesetzt. Insofern erganzen die hier publizierten Texte das Bild von der archaologisch und durch Monumentalinschriften bezeugten umfangreichen Bautatigkeit Salmanassars I. und seines Nachfolgers Tukulti-Ninurta I. Eine inhaltliche Bearbeitung des hier in Autografien vorgelegten Archivs wird gegenwartig durch Jaume Llop-Radua vorbereitet.
La repressió franquista a la Ribera d'Ebre (1938-1945)
En aquest llibre, l'autor, amb un criteri imparcial, tracta d'introduir-se en el context dels represaliats de la comarca en temps del franquisme; la qual cosa, per motius diversos, fins avui no havia estat possible. La consulta dels expedients li ha donat una visió més realista dels fets, que sovint eren distorsionats. La tasca d'investigació ha estat lenta i feixuga; els entrebancs per accedir a les fonts documentals sembla que a poc a poc se superen. Les diverses acusacions que sofriren els encausats han estat el fil conductor dels guanyadors, que, moltes vegades, sense escoltar les opinions dels "perdedors", els jutjaren i, en els casos extrems, els condemnaren a la pena capital. És molt difícil dir qui tenia raó. L'autor afirma que de cada encausat en concret es podria portar a terme un extens treball. Esperem que el temps, que tot ho cura, posi cada situació al lloc que li pertoca.
Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East
In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of finished products. The thirteen intriguing chapters in Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East describe the developments and changes from household to standardised, industrialised and centralised productions which take place in the region. They discuss the economic, social and cultural impact of textiles on ancient society through the application of textile tool studies, experimental testing, context studies and epigraphical as well as iconographical sources. Together they demonstrate that the textile industries, production, technology, consumption and innovations are crucial to, and therefore provide an in-depth view of ancient societies during this period. Geographically the contributions cover Anatolia, the Levant, Syria, the Assyrian heartland, Sumer, and Egypt.
