Seleucid Tablets from Uruk in the British Museum

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_325
dc.creator	Corò Paola
dc.title	Seleucid Tablets from Uruk in the British Museum. Text Editions and Commentary
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the British Museum acquired as part of its cuneiform collections 120 economic tablets from Uruk dating to the Seleucid period; they belong to what has been described as “the most spectacular Hellenistic archives available today”. This book offers an analysis of the collection, accompanied by text editions. The approach adopted is to explore the documents in three main thematic sections: arable land, urban properties, and temple prebends. The administrative texts have been treated as a group. Particular attention is paid to the role played by specific families, individuals or groups in each area of interest, as well as to shedding new light on the ownership patterns and business strategies that characterised the activities of the parties to the documents.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi orientali
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-246-8
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2018-04-05
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-247-5/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-247-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-246-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Administrative texts
dc.subject	Arable land
dc.subject	British Museum
dc.subject	Cuneiform tablets
dc.subject	Prebends
dc.subject	Seleucid period
dc.subject	Urban properties

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Seleucid Tablets from Uruk in the British Museum

Text Editions and Commentary

Paola Corò Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the British Museum acquired as part of its cuneiform collections 120 economic tablets from Uruk dating to the Seleucid period; they belong to what has been described as “the most spectacular Hellenistic archives available today”. This book offers an analysis of the collection, accompanied by text editions. The approach adopted is to explore the documents in three main thematic sections: arable land, urban properties, and temple prebends. The administrative texts have been treated as a group. Particular attention is paid to the role played by specific families, individuals or groups in each area of interest, as well as to shedding new light on the ownership patterns and business strategies that characterised the activities of the parties to the documents.

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April 5, 2018

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978-88-6969-247-5

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-246-8

Number of pages

492

Dimensions

21x28 cm

Keywords

Arable land • Prebends • Administrative texts • Cuneiform tablets • Seleucid period • British Museum • Urban properties

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