Collana | Antichistica
Volume 26 | Monografia | Life in Nuzi’s Suburbs
Life in Nuzi’s Suburbs
Text Editions from Private Archives (JEN 834-881)
open access- Maynard P. Maidman - York University (emeritus), Canada - email
Presentazione
Nuzi was a town in what is today northeastern Iraq. It flourished as part of the kingdom of Mittanni from about 1475 to 1350 BCE, early in the Late Bronze Age. Uniquely for a town of its moderate size, Nuzi produced a huge number of documents of which almost 7,000 survive. These include economic, legal, administrative, and even a few scholastic texts. They come from government offices in the town, private houses from several of the town’s neighborhoods, and private villas in Nuzi’s wealthy suburbs. The present volume presents text editions, including transliterations, translations, and analyses of some of these tablets from the suburbs, predominantly from a single family’s records, a huge private archive, one of the largest ever to have been unearthed in the entire ancient world.
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-404-2 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-405-9 | e-ISSN 978-88-6969-404-2 | Numero pagine 236 | Dimensioni 16x23cm | Pubblicato 21 Maggio 2020 | Lingua en
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