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Life in Nuzi’s Suburbs

Authors :
Maidman, Maynard P.
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia, 2020.

Abstract

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.

Details

Language :
Italian
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........dc13cd0602d20846a1a2ac59aa30352d
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-404-2