From the Mari Archives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From the Mari Archives write by Jack M. Sasson. This book was released on 2015-06-11. From the Mari Archives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over 40 years, Jack M. Sasson has been studying and commenting on the cuneiform archives from Mari on the Euphrates River, especially those from the age of Hammurabi of Babylon. Among Mari’s wealth of documents, some of the most interesting are letters from and to kings, their advisers and functionaries, their wives and daughters, their scribes and messengers, and a variety of military personnel. The letters are revealing and often poignant. Sasson selects more than 700 letters as well as several excerpts from administrative documents, translating them and providing them with illuminating comments. In distilling a lifetime of study and interpretation, Sasson hopes to welcome readers into a fuller appreciation of a remarkable period in Mesopotamian civilization. Sasson’s presentation is organized around major institutions in an ancient culture: (1) Kingship, treating accumulation of wealth, control of vassals, dynastic marriages, treaty-obligations, as well as illustrating the hazards and vexation of ruling a large territory; (2) Administration, from palaces that teem with bureaucrats, musicians, and cooks, to the management of provinces and vassal kingdoms; (3) Warfare, military establishment and martial practices; (4) Society, including organs of justice (and shortcuts to it), crime, punishment, and civil transactions; (5) Religion, including notices on diverse pantheons, rituals, priesthood, cultic paraphernalia, vows, ordeals, and channels to the gods (divination, dreams, and prophecy); and (6) Culture, including ethnic distinctions, class structure, and moments in the life cycle (birth, childhood, family life, health matters, death, and commemoration). Sasson’s presentation of the material brings to life a world entombed for four millennia, concretizes the realities of ancient life, and gives it a human perspective that is at once instructive and entertaining. The book is accompanied by extensive concordances and indexes (including to biblical passages) that will be useful to those who wish to study the letters more intensively.
Mari in Retrospect
Mari in Retrospect - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mari in Retrospect write by Gordon Douglas Young. This book was released on 1992. Mari in Retrospect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excavations in the Middle Euphrates Valley over the past fifty years have profoundly altered our understanding of the history of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. The discovery of Mari (Tell Hariri), with its extensive cuneiform library, is at the center of these developments. Originally presented at a joint annual meeting of the Middle West Branch of the American Oriental Society and the Midwest Region of the Society of Biblical Literature (held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago), the essays included in this book survey fifty years of Mari studies. Thirty-seven pages of indexes provide ready access to the wealth of information contained in these essays. Illustrated with photos and maps.
Letters to the King of Mari
Letters to the King of Mari - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letters to the King of Mari write by Wolfgang Heimpel. This book was released on 2003. Letters to the King of Mari available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new Mesopotamian Civilizations volume, Professor Heimpel collects the corpus of the Mari correspondence and provides an introduction, a reconstruction of events during Zimri-Lim's reign, and English translations of these Mari texts (26/1, 26/2, 27, and additional texts). This volume includes indexes of personal names/individuals, group designations/personnel, and places.
The Ikun-Pisa Letter Archive from Tell Ed-der
The Ikun-Pisa Letter Archive from Tell Ed-der - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ikun-Pisa Letter Archive from Tell Ed-der write by Rients de Boer. This book was released on 2021-04-21. The Ikun-Pisa Letter Archive from Tell Ed-der available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume sees the publication of fifty-six early Old Babylonian letters from ca. 1880 BCE. They were found by legendary Iraqi archaeologist Taha Baqir in 1941 at the site of Tell ed-Der, ancient Sippar-Amnanum, in central Iraq. The letters are written in an early dialect of Akkadian and are part of the archives of an ancient firm. This firm consisted of a number of families engaged in local agriculture, the manufacturing of textiles, crediting, and international trade. As such it was part of the same larger trade networks as those already known from the contemporary Old Assyrian archives found in central Turkey. The firm strived to have good relations with local Amorite rulers, such as Sumu-la-El, the first king of Babylon, and they used their own trading agents to represent them in far-away cities such as Mari. For these reasons, the letters are also an important source for Babylonia's political and socio-economic history.
The Shemshāra Archives
The Shemshāra Archives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shemshāra Archives write by Jesper Eidem. This book was released on 2001. The Shemshāra Archives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
