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This booklet offers with the home of prisoners (bit asiri ) on the urban of Uruk throughout the insurrection opposed to king Samsu-iluna of Babylon, Hammurabi’s son. The political heritage of this short interval (ca. 1741–1739 BC) isn't really well known and before there was no finished remedy of the bit asiri. This ebook contains autograph copies, transliterations, and translations of forty two unpublished cuneiform drugs from quite a few collections, collations, and designated tables and catalogues. The research contains a few 410 records dated or caused by king Rim-Anum, one of many insurgents who attained relative independence because the ruler of Uruk. The learn of this corpus unearths information about diplomatic dealings among the vital energy and insurgent rulers, in regards to the functioning of the home of prisoners of warfare, and in regards to the people who participated in numerous echelons of the neighborhood management. This monograph investigates what sort of association “the apartment of prisoners” was once, the way it labored, the way it interacted with different associations, the composition of its hard work strength, and nation administration of captive and enslaved participants.
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There are, in addition, periods that are very poorly documented and this certainly impedes our comprehension not only of historical processes but also of basic facts, such as chronological matters. Those difficulties are particularly evident concerning the Old Babylonian period, for which there is a lack of sources. During this time, the city experienced long spells of political domination by other kingdoms. The scarcity of documentary evidence is an obstacle to our understanding of the placement of kings in chronological order.
In other words, these documents were scattered in different collections and have been put back together into a meaningful archive through the work of generations of Assyriologists. ” This man appears in the vast majority of documents and gives archival coherence to the lot. According to the extant tablets currently known to me, 317 records belong to the archive. The transactions registered in these documents served as the basis for dividing them into two groups: allocation of flour and management of prisoners and slaves.
Another edition of sixteen flour records from the British Museum followed (Rositani 2009). Finally, Marten Stol (2004, 790–793) briefly mentioned this Uruk archive in his survey of prisoners of war during the Old Babylonian period. His evidence further includes the Code of Hammurabi and examples from other places such as Sippar and Mari. He has pointed out that besides the syllabic writing a-si-ru and the pseudo-Sumerian a - s i -r um (apparent from the expression e₂ a- si -r u m instead of e ₂ a-si-ri) common in the Uruk archive, tablets from Sippar show the word written a l- d ab ₅- ba in Sumerian (Stol 2004, 791).