Ur III Texts in the Schøyen Collection /

Ur III Texts in the Schøyen Collection / / Jacob L. Dahl.

Judging from the sheer amount of textual material left to us, the rulers of ancient Ur were above all else concerned with keeping track of their poorest subjects, who made up the majority of the population under their jurisdiction. Year after year, administrators recorded, in frightening detail, the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Dahl, Jacob L.,
MitwirkendeR:
Owen, David I.,
Schøyen, Martin,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology ; 39
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Statement of Provenance
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Preface
  • Conventions
  • Abbreviations
  • Catalog
  • Concordances
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Archival Documents
  • 3. Timekeeping
  • 4. Accounts
  • 5. Equivalencies
  • 6. Accountability
  • 7. Receipts: The Primary Documents
  • 8. Administration of Work
  • 9. Letters
  • 10. Messenger Texts.
  • 11. Legal Texts
  • 12. Miscellaneous Texts
  • Appendix. Transliterations of Long Texts from Chapter 8: Worker Inventories
  • References
  • Indexes

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