Book
Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
University of Chicago Press • Chicago • Published In 2010 • Pages:
By: Charpin, Dominique, Todd, Jane Marie.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study focuses on writing style, composition of tablets, scribal life, archives, and legal documents such as contracts, property deeds and transfers, treaties, custom receipts, legal codes, and edicts during the Old Babylonian period (though also ranging back to the ca 2000 BC origins of its Amorite Dynasty).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Information sources listed in other works
- Historical and archival research
- Comparative evidence
- Dissemination of news and information
- Writing
- Archives
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Chief executive
- Administrative agencies
- Taxation and public income
- Contracts
- Peacemaking
- Texts translated into english
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Babylonians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1894–1595 BC
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iraq, eastern Syria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Dominique Charpin ; translated by Jane Marie Todd
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-175) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2009052457
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Diplomatics, Cuneiform--Iraq--History
- Law, Assyro-Babylonian--Language
- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian
- Cuneiform writing--History