The House of Prisoners: Slavery and State in Uruk during the Revolt against Samsu-iluna

The House of Prisoners: Slavery and State in Uruk during the Revolt against
Samsu-iluna......Page 6
Contents......Page 10
List of tables......Page 17
Plans and maps......Page 18
List of abbreviations......Page 19
I “Why and How?”......Page 22
II Prisoners of war and the bīt asīrī in previous scholarship......Page 28
III Interpretations of the role of the bīt asīrī......Page 31
IV About this book......Page 36
V Cuneiform texts, conventions, principles of transliteration,
and related matters......Page 38
I Documents dated to Rīm-Anum and the archive of the
house of prisoners......Page 41
II Uruk during the Old Babylonian period......Page 47
III The revolts against Samsu-iluna and Rīm-Anum’s reign......Page 48
IV Year names, chronology and political history......Page 50
V Administrative records and political history......Page 57
V.2 Rīm-Anum’s second year......Page 63
VI Military activities......Page 65
VII The rebels according to the bīt asīrī sources......Page 68
VII.1 Daganma-ilum......Page 69
VII.2 Ilūni......Page 70
VIII Conclusion......Page 72
I General remarks......Page 76
III Flour allocation of the ana ĝešbun type......Page 78
III.1 Sealings......Page 79
III.2 Recipients of the allocation......Page 84
IV.1 šuku e₂ asīrī......Page 89
IV.2 ana šuku e₂ u aḫiātim......Page 90
IV.4 ana šuku (erin₂) mu-wa-ar-ba-tim......Page 91
IV.5 ana šuku lu₂ GN u aḫiātim......Page 92
V.1 Sealings......Page 93
V.2 Recipients of the ana si-la₂ allocations......Page 94
VII Other allocations......Page 96
VIII Comparative analysis of the various flour allocations......Page 99
IX Conclusion......Page 103
II Prisoners of war and slaves......Page 131
III Geographic provenance of prisoners and slaves......Page 133
IV Ties of personal dependency of prisoners and slaves......Page 141
V Status of prisoners and slaves......Page 148
VI Allocation of prisoners and slaves......Page 152
VII Conclusion......Page 159
I Concepts and sources......Page 163
II.1 The bīt asīrī......Page 167
II.2 The e₂-aĝrig......Page 170
II.4 The e₂-(munus-)uš-bar......Page 175
II.5 The e₂-mušen-hi-a......Page 179
II.6 The e₂-bur-saĝ......Page 180
II.7 Other houses......Page 183
III.1 The e₂-gal......Page 185
III.2 The (e₂-)ĝi₆-par₃......Page 186
III.3 The en-nu e₂-gal......Page 187
IV Conclusion......Page 188
I General remarks......Page 192
II.2 aĝrig (abarakkum)......Page 193
II.4 gu-za- la₂ (guzalûm)......Page 194
II.5 sukkal (šukkallum)......Page 195
II.6 ša₃-tam (šatammum)......Page 196
II.7 šabra (šabrûm)......Page 197
II.8 ugula asīrī......Page 198
II.9 ugula e₂ and ugula e₂-meš......Page 201
II.10 ugula e₂-mušen-hi-a......Page 202
II.11 ugula (e₂-)munus-uš-bar......Page 203
III.1 Personnel of the e₂-aĝrig......Page 204
III.2 Personnel of the e₂-uš-bar......Page 205
IV.1 Administrative personnel......Page 206
IV.2 Other professions and occupations......Page 207
V Personnel affiliated with temples......Page 219
VI.1 Seal inscriptions with the legend “servant of royal name”......Page 220
VI.2 Seal inscriptions with the legend “servant of divine name(s)”......Page 222
VI.3 Partially legible sealings......Page 224
VII Men without seals or titles from tablets from the Sîn-kāšid palace......Page 226
VIII Men without seals or titles presumably acting in an
official capacity......Page 228
IX Conclusion......Page 231
I General remarks......Page 235
II ugula MAR.TU......Page 238
III PA.PA......Page 243
IV aga₃-us₂ (rēdûm)......Page 244
VI Administrative officials in the army......Page 246
VI lu₂-kiĝ₂-gi₄-a......Page 248
VIII Other leadership posts from outside Uruk......Page 249
IX Conclusion......Page 255
I An exercise in fragmentology......Page 258
II Political history......Page 259
III The administration of Uruk under Rīm-Anum......Page 263
IV The bīt asīrī......Page 273
V State and slavery in Uruk during the revolt against Samsuiluna......Page 279
Catalogue of tablets edited in this volume......Page 285
Concordance: Tablets arranged alphabetically after the
Museum signature......Page 286
Transliterations and translations......Page 310
Appendix 2: Collations......Page 345
Appendix 3: Chronological catalogue of texts from Uruk dated to Samsuiluna
and Rīm-Anum......Page 364
Appendix 4: Catalogue of texts from Uruk dated
to Samsu-iluna and Rīm-Anum......Page 392
I List of Sumerian words and logograms and their Akkadian
and English renderings......Page 428
II Akkadian words and their Sumerian and logographic
renderings......Page 430
Bibliography......Page 432
1. Personal names......Page 448
2. Divine names......Page 452
3. Geographic names......Page 453
4. Akkadian words......Page 454
5. Sumerian words and sumerograms......Page 455
6. Cuneiform texts......Page 457