Life at the bottom of Babylonian society: servile laborers at Nippur in the 14th and 13th centuries B.C
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CONTENTS
Preface ................................................................................................. ix
List of Examples ................................................................................. xi
List of Figures .................................................................................... xiii
List of Tables ...................................................................................... xv
List of Abbreviations ......................................................................... xvii
Selected Rulers of Kassite Babylonia ............................................... xxi
Chapter One. Servile Laborers in a Favored Province................ 1
Introduction .................................................................................. 1
Prior Work ..................................................................................... 2
Current Approach ......................................................................... 5
Chapter Two. Sources .................................................................... 7
Introduction .................................................................................. 7
Process of Selection ...................................................................... 7
Terminology .................................................................................. 9
Simple Rosters ............................................................................... 14
Inspections ................................................................................ 15
Transfers of Personnel .............................................................. 18
Summaries ................................................................................. 20
Undetermined ........................................................................... 22
Remarks ..................................................................................... 23
Ration Rosters ............................................................................... 23
Barley or Oil Allocations as Rations (SE.BA and I.BA)
to Persons and Families (for Periods of Six Months
or Less?) ................................................................................. 25
Barley Allocations as Rations (SE.BA) to Persons
Divided into Tenestu Groups by Occupation
(Period Undetermined) ....................................................... 25
Barley Allocations for Various Purposes to Animals
and Humans by Location outside of Nippur
(Period Undetermined) ....................................................... 26
Barley Allocations as Rations (SE.BA) and Date
Allocations to Persons for Periods of More Than
Six Months ............................................................................ 27
Ration Allocation Summaries for Groups in a
Single Location, Including a Numerical
Personnel Census ................................................................. 27
Remarks ..................................................................................... 31
Purchases of Personnel ............................................................ 31
Purchases of Personnel in Groups .......................................... 31
Purchases of Single Individuals .............................................. 32
Miscellaneous Texts ...................................................................... 34
Concluding Remarks on Sources ................................................ 36
Chapter Three. Population: Sex, Age, Death, and Health ......... 37
Introduction .................................................................................. 37
The Data Base ................................................................................ 37
The Data and Their Limitations .................................................. 39
Problems of Preservation and Access .................................... 41
Chronology of the Statistical Corpus ..................................... 42
Problem of Personal Name Repetition .................................. 43
Groups as Recorded: A Caution ............................................. 47
Descriptive Statistics for the Worker Population ...................... 47
The Entries ................................................................................. 48
Males and Females ................................................................... 48
Demography, Statistics, and the Sex Ratio ............................ 50
Young versus Old ...................................................................... 53
Sex Ratio by Sex and Age Classification ................................ 56
The Dead (US, BA.US, and IM.US) ....................................... 58
The Blind (NU.IGI, IGI.NU.GAL, and NU) ......................... 60
The 111 (GIG) .............................................................................. 62
Travelers (KASKAL) ................................................................ 62
Concluding Remarks on Population .......................................... 63
Chapter Four. Family and Household ......................................... 65
Introduction .................................................................................. 65
The Families of BE 14 58 and Related Documents ................... 65
Identification of Family Units within the Text Corpus ............ 71
The Household .............................................................................. 76
Comparisons with Other Premodern Societies .................... 82
Slaves and Households ............................................................. 83
The Conjugal Family Unit ............................................................ 84
Conjugal Family Size and Composition ................................ 85
Single Mothers .......................................................................... 86
Polygyny ......................................................................................... 88
Death and Marriage ...................................................................... 90
Conclusions on Family and Household ..................................... 91
Chapter Five. Work, Flight, Origins, and Status ........................ 93
Introduction .................................................................................. 93
Organization of the Servile Labor Pool ..................................... 94
Tasks and Occupations of the Workers ...................................... 98
Administration and Supervision of Workers ............................ 102
Flight and Diminution of the Working Population .................. 104
Identification of Escapees in the Texts (ZAH or halaqu) .... 105
The Meaning of haldqu (ZAH) ............................................... 106
Basic Statistics on Runaways ................................................... 107
Circumstances of Flight ........................................................... Ill
Escape as a Cause of Work-Force Depletion ........................ 113
Recapture and Reassignment .................................................. 115
Confinement: Prisons and Fetters .......................................... 118
The Sandabakku and the King ................................................ 120
Origins and Civil Status ............................................................... 121
Origins ....................................................................................... 121
Civil Status ................................................................................. 129
Concluding Remarks on Work, Origins,
and Status ................................................................................... 132
Chapter Six. The Servile Work Force in Local and National
Perspective ..................................................................................... 135
Introduction .................................................................................. 135
Population Size and Proportion .................................................. 136
Nippur in its Spatial Context ....................................................... 138
Nippur in National Context ........................................................ 140
Future Research ............................................................................. 144
Appendix One. Selected Households from Middle Babylonian
Sources ........................................................................................... 147
Introduction .................................................................................. 147
Households .................................................................................... 151
Appendix Two. Size and Composition of Select Mobile
WorkGroups ................................................................................. 211
Introduction .................................................................................. 211
Size and Composition of Select Mobile Work
Groups (Table) .......................................................................... 213
Appendix Three. Sex and Age Classification of Attested
Occupations in Middle Babylonian Rosters .............................. 229
Select Bibliography ............................................................................ 233
List and Index of Cuneiform Sources ............................................. 245
General Index .................................................................................... 253
Index of Select Akkadian Words and Logograms........................... 266
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