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Contents 8 Preface 12 Acknowledgments 15 List of Figures 17 List of Tables 18 Abbreviations 19 Chapter 1 Introduction 20 Aims of the Book 20 Land Tenure 26 Terminology 28 The Responsibilities of Owning a Settlement 32 Previous Research on Owning Settlements 36 What was a Settlement? 36 What Rights Did the Owner of a Settlement Enjoy? 44 Excursus: The Word Teqnītum 51 Structure of the Book 53 Chapter 2 Tablets and Archives 55 Introduction 55 The Corpus of Level VII Tablets 56 Defining the Corpus 57 Publication History and Status 58 Genre 60 Archives 63 The Chronological Distribution of the Tablets 69 Chapter 3 Four Case Studies 76 Introduction 76 Awirraše 78 Kunuwe 95 Murar 104 Emar 120 Conclusion 130 Chapter 4 L’affaire d’Alahtum 132 Introduction 132 The Letters Concerning Alahtum and Their Themes 134 The Purchase of Alahtum and the Organization of Its Population 137 Gašera’s Complaint 141 The Ugārum of Alahtum 145 Conclusion 150 Chapter 5 Conditions of Tenure 152 Introduction 152 AlT 1 [10.01], AlT 456 [10.02], and Genre 154 AlT 1 [10.01] as the Copy of an Inscription 156 AlT 456 [10.02] and Contracts for the Acquisition of Settlements 160 The Historical Narratives of AlT 1 [10.01

Author

Lauinger, Jacob

Published

2015

Language

EN