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Working at Home in the Ancient Near East
Working at Home in the Ancient Near East brings together the papers and discussions from an international workshop organized within the framework of the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East held in Vienna in April 2016. The volume examines the organization, scale, and the socio-economic role played by institutional and non-institutional households, as well as the social use of domestic spaces in Bronze Age Mesopotamia. The invited speakers – archaeologists, philologists, and historians specializing in ancient Mesopotamia – who approached these topics from different perspectives and by analyzing different datasets were encouraged to exchange their views and to discuss methodological concerns and common problems.
This volume includes seven archaeological- and philological-oriented essays focusing on specific sites and archives, from northern Mesopotamia to southern Babylonia. The contributions assembled in the present volume seek to bridge the gap between archaeological records and cuneiform sources, in order to provide a more accurate reconstruction of the Mesopotamian economies during the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC.
Table of Contents
Working at Home in the Ancient Near New Insights and Avenues of Research – Juliette Mas and Palmiro Notizia
Working at Nuzi – Laura Battini
The Organization of Labor at Tell Beydar – Alexander Pruß
Oikoi and the State. Households and Production Evidence in 3rd Millennium BC Upper Mesopotamia – Juliette Mas
Reconstructing the Flow of Life and Work in Mesopotamian An Integrated Textual and Multisensory Approach – Paolo Brusasco
The House of Ur III Merchants in Their Non-Institutional Context – Steven J. Garfinkle
Wealth and Status in 3rd Millennium the Household Inventory RTC 304 and the Career of Lugal-irida, Superintendent of Weavers – Palmiro Notizia
Working at home, traveling Old Assyrian trade and archaeological theory – Gojko Barjamovic and Norman Yoffee
This volume includes seven archaeological- and philological-oriented essays focusing on specific sites and archives, from northern Mesopotamia to southern Babylonia. The contributions assembled in the present volume seek to bridge the gap between archaeological records and cuneiform sources, in order to provide a more accurate reconstruction of the Mesopotamian economies during the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC.
Table of Contents
Working at Home in the Ancient Near New Insights and Avenues of Research – Juliette Mas and Palmiro Notizia
Working at Nuzi – Laura Battini
The Organization of Labor at Tell Beydar – Alexander Pruß
Oikoi and the State. Households and Production Evidence in 3rd Millennium BC Upper Mesopotamia – Juliette Mas
Reconstructing the Flow of Life and Work in Mesopotamian An Integrated Textual and Multisensory Approach – Paolo Brusasco
The House of Ur III Merchants in Their Non-Institutional Context – Steven J. Garfinkle
Wealth and Status in 3rd Millennium the Household Inventory RTC 304 and the Career of Lugal-irida, Superintendent of Weavers – Palmiro Notizia
Working at home, traveling Old Assyrian trade and archaeological theory – Gojko Barjamovic and Norman Yoffee
124 pages, Paperback
Published July 31, 2020
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