Following the Man of Yamhad : Settlement and Territory at Old Babylonian Alalah.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Aims of the Book -- Land Tenure -- Terminology -- The Responsibilities of Owning a Settlement -- Previous Research on Owning Settlements -- What was a Settlement? -- What Rights Did the Owner of a Settlement Enjoy? -- Excursus: The Word Teqnītum -- Structure of the Book -- Chapter 2 Tablets and Archives -- Introduction -- The Corpus of Level VII Tablets -- Defining the Corpus -- Publication History and Status -- Genre -- Archives -- The Chronological Distribution of the Tablets -- Chapter 3 Four Case Studies -- Introduction -- Awirraše -- Kunuwe -- Murar -- Emar -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 L'affaire d'Alahtum -- Introduction -- The Letters Concerning Alahtum and Their Themes -- The Purchase of Alahtum and the Organization of Its Population -- Gašera's Complaint -- The Ugārum of Alahtum -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Conditions of Tenure -- Introduction -- AlT 1 [10.01], AlT 456 [10.02], and Genre -- AlT 1 [10.01] as the Copy of an Inscription -- AlT 456 [10.02] and Contracts for the Acquisition of Settlements -- The Historical Narratives of AlT 1 [10.01] and 456 [10.02] -- Conclusion: Revocable and Irrevocable Tenure -- Chapter 6 Yarim-Lim's Domain -- Introduction -- The Historical Geography of AlT 456 [10.02] -- The Territorial Kingdom of Alalah-Mukiš in the Late Bronze Age -- Yarim-Lim I's Landholdings before the Rebellion -- Yarim-Lim I's Landholdings after the Rebellion -- Territorial Noncontiguity -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Summary and Synthesis -- Interpretive Frameworks -- A Network of Nodes and Corridors? -- A Province or a Personal Estate? -- An "Amorite" Polity? -- Appendix 1 The Chronology of Level VII Alalah -- Introduction -- When Did Level VII Begin? -- When Did Level VII End?.

How Many Generations of the Kings of Yamhad are Attested in the Level VII Texts? -- How Many Generations of the Rulers of Alalah are Attested in the Level VII Texts? -- Conclusion -- Appendix 2 Data Sets -- Detailed Summary of the Level VII Documentation on Settlements and Other Immovable Property -- The Corpus of Level VII Texts -- Appendix 3 Editions of Translated Level VII Texts -- AlT 1 [10.01] -- AlT 7 [20.01] -- AlT 7A [20.01A] -- AlT 11 [20.05] -- AlT 11A [20.05A] -- AlT 33 [30.05] -- AlT 41 [20.06] -- AlT 42 [30.10] -- AlT 52 [22.01] -- AlT 53 [22.02] -- AlT 53A [22.02A] -- AlT 54 [22.03] -- AlT 55 [22.04] -- AlT 56 [22.05] -- AlT 58 [22.06] -- AlT 63 [22.11] -- AlT 64 [22.12] -- AlT 78 [23.05] -- AlT 79 [23.03] -- AlT 96 [21.04] -- AlT 98d [22.13] -- AlT 119 [51.03] -- AlT 120 [51.04] -- AlT 270 [60.01] -- AlT 271 [43.04] -- AlT 320 [43.02] -- AlT 321 [43.03] -- AlT 322 [30.12] -- AlT 348 [42.12] -- AlT 357 [42.13] -- AlT 368 [51.05] -- AlT 455 [20.08] -- AlT 456 [10.02] -- UF 36: 81 [20.10] -- UF 36: 96 [21.05] -- UF 36: 123 [22.15] -- UF 36: 125 [22.19] -- UF 36: 136-37 [23.06+23.06A] -- UF 38: 121 [43.12] -- References -- Index of Texts -- Index of Words Discussed -- Index of Proper Nouns.

In Following the Man of Yamhad, Jacob Lauinger offers the first book-length study of the cuneiform texts from Bronze Age Alalah that record the purchase or exchange of entire settlements and the socio-economic practice these texts document.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.