Neo-Babylonian society
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Recent papers in Neo-Babylonian society
Cuneiform documents dating from the eighth and seventh centuries B.C. (the early Neo-Babylonian period) reveal an emergent use of family names among the elite inhabitants of many of southern Mesopotamia's traditional cultic centers. In... more
This is a study of the attestations of various types of weapons in Neo-Babylonian texts, including prices and sporadic remarks on the manufacture of weapons.
The article gives an overview of terms for workers, servile dependents and juridical statuses in Babylonia in the first millennium BC with a focus on the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods (ca. 620 – 330 BC).
Administrative documents and letters from the Eanna archive were arranged in a dossier that elucidates the economic and social impact of several harvest failures that occurred in Babylonia during the first years of Cambyses’ reign. The... more
This article presents first editions of eight Neo- and Late Babylonian administrative documents in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, thereby completing the publication of the administrative documents in its collection. The documents... more
The article elucidates the function of the assertory oath in the evidentiary procedure in trial documents from the Neo-Babylonian and Early Achaemenid periods. Introduction: In einer Gesellschaft, die nicht am Eingreifen göttlicher... more
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La puerta de Ishtar, decorada ostentosamente, era una de las puertas de la ciudad de la antigua Babilonia. Fue construida en el siglo VI a. C. por el rey babilónico Nabucodonosor II. Todos los años, en la fiesta de Año Nuevo, las... more
La famille Ea-ilûta-bâni est une famille qui a vécu du VIIIe au Ve siècle av. J.-C. à Borsippa, en Mésopotamie. Plusieurs dizaines de tablettes d'argiles, datées de 687 à 486 av. J.-C., qui constituent les archives de cette famille, ont... more
Nippur expedition, while surveying the northern slopes of Tablet Hill in 2019 during the first season of excavations at Nippur after a 29-year hiatus. The fragment measures 3x3 cm. The tablet can be dated to the Neo-Babylonian period 2)... more
Some Observations about “Foreigners” in Babylonia during the VI Century BCE. IN: The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization. Melammu VII. Pro¬ceedings of the Sixth Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual He¬ritage Project,... more
Étude et commentaire des textes cunéiformes néo-babyloniens du Musée du Louvre publiés en copie par J.-M. Durand, Textes Babyloniens d'Époque Récente (Paris, ADPF 1981)
This is the link to the website of the NWO-funded project "Paying for All the King's Horses and All the King's Men: A Fiscal History of the Achaemenid Empire".