The Netherlands Institute for the Near East

Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten  -  Institut nĂ©erlandais du Proche-Orient

Das Archiv des Bel-Remanni

Book Specifications
VIII, 297 pp.
softcover
Plates: 68

Das Archiv des Bel-Remanni

1999  |  PIHANS Volume 86 ISBN 13: 978-90-6258-087-3  |  ISSN: 1571-5728

M. Jursa

The book presents a comprehensive treatment of a family archive originating from Neo-Babylonian Sippar complete with editions and handcopies of the texts. Among the subjects treated in the commentary are the prebendary system of the Ebabbar temple, various dues and taxes, and agriculture.
The archive is shown to exhibit strong traces of the activity of apprentice scribes; it can in fact be considered to be a 'school archive,' the setting of the 'school' being the archive owner's family. It is only part of a larger group, the other part of which is an archive of medical texts (also consisting mostly of school tablets) studied by Irving Finkel.