The First Sealand Dynasty: Literacy, Economy, and the Likely Location of Dūr- Enlil(ē) in Southern Mesopotamia at the end of the Old Babylonian Period

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. The First Sealand Dynasty: Literacy, Economy, and the Likely Location of Dūr- Enlil(ē) in Southern Mesopotamia at the end of the Old Babylonian Period 9
5. The Settlement and Canal Systems During the First Sealand Dynasty (1721–1340 BCE) 28
6. Dispersed Communities of Practice During the First Dynasty of the Sealand: The Pottery from Tell Khaiber, Southern Iraq 58
7. Ur in the Kassite Period 88
8. Babylon in the Second Millennium BCE: New Insights on the Transitions from Old Babylonian to Kassite and Isin II Periods 125
9. Studies Concerning the Kassite Period Ekur of Nippur: Construction History and Finds 146
10. Grammatical Irregularities in Middle Babylonian Texts and their Chronology 165
11. The Kassites of Babylonia: A Re-examination of an Ethnic Identity 177
12. The Palace as Economic Production Unit in the Kingdom of the First Dynasty of the Sealand 190
13. Managing the Harvest in Kassite Babylonia: The Evidence for tēlītu 205
14. Turn! Turn! Turn! – A Kassite Administrative Term with a Legal Connotation 228
15. Abbreviations 253
16. Bibliography 255
17. Index 287