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The Hittite Administration in Emar: The Aspect of Direct Control

Published/Copyright: January 4, 2007
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Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie
From the journal Volume 96 Issue 2

Abstract

Previous studies of the Emar texts dealing with the Hittite administration in Emar have clarified that although there was a strong Hittite presence in Emar, the Hittites ruled it as a vassal kingdom, using the principle of indirect control. While admitting this point, this paper discusses an aspect of the rule which has been almost ignored, i. e., the aspect of direct control. In this regard, it is significant to note that there were Emariote citizens who performed the Hittite obligations (e.g., giš.tukul-duty) for the Hittite king (of Carchemish) in exchange for landed property. This indicates that the Hittites employed some of the Emariotes as local staff; in other words, they partly adopted the policy of direct control in the administration of Emar. The incident of the ‘oppression’ of Zū-Ba'la, an Emariote diviner of high rank, in which a certain Hittite official named Alziyamuwa tried to take away his landed property and to impose the šaḫḫan- and luzzi-duties on him (SMEA 45-T 1; BLMJE 32), should be understood in this context.

Published Online: 2007-01-04
Published in Print: 2006-12-01

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ZA.2006.010

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Interpreting Early Akkadian Orthography: A Note on Pronominal Suffixes in Sargonic Akkadian
  2. Zu den Siegeln der Vorsteher der Opferschauer Nannazišaĝal und Enlilzišaĝal
  3. The Use of Wagons (eriqqum) in Ancient Anatolia According to Texts from Kültepe
  4. BM 29638: A New Ritual to Marduk from the Old Babylonian Period
  5. Ein Bronzedolch des Simbar-Šipak von Babylon (1025–1008) Überlegungen zu Waffenweihungen im Vorderen Orient
  6. The Hittite Administration in Emar: The Aspect of Direct Control
  7. Joins and Duplicates among the Bğazköy Tablets (1–10)
  8. Das Oberhaupt des westsemitischen Pantheons ohne Abbild? Überlegungen zur Darstellung des Gottes Dagan
  9. Buchbesprechungen
  10. Indices
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