The Neo-Babylonian Records from Ur from the Hall Collection of the British Museum (Dubsar)

Radoslaw Tarasewicz presents editions of 65 hitherto unpublished records of Ur in southern Mesopotamia dating from the time of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid rulers. The edition comprises drawings, transcriptions, translations and philological notes. It is supplemented by extensive prosopographical and archival studies. Cover 1 Preface 6 Table of contents 8 Abbreviations 10 Bibliography and bibliographical abbreviations 12 1. Introduction 26 1.1. A brief history of Ur in the first millennium BC 27 1.2. Excavations at Ur 32 2. The texts 34 2.1. Typology 34 2.2. Chronology 38 2.2.1. Chronology and condition of the tablets 38 2.2.2. Chronological distribution of the texts 39 2.3. Seal impressions 40 2.4. Fingernails 41 2.5. Toponyms 44 2.5.1. Place names 44 2.5.2. Temples 45 2.5.3. Rivers and canals 45 2.6. Scribes and witnesses 47 2.6.1. Scribes 51 2.6.2. Witnesses 53 3. Archives 56 3.1. The Early Archive 57 3.2. The Imbia Archive 59 3.2.1. Records included in the archive with doubt 70 3.2.2. Summing up the Imbia Family 71 3.2.3. Relation of the Imbia Family with other familes 72 3.2.4. The members of the Imbia Family in UET 4 76 3.3. Records of an institutional background 84 3.4. Documents without connection to any archive 85 3.5. Poorly preserved records 86 4. Catalogue 90 5. Indices 94 5.1. Personal names 94 5.2. Family names 104 5.3. Divine names 105 5.4. Royal names 106 6. Text editions 108 6.1. Sale of inherited share to a brother 108 6.2. Gift of slaves, field and a house by husband to his wife 113 6.3. Gift of household equipment 120 6.4. Oath 122 6.5. Ēpišānūtu contract 126 6.6. Investigation before the deputy 127 6.7. Promissory notes 131 6.8. Imittu debt notes 148 6.9. Receipts 160 6.10. Accounts 167 6.11. Inventories 179 6.12. Note with fields description 190 6.13. Letters 191 6.14. Unidentified legal record 195 6.15. Unidentified records 198 Die Studie bietet Editionen von 65 bislang unpublizierten Urkunden aus der südmesopotamischen Stadt Ur aus der Zeit der neubabylonischen und achämenidischen Könige. Die Texte werden in Umzeichnungen, Umschriften, Übersetzungen und philologischen Kommentaren präsentiert. Ergänzt wird die Edition durch umfangreiche prosopographische und archivgeschichtliche Studien