Adoption in Old Babylonian Nippur and the Archive of Mannum-mešu-liṣṣur
Elizabeth C. Stone and David I. Owen, and with John R. Mitchell
Adoption in Old Babylonian Nippur and the Archive of Mannum-mešu-liṣṣur
Elizabeth C. Stone and David I. Owen, and with John R. Mitchell
In a primarily diachronic study of the adoption texts from Old Babylonian Nippur, the authors examine the contexts and purposes of adoption. As a result, a number of motivations for adoption are uncovered, including both economic (property exchange) and social (family-oriented) functions. Along with discussion of the source materials, fifty-three of the pertinent texts are published in transliteration and translation, including some heretofore unpublished texts. The volume includes a text concordance, prosopographic index, copies of 12 texts, and 63 plates.
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In a primarily diachronic study of the adoption texts from Old Babylonian Nippur, the authors examine the contexts and purposes of adoption. As a result, a number of motivations for adoption are uncovered, including both economic (property exchange) and social (family-oriented) functions. Along with discussion of the source materials, fifty-three of the pertinent texts are published in transliteration and translation, including some heretofore unpublished texts. The volume includes a text concordance, prosopographic index, copies of 12 texts, and 63 plates.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Lists of Tables, Figures, and Symbols
List of Plates
Adoption in Old Babylonian Nippur by Elizabeth C. Stone
Additions to the Old Babylonian Archive of Mannum-mesu-lissur in the Olin Library, Cornell University by David I. Owen
Adoption Texts from Nippur: Transliteration and Translation, Texts 1-53 by Elizabeth C. Stone and David I. Owen
Concordance of Texts
Prosopographic Index to the Mannum-mesu-lissur Archive by John R. Mitchell
Copies of Cornell Texts in the Mannum-mesu-lissur Archive by David I. Owen
Plates 1-63
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