Unpublished Cuneiform Texts from the Archive of Zababa-šarra-ūṣur Related to the Estimated Yield of Date Fields
The research studies four unpublished cuneiform texts from the archive of Zababa-šarra-ūṣur dating back to the Late Babylonian period, during the reign of the Achaemenid’s king Darius I (521-486 BC) which related to the estimated yield of date fields belonging to Bīt rēdûti, the crown prince’s esta...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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2026
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | The research studies four unpublished cuneiform texts from the archive of Zababa-šarra-ūṣur dating back to the Late Babylonian period, during the reign of the Achaemenid’s king Darius I (521-486 BC) which related to the estimated yield of date fields belonging to Bīt rēdûti, the crown prince’s estate, the total number of texts associated with this content reached thirteen texts so far, nine of them were previously published. After studying this group of texts, we obtained information about how to estimate the crop of these fields and places of delivering the crop, in addition to the measuring devices and their capacities that are used to weigh it, and the additional tax that must be paid by farmers or tenants which is proportional to the amount of crop, as well as the locations of these fields which were located outside the town of Bīt-Abī-râm, furthermore the scribe who recorded most of these texts.
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