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Provincial Administration in Babylonia Under the Second Dynasty of Isin1)

Provincial Administration in Babylonia Under the Second Dynasty of Isin1) PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION IN BABYLONIA UNDER THE SECOND DYNASTY OF ISIN1) BY J. A. BRINKMAN (Toronto) Babylonia shortly after the year 1160 B.C. was the scene of political upheaval. The non-Semitic Kassite dynasty after a reign of five hundred years was meeting its end at the hands of Elamite invaders from the east. When the weakened regime of the Kassites had finally collapsed, the hegemony of the land was taken over by a native Babylonian, Marduk-kabit-ahhesu, who founded the Second Dynasty of Isin. This royal line, comprising eleven kings in all, then controlled the country for a century and a quarter down to 1025 B.C. 2). We are afforded glimpses into the local administration of Babylonia during this time by means of occasional passages scattered throughout the kudurrus, contemporary legal documents dealing chiefly with land rights. Fortunately, during the reign of the Second Dynasty of Isin, we have enough such passages to enable us to attempt a preliminary reconstruction of the system of provincial government under the king. The seventeen kudurrus of the dynasty can be effectively supplemented where necessary both by the late Kassite kudurrus, which show the same administrative organization 3), and by isolated references in other http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

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© 1963 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4995
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1568-5209
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10.1163/156852063X00112
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PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION IN BABYLONIA UNDER THE SECOND DYNASTY OF ISIN1) BY J. A. BRINKMAN (Toronto) Babylonia shortly after the year 1160 B.C. was the scene of political upheaval. The non-Semitic Kassite dynasty after a reign of five hundred years was meeting its end at the hands of Elamite invaders from the east. When the weakened regime of the Kassites had finally collapsed, the hegemony of the land was taken over by a native Babylonian, Marduk-kabit-ahhesu, who founded the Second Dynasty of Isin. This royal line, comprising eleven kings in all, then controlled the country for a century and a quarter down to 1025 B.C. 2). We are afforded glimpses into the local administration of Babylonia during this time by means of occasional passages scattered throughout the kudurrus, contemporary legal documents dealing chiefly with land rights. Fortunately, during the reign of the Second Dynasty of Isin, we have enough such passages to enable us to attempt a preliminary reconstruction of the system of provincial government under the king. The seventeen kudurrus of the dynasty can be effectively supplemented where necessary both by the late Kassite kudurrus, which show the same administrative organization 3), and by isolated references in other

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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1963

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