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Some Remarks On Conditions in the Assyrian Countryside *)

Some Remarks On Conditions in the Assyrian Countryside *) SOME REMARKS ON CONDITIONS IN THE ASSYRIAN COUNTRYSIDE *) BY J. N. POSTGATE (Baghdad) In 1901 C.H.W. Johns published an interesting group of texts from the archives of the Neo-Assyrian kings at Nineveh, under the title of 'An Assyrian Doomsday Book or liber censualis of the district round Harran, in the seventh century B.C.'. In contrast to some of his later work, Johns' copy of the texts was remarkably good, and with the edition he gave a full discussion of the evidence provided by the group of texts in differing spheres. No doubt partly because this edition was so thorough, the Doomsday Book has received little attention from scholars since then, apart from passing references. Only quite recently, with the quickening interest in Neo-Assyrian studies, have serious attempts been made once more to investigate these texts (they constitute an important part of the evidence in Dr. J. Zablocka's discussion of the agrarian conditions of the Neo-Assyrian empire, and are discussed also in G. van Driel, Bi.Or. XXVII 3/4 (1970) 173; V.A. Jakobson, in I.M. Diakonoff (ed.) Ancient Mesopotamia 277-29$; and in a forthcoming book by the reviewer 'Taxation and Conscription in the Assyrian Empire' Rome 1974). However, in 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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Brill
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© 1974 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0022-4995
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1568-5209
DOI
10.1163/156852074X00156
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SOME REMARKS ON CONDITIONS IN THE ASSYRIAN COUNTRYSIDE *) BY J. N. POSTGATE (Baghdad) In 1901 C.H.W. Johns published an interesting group of texts from the archives of the Neo-Assyrian kings at Nineveh, under the title of 'An Assyrian Doomsday Book or liber censualis of the district round Harran, in the seventh century B.C.'. In contrast to some of his later work, Johns' copy of the texts was remarkably good, and with the edition he gave a full discussion of the evidence provided by the group of texts in differing spheres. No doubt partly because this edition was so thorough, the Doomsday Book has received little attention from scholars since then, apart from passing references. Only quite recently, with the quickening interest in Neo-Assyrian studies, have serious attempts been made once more to investigate these texts (they constitute an important part of the evidence in Dr. J. Zablocka's discussion of the agrarian conditions of the Neo-Assyrian empire, and are discussed also in G. van Driel, Bi.Or. XXVII 3/4 (1970) 173; V.A. Jakobson, in I.M. Diakonoff (ed.) Ancient Mesopotamia 277-29$; and in a forthcoming book by the reviewer 'Taxation and Conscription in the Assyrian Empire' Rome 1974). However, in

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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the OrientBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1974

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