The Price of the Fields At Nuzi
1979; Brill; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/156852079x00016
ISSN1568-5209
Autores Tópico(s)Archaeology and Historical Studies
ResumoI. As is well known, Nuzi archives have yielded a considerable amount of documents concerning transfers of real estate propertyfields in particular. The great number of researches in the last fifty years attests the interest raised by such rich and promising material. The fundamental problems concerning the regime of real estate property have been tackled mainly on the basis of texts dealing with transfers of immovables. At the same time, these documents stimulated an analysis of some of the most significant features of Nuzian society 1). A general survey of the relevant literature immediately shows great divergences in methodological approaches and, consequently, noticeable disagreements in working hypotheses and scientific results. In point of fact, I believe that we cannot do at present without the important results achieved by Soviet scholars (particularly N.B. Jankowska) 2), whose main merit was to suggest a convincing historical
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