Some Comments on Archive Keeping at Mari
1972; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 34; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/4199931
ISSN2053-4744
Autores Tópico(s)Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
ResumoIn approaching the problem of Archive keeping at Mari, it might be profitable to inspect, at the outset, the archaeological evidence.On doing so, one is immediately struck firstly by the heterogeneous arrangement of objects in storage and secondly by the apparent lack of a noticeable system in organizing the archives.A spot check of other second millennium palaces which produced appreciable quantities of texts reveals this observation to be generally applicable.l In almost every major segment of the Mari palace, a cluster of chambers, really store-rooms, contained a collection of tablets, varying in size.In addition, a text or two would be uncovered here and there at unexpected quarters.For this scattering, Hammurapi's victorious troops were often blamed.This accusation is contradicted, however, by the evidence, documented with archival tags, that after its initial victory, Babylon attempted to preserve Mari's archives under a modicum of order. 2In the south-east section of the palace, dubbed by Parrot as the" Eastern" and " Workshops and Store-rooms" Quarters, at least twelve chambers sheltered tablets, many of which dated to the days of Yabdun-Lim and his (son (?) and) successor Siimii-Yamam.On the opposite end, tablets were found in four rooms and in one large chamber of the Administrative Quarters.More to the centre of the palace, and around the vast open courtyard no.106, the largest proportion of tablets were stored.Rooms I 15 to the east, I 10 to the north-west, and 108 to the west came the
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