Studies in economics and administration of the Old Hittite Kingdom (ca. 1670–1425 BC) are strongly hindered by the paucity of documentary sources from this period. Moreover, unlike other civilizations of the Ancient Near East, the Hittites left us very few administrative and economic texts; none of them is private in character. We can only rely, therefore, on later copies of older texts that often display religious content. To disclose the function of an official profile of the Old Hittite kingdom (LÚ ABUBĪTUM), in this article, we combine the analysis of the extant Hittite sources with the information we glean from the documentation of an analogous administrator of the 18th century BC from Mari (abu bītim).
Power and economic administration at the dawn of the Hittite kingdom: A close look at LÚ ABUBĪTUM from a broad perspective / Vigo, Matteo. - In: AULA ORIENTALIS. - ISSN 0212-5730. - 41/1(2023), pp. 97-108.
Power and economic administration at the dawn of the Hittite kingdom: A close look at LÚ ABUBĪTUM from a broad perspective
Matteo VigoPrimo
Writing – Review & Editing
2023
Abstract
Studies in economics and administration of the Old Hittite Kingdom (ca. 1670–1425 BC) are strongly hindered by the paucity of documentary sources from this period. Moreover, unlike other civilizations of the Ancient Near East, the Hittites left us very few administrative and economic texts; none of them is private in character. We can only rely, therefore, on later copies of older texts that often display religious content. To disclose the function of an official profile of the Old Hittite kingdom (LÚ ABUBĪTUM), in this article, we combine the analysis of the extant Hittite sources with the information we glean from the documentation of an analogous administrator of the 18th century BC from Mari (abu bītim).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
