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Part I: The Ilia A archive
1 Introduction
1.1 Chronology and background
1.1.1 Chronological periodization
1.1.2 The “long sixth century”
1.1.3 Borsippa
1.2 Neo-Babylonian sources
1.2.1 Archival texts
1.2.2 Status quaestionis
1.3 The Ilia A archive as a case study
2 The Ilia A archive and the Ilia A family
2.1 The Ilia A archive
2.1.1 The tablets and the history of their acquisition
2.1.2 A dead archive?
2.2 The Ilia A family
2.2.1 The first two generations
2.2.2 The third, fourth and fifth generation
2.2.2.1 The branch of Šulāya
2.2.2.2 The branch of Šāpik-zēri
2.2.2.3 The branch of Itti-Nabû-balāṭu
2.3 Marduk-šumu-ibni
3 The content of the Ilia A archive
3.1 Inheritance, Marriages and Dowries
3.1.1 The inherited patrimony
3.1.2 Unions: married couples in the Ilia A archive
3.1.3 Dowry items: material culture
3.2 The prebendary activities
3.2.1 The brewer’s college of Ezida and their cultic duties
3.2.2 The prebends of the family and their management
3.3 Land
3.3.1 The Borsippean landscape
3.3.2 The estate of the Ilia A family
3.3.2.1 Ḫanšû-plots
3.3.2.2 Properties around the Nār-eššu
3.3.2.3 Properties in the area “below the city” (Šupāl-āli)
3.3.2.4 Properties in Tamirtu-ša-Nabû-damqa
3.3.2.5 Properties in Birīt-aṣūnē and “Town of Bīt-Zēria”
3.3.2.6 Productivity of the land and cultivation trends
3.3.3 The social network
3.3.3.1 Families with ties to the temple
3.3.3.1.1 Allānu (ērib bīti)
3.3.3.1.2 Aqar-Nabû
3.3.3.1.3 Bēliaˀu family
3.3.3.1.4 Ḫuṣābu family
3.3.3.1.5 Ilia family
3.3.3.1.6 Itinnu family
3.3.3.1.7 Kudurrānu family
3.3.3.1.8 Naggāru family
3.3.3.1.9 Nappāḫu family
3.3.3.1.10 Ṣāhit-ginê family
3.3.3.2 Families without ties to the temple
3.3.3.2.1 Bābūtu family
3.3.3.2.2 Mušēzibu family
3.3.3.2.3 Nabû-šeme family
3.3.3.2.4 Rīšûˀa family
3.3.3.2.5 Ṣilli-uṣur family
3.3.4 Catalog of the plots owned by the Ilia family
3.4 Immovable properties
3.4.1 Houses
3.4.1.1 Houses owned by the family in Borsippa
3.4.1.2 Houses in the countryside: the “Town of Marduk-šumu-ibni”
3.4.1.3 Summary on rental data
3.4.1.4 Other houses mentioned in the archive
3.4.2 Other buildings
3.4.2.1 Storehouses/workshops (bīt šutummi)
3.4.2.2 Storehouses for produce (ḫaṣāru)
3.4.2.3 Reed hut (ḫuṣṣu)
3.4.2.4 Granary (kalakku)
3.4.2.5 Grain storeroom (karû)
3.5 Slaves and other laborers with subordinate status
3.6 Silver: debts and business interests
3.6.1 Debts of Šulāya
3.6.2 Debts owed by Marduk-šumu-ibni
3.6.3 Unpaid and paid debts owed to Marduk-šumu-ibni
3.6.4 Business interests in Bāb-nār-Šamaš
3.6.5 The monetary portfolio of the Ilia A family
3.7 Taxes and other institutional payments
3.7.1 Taxes in the Ilia A archive
3.7.1.1 urāšu-obligation
3.7.1.1.1 The upiyātu-foodstuff
3.7.1.2 Military service (qaštu)
3.7.1.3 Fees related to land ownership: gugallu and gugal barsip
3.7.1.3.1 The gugal barsip
3.7.1.4 Royal custom duties: the “Harbor master” (rab kāri)
3.7.1.5 Gate toll (abullu)
3.7.1.6 Rations paid by the Ezida temple to the king
3.7.1.7 “Tithe of Bēl”
3.7.1.8 Varia
3.7.1.9 Boats
3.7.2 Rations to the Egypto-Carian community
3.7.2.1 The dossier
3.7.2.2 Temporal distribution and registration of the payments
3.7.2.3 The Egypto-Carians mentioned in the dossier
3.7.2.4 The rations
3.7.2.5 Summary
3.7.3 Bricks
3.8 Miscellaneous texts, scribal activity and seals
3.8.1 Miscellaneous texts
3.8.1.1 Bronze cooking vessel
3.8.2 Scribal activity of Marduk-šumu-ibni
3.8.3 Sealed tablets
4 A “long-sixth-century” archive?
4.1 The Neo-Babylonian period: from Nabopolassar to Nabonidus
4.2 The early Achaemenid period: from Cyrus to Cambyses
4.3 The early Achaemenid period: from Darius I to the end of the archive
4.4 Conclusions
Part II: The Ilia A texts
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