PART I: INTRODUCTION

PART II: SETTING THE STAGE

1 GEOGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK

2 TEXTUAL FRAMEWORK

2.1 Acquisition and Discovery of the Tablets

2.2 Physical characteristics of the tablets

2.3 Text Groups and Intertextuality

2.4 Text Typology

2.4.1 Promissory notes

2.4.2 Sales

2.4.2.1 Sale records for arable land

2.4.2.2 Promissory Notes Resulting from Sales

2.4.2.3 Uncertain

2.4.3 Land farming agreements (lease and sharecropping)

2.4.4 Prebend Leases

2.4.5 Receipts

2.4.6 Bird keeping agreement

2.4.7 Partition wall agreement

2.4.8 Cancellation of debt notes

2.4.9 Undetermined contract types

3 MAIN ACTORS

3.1 Â-nād 

3.2 Sons of Â-nād

3.3 Grandsons of Â-nād

3.4 Great-grandsons of Â-nād

PART III: THE RURAL LANDSCAPE OF ŠĀṬIR

1 THE AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF ŠĀṬIR

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The Land

1.3 The Actors

1.3.1 Holders of Royal Land Grants

1.3.2 Holders of Bow-land

1.3.3 The Temple as Landholder

1.3.4 Local Residents (as Landowners and Farmers ?)

1.4 The Agricultural Landscape in Historical Perspective

2.THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF ŠĀṬIR

2.1 Onomasticon

2.1.1 Key Features

2.1.2 West-Semitic Names

2.1.3 Iranian and Elamite Names

2.1.4 Absence of family names

2.1.5 Onomastic trends in fifth century BCE Šāṭir and Uruk

2.2 Aramaic Notations

2.2.1 Structure and Content

2.2.2 Palaeography and the Question of the Scribes

2.2.3 Personal Names

2.2.4 Aramaic words

2.2.5 The Aramaic Notations: their Scribes and Raison d’être

2.3 Seals and Seal-Bearers

2.4 Cuneiform Scribes

2.5 Religion and Cult

PART IV: CONCLUSIONS

PART V: TEXT EDITIONS

INDICES

Name Index- Aramaic Notations

Name Index- Cuneiform Texts

Fragmentary and broken names

CONVENTIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY