The Organization of Crafts in Third Millennium Babylonia: The Case of Potters

Altorientalische Forschungen

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 232-253

  Steinkeller, Piotr ^a  

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EID: 85012279624     PISSN: 02328461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/aofo.1996.23.2.232     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. “The Organizational Context of Specialized Craft Production in Early Mesopotamian States,” Research in Economic Anthropology 14 [1993] 29-59
2. “Tell Leilan ‘sila bowls’ and the Akkadian Reorganization of Subarian Agricultural Production,” Orient-Express 1992/2, 16-23.
3. Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence, Oxford 1994, 141-166.
4. See H. Waetzoldt, Untersuchungen zur neusumerischen Textilindustrie, Rome 1972.
5. See H. Limet, Le travail du métal au pays de Sumer au temps de la IIIe dynastie dʼnUr, Paris 1960.
6. See M. Van De Mieroop, Crafts in the Early Isin Period: A Study of the Isin Craft Archive from the Reigns of Isbi-Erra and Su -ilisu, (OLA 24) Leuven, 1987;
7. M. Sigrist, Le travail des cuirs et peaux à Umma sous la dynastie dʼnUr III, JCS 33 [1981] 141-190.
8. See M.-Th. Barrelet, Le problème du nom sumérien du potier, RA 58 [1964] 1-8.
9. WO 6 [1971] 7-41.
10. MC 4 no. 26.
11. 7 dug-lahtan(LAK-453) /i-BÁHAR / a-rá 3-kam (ITT 1 1401:1-3); 6 dug-lahtan /I-BÁHAR/ a-rá 6-kam (Donbaz-Foster 58:1-3). Other, but less informative, Sargonic texts dealing with pots are ITT 5 9307; MC 4 no. 32; Limet Documents 50.
12. See Steinkeller in Labor in the Ancient Near East, ed. by. M. A. Powell, (AOS 68), New Haven, 1987, 97-98.
13. See SNAT 340 cited below n. 39.
14. MVN 14 523 (AS 6); BIN 5 177 (AS 7); Yildiz-Gomi 1700 (AS 9), 1733 (5S 1).
15. Yildiz-Gomi 1675 (AS 6). But note that a clear match is provided by JCS 25 (1973) 176, dating to AS 7, in which the same In-sag 5-sag 5 likewise receives 30 ovens for the kitchen, and Text B ix 19, dating to the same year, recording (undoubtedly the same) 30 ovens.
16. ki-su7 igi é-duru5 a-sag4-lá-mah-ta (MCS 2, p. 22 BM 105581); ki-su7 gu-la a-sag4-lá-mah-ta (Jones-Snyder 170); [ki-suy] a-sag4 dNin-ur4-ra-ta (CCTB 2); see above nn. 36 and 44.
17. E. g., Al-lu (A-IU5) and his son Lu-ib-gal (CCTB 2 58:2-3; Jones-Snyder 170; Rochester 158 i 11; JCS 31 [1979] 238 no. 9:3), and Lú-dUtu and his son É-mah-ki-dùg (CCTB 2 58:5-6; Rochester 158 i 12). See also above nn. 18, 20, 21, 25, 16, 28, and 43.
18. MCS 2, p. 22 BM 105581, cited above n. 36.
19. See the preceding note and compare the data collected in I. J. Gelb, AOAT 25, p. 197;
20. Steinkeller, FAOS 17, p. 134 table 4;
21. Waetzoldt and M. Sigrist, Hallo AV, pp. 275 and 277.
22. See M. Loding, A Craft Archive from Ur (unpubl. Phd diss., University of Pennsylvania, (1974).
23. For example, the (é-)mar-sa, “boat-houses,” which operated at Lagash, Umma, and Ur. See Neumann, Handwerk p. 75, p. 92 n. 493, pp. 96, 141.
24. See Van De Mieroop, Crafts in the Early Isin Period.