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636 — c. 259

638 — с. 94, 124

639 — c. 239

640 — с. 104, 114

643 — с. 122

661 — с. 94, 122, 345

662 — с. 238

665 — с. 239

666 — с. 234, 236

673 — с. 123

675 — с. 238

681 — с. 94

687 — с. 91

689 — с. 94, 124

694 — с. 238

697 — с. 94

705 — с. 248

706 — с. 238

707 — с. 238

708 — с. 364

709 — с. 94

710 — с. 94

714 — 716 — с. 248

717 — с. 238, 248

719 — с. 237

721 — с. 231

722 — с. 230

730 — с. 230

731 — с. 230

732 — 767 — с. 371

774 — с. 239

792 — с. 93

793 — с. 78, 102, 103, 193, 342

796 — с. 94, 97

798 — с. 94

804 — с. 94, 122

805 — с. 94, 122

816 — с. 98, 122

821 — 833 — с. 93

834 — с. 257

835 —

840 — с. 93

846 — с. 93

847 — с. 93, 97

848 — с. 94, 122

857 — с. 238

863 — с. 236

865 — с. 239

867 — с. 94

868 — с. 371

872 — с. 94

873 — с. 263

874 — с. 94

882 — с. 233

883 — с. 259

UET VI, 1 1 — с. 82, 90, 94, 264

2 — с. 71

3 — с. 71

9 — с. 90

26 — с. 241

54 — с. 264, 363

66 — с. 264

67 — с. 264

70 — с. 361

73 — с. 82

101 — 107 — с. 264

111 — с. 94

114 — с. 241

118 — с. 264

UET VI 2, 159 -

164 — с. 132

167 — с. 133

170 — с. 233

172 — с. 233

208 — 387 — с. 130

213 — с. 130

256 — с. 130

262а — с. 241

298 — с. 130

302 — с. 130

308 — с. 130

UET VI 2, 339 — с. 241

240 — 350 — с. 130

364 — с. 30, 129

379 — с. 130

386 — с. 129

419 — с. 264

UET VII, 92 — с. 264

100 — с. 264

101 — с. 264

116 — с. 241

UET VIII, 20 — с. 101

190 — с. 264

YBT (YOS) V, 46 — с. 233

47 — с. 233

50-53 — с. 237

122 — с. 234

207 — с. 233

YBT (YOS) X, 46 — с. 199

50 — с. 199

51 — с. 199

SUMMARY

This book, Men of Ur by I. M. Diakonoff, is one in a series devoted to the different aspects of life in Old Babylonia and specifically in the Kingdom of Larsa which preceded Hammurapi's kingdom as the leading state of Mesopotamia in the 19th — 18th centuries В. C. The work, mainly based on Ur Excavation Texts V by H. H. Figulla and A. J. Martin, aims at drawing a picture of Old Babylonian everyday life. The city of Ur was one of the three or four important cities in the Kingdom of Larsa, a seaport and the centre of the cult of the great Moon-God Na

The present book is not the first devoted to Old Babylonian Ur. It was preceded by Foreign Trade in the Old Babylonian Period by W. F. Leemans (1960), and by Le clergé d'Ur au siècle d'Hammurabi by D. Charpin 1986). However, Leemans' book is concerned only with foreign traders and specifically with only one household in Ur, and Charpin's, mainly with priests, and not so much in their daily life as in their priestly activities. The present book was finished in 1983, and while it was with the publishers, the author could gratefully make use of some of Charpin's findings: but the three books do not actually overlap in any important degree. On the contrary, all] three are mutually complementary and draw a more comprehensive picture of Ur in the Old Babylonian period than any one of them.

A more detailed history of the Kingdom of Larsa can be found in another book in this series, Ancient Larsa. Sketches of Economic Life, by Nelly Kozyreva (Puss., 1988). Therefore, the text of the present book contains only a short Historical Introduction (Chapter I), and then the following chapters:

Chapter II. The People in the of Mesopotamia: their appearance. It treats of the clothes and fashions, furniture, utensils, food, mores and ma

III. The City of Ur under the Sons of Kudurmabug. Kudurmabug was a half-Amorite, half-Elamite nomad chieftain who managed to overthrow the ruling dynasty of Larsa. He did not, however, assume royal power but enthroned in Larsa his son WaradSīn (1826–1823) and, after the latter's death, his second son, RīmSīn (1822–1763) who proved to be a successful and energetic ruler. The chapter is devoted to a hypothetic reconstructive description of the city of Ur, its streets and buildings, under WaradSīn and RīmSīn, based on the results of L. Woolley's excavations and some relevant texts. The reconstruction differs in several respects from that of the excavator who was influenced by the image of modern commercial cities, on the one hand, and modern Iraqi cities, on the other. Thus, certain isolated rooms found along the narrow streets of Ur were interpreted by Woolley as shops, in spite of the fact that they lacked places for storing wares and privies for the salesmen. From texts we know, however, that city dwellers owned sheep, and that they had to be driven into the city before the city-gates were shut at sunset. Woolley's «shops» are actually sheep-cots. We have been able to establish that some blocks of buildings at Ur housed extended families; also other important corrections to the existing archaeological interpretations are suggested.

To this chapter is appended the excursus IIIa: Identification of houses where the documents were found. It contains a list of the houses on the AH site, with corresponding find and publication numbers of tablets and some other objects, and the names of the probable inhabitants. The compiling of this list was fraught with serious difficulties. The find numbers were often inscribed by archaeologists at a date later than the find itself, many objects (including tablets) had lost their provenance, a considerable number of tablets of no longer known but different provenance were listed under a single number (U. 17249), although in some cases their real origin can still be established by prosopographic means; some numbers were given twice to different tablets. The number of tablets mentioned in L. Woolley's text as found at a given place of the excavation site is often greater then that which can be inferred from the catalogue of the finds; also the place of the find as mentioned by the author is often suspect. Information in the earlier publications does not tally with that in the final one.

Objects different from tablets were not numbered together with the tablets but in separate series unco