Widell, Magnus 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2825-8252
(2022)
<i>Ilum</i>-<i>asu</i>. A Scribe from Irisagrig.
ARCHIV ORIENTALNI, 90 (1).
pp. 25-39.
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Abstract
<jats:p>The aim of this article is to offer an overview of the administrative activities of the Ur III official Ilumasu and his family, who worked as scribes in the important administrative centre Irisagrig in southern Mesopotamia, during the final century of the third millennium BC. Ilumasu’s father Bibi provided foodstuff as rations to the female (sesame) oil pressers (mostly different types of birds and animals), and Ilumasu and his two brothers (Mašum and Ašgi-ibra) can all be attested as the recipients of provisions for this group of workers in the city, in some cases directly from their father. The activities of Ilumasu and his family of scribes illustrate the importance of familial affiliations and kinship groupings within the institutional economy of the Ur III state, and demonstrate that administrative roles within the public households often would transcend generations. The article argues that the institutional households of the Ur III state regularly relied on, and even took advantage of, existing hereditary structures and kinship ties within the society as a whole.</jats:p>
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ur III, Iri-Sagrig, Al-Sarraki, Ilum-asu, administration |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2022 13:43 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2023 14:06 |
| DOI: | 10.47979/aror.j.90.1.25-39 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3159213 |
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