Reinhard Pirngruber
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4101382 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Reinhard Pirngruber |
| PRENOMES | Reinhard |
| SOBRENOME | Pirngruber |
| ASSINATURA | PIRNGRUBER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Canadian Nautical Research Society |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Sources at the end of the cuneiform era
The aim of this article is to discuss several groups of sources which are of special interest regarding the question of Mesopotamian identities after 539 bce, towards the end of the use of cuneiform writing. In this late period, several languages and scripts were in use in Mesopotamia; therefore, groups of Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, and Sumerian texts are discussed. The scripts used are Aramaic letters, cuneiform, and the Greek alphabet. A scholar…
State building and its reflection in private archives from first millennium BCE Babylonia
Slavery in Achaemenid-Period Babylonia
This paper argues for a historically grounded view of slavery in Achaemenid-period Babylonia by examining the life of one particular individual, Rībat son of Bēl-erība, an ardu of the Murašû family (whose archive spans c. 454–404 BCE ). In contrast to other studies which focus on the terminology or legal aspects of slavery, we examine the lived experience of Rībat. We do this in two ways. First, we study all of Rībat’s attested business ventures …
Nikolaus Leo Overtoom. “The Power-Transition Crisis of the 160s–130s BCE and the Formation of the Parthian Empire”
The article discusses the rise of the Parthians to power over large territories in the Middle East at the expense of their Seleucid rivals. The author borrows a framework from International Relations theory, namely (Offensive) Realism, to place the actions of the Parthian kings, in particular Mithridates I in their wider geo-political environment. While the resulting account is rather close to a traditional (positivist) political history, the exp…
Irene Madreiter, Udo Hartmann. “Women at the Arsacid Court”
This contribution provides a succinct summary of our (scarce) knowledge of Arsacid queens. The authors make a case for a rather limited role of women at court, with Mousa, a former concubine turned queen(-mother) constituting a conspicuous exception, and interpret the appearance of queens in date formulas in cuneiform documents and the Avrōmān parchments as a reflection of the importance of the royal family and dynastic principles. Marriage strat…
Robert Rollinger, Angelika Kellner. “Once more the Nabonidus chronicle (BM 35382) and Cyrus’ campaign in 547 BC”
This contribution re-assesses the broken toponym in the so-called Nabonidus chronicle, which refers to the goal of Cyrus’s war campaign in 547 BC and which has been variously identified as either Lydia or Urartu. The authors iterate that the connection with Lydia is based mainly on information gleaned from Greco-Roman sources of dubious chronological value, where Cyrus’ overthrow of Croesus’ empire is conventionally dated to the mid-540s BCE. The…
Rhyne King. “Taxing Achaemenid Arachosia
The author presents a novel assessment of some 270 objects, most of them carrying an inscription in Aramaic. These mainly mortars and pestles (and fragments thereof) made from green chert were, although produced in Arachosia, found in Persepolis. While the interpretation of the first editor, R. Bowman, of these items as ritual objects has never met with approval, their purpose has so far been elusive. By means of a quantitative analysis of the da…
John Hyland. “The Achaemenid Messenger System and the Ionian Revolt
Another roughly contemporary groups of tablets from Persepolis documents the exchange of Darius with a certain Mimina and may be relevant for the Ionian revolt as well; the author tentatively suggests that this official may have been the satrap of Cilicia
Julian Degen. “Deportationen zur Zeit der ersten persischen Eroberung Ägyptens. Kambyses’ Sicherungspolitik im Lichte hellenischer und achaimenidischer Quellen”
The contribution discusses Achaemenid deportation policies as exemplified by the case of the Egyptians. The central argument, based on readings of Herodotus and Ctesias, is that the central aim of the deportations in the aftermath of Cambyses’ conquest of the country was the stabilisation of Achaemenid rule. This was to be achieved by transplanting a significant number of the notoriously rebellious mákhimoi of Lower Egypt, local warlords, into th…
Yuval Levavi. “A peculiar taxation practice of Judean exiles in rural Babylonia and its possible connection to building activity in late sixth century Judah”
On the basis of a new reading of a hitherto misconstrued passage found in some legal records belonging to the so-called Āl-Yahūdu texts, this contribution argues that construction works undertaken in the province of Judah in the reign of Darius were partly financed by levies imposed on Judean deportees in rural central Babylonia (near Nippur). Specifically, the deportees mentioned in the pertinent texts belonged to the class of šušānus, semi-depe…
Caroline Waerzeggers. “Changing Marriage Practices in Babylonia from the Late Assyrian to the Persian Period”
This article analyses the development of marriage practices in Babylonian according to marriage agreements and other legal records, in particular texts relating to the dowry, from the neo-Assyrian to the Achaemenid period. It can be shown that a clear bifurcation of society is in evidence, and the old-established urban elites, priestly families, did not mingle with socially inferior strata (comprising groups of different economic means: the urban…
Minor Archives from First-Millennium Bce Babylonia
The present contribution provides full editions of all texts belonging to the archive of the Sipparean businessman Iššar-tarībi, who was active during the last years of the Neo-Babylonian kingdom and the early years of Achaemenid rule, as well as a brief discussion of its central features. It is part of a larger collaborative effort to make available the so-called “satellite archives” of the Ṣāḫiṭ-ginê A archive and related and unrelated smaller …
An Early Maššartu-List from the Eanna Temple in Uruk
This article presents editions of two maššartu lists from the Eanna-temple in Uruk now housed in the Yale Babylonian Collection and in the Princeton Theological Seminary. Not only are NCBT 660 and PTS 2232 among the very few completely preserved examples of such lists, they also belong to the earliest known specimens of their genre, dating to the third (602/1 BCE) and first (604/3 BCE) year of Nebuchadnezzar II. These texts are valuable additions…
The Historical Sections of the Astronomical Diaries in Context
The article addresses developments within the Astronomical Diaries, as regards their formal structure and the content of their historical sections, with a particular emphasis on ominous references. Although both the total number and length of historical sections increased significantly over time, the number of ominous references declined. A relationship can be posited between this development and on-going changes in the prevailing scientific worl…
Markets in pre-industrial societies
At least some ancient civilizations used various risk-management strategies to minimize price volatility. In this article, we examine one such strategy, grain storage, by means of a dataset recently made available that provides agricultural prices for Babylonia during the Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods (c.400–65 BCE). A comparative analysis of medieval England and Hellenistic Babylonia reveals a low level of inter-annual storage in both …
Prebend Prices in First-Millennium b.c . Babylonia
Markets in pre-industrial societies
At least some ancient civilizations used various risk-management strategies to minimize price volatility. In this article, we examine one such strategy, grain storage, by means of a dataset recently made available that provides agricultural prices for Babylonia during the Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods (c.400–65 BCE). A comparative analysis of medieval England and Hellenistic Babylonia reveals a low level of inter-annual storage in both …
Minor Archives from First-Millennium Bce Babylonia
The present contribution provides full editions of all texts belonging to the archive of the Sipparean businessman Iššar-tarībi, who was active during the last years of the Neo-Babylonian kingdom and the early years of Achaemenid rule, as well as a brief discussion of its central features. It is part of a larger collaborative effort to make available the so-called “satellite archives” of the Ṣāḫiṭ-ginê A archive and related and unrelated smaller …
Markets in pre-industrial societies
At least some ancient civilizations used various risk-management strategies to minimize price volatility. In this article, we examine one such strategy, grain storage, by means of a dataset recently made available that provides agricultural prices for Babylonia during the Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods (c.400–65 BCE). A comparative analysis of medieval England and Hellenistic Babylonia reveals a low level of inter-annual storage in both …
Prebend Prices in First-Millennium b.c . Babylonia
The Historical Sections of the Astronomical Diaries in Context
The article addresses developments within the Astronomical Diaries, as regards their formal structure and the content of their historical sections, with a particular emphasis on ominous references. Although both the total number and length of historical sections increased significantly over time, the number of ominous references declined. A relationship can be posited between this development and on-going changes in the prevailing scientific worl…
An Early Maššartu-List from the Eanna Temple in Uruk
This article presents editions of two maššartu lists from the Eanna-temple in Uruk now housed in the Yale Babylonian Collection and in the Princeton Theological Seminary. Not only are NCBT 660 and PTS 2232 among the very few completely preserved examples of such lists, they also belong to the earliest known specimens of their genre, dating to the third (602/1 BCE) and first (604/3 BCE) year of Nebuchadnezzar II. These texts are valuable additions…
Minor Archives from First-Millennium Bce Babylonia
The present contribution provides full editions of all texts belonging to the archive of the Sipparean businessman Iššar-tarībi, who was active during the last years of the Neo-Babylonian kingdom and the early years of Achaemenid rule, as well as a brief discussion of its central features. It is part of a larger collaborative effort to make available the so-called “satellite archives” of the Ṣāḫiṭ-ginê A archive and related and unrelated smaller …
Nikolaus Leo Overtoom. “The Power-Transition Crisis of the 160s–130s BCE and the Formation of the Parthian Empire”
The article discusses the rise of the Parthians to power over large territories in the Middle East at the expense of their Seleucid rivals. The author borrows a framework from International Relations theory, namely (Offensive) Realism, to place the actions of the Parthian kings, in particular Mithridates I in their wider geo-political environment. While the resulting account is rather close to a traditional (positivist) political history, the exp…
Irene Madreiter, Udo Hartmann. “Women at the Arsacid Court”
This contribution provides a succinct summary of our (scarce) knowledge of Arsacid queens. The authors make a case for a rather limited role of women at court, with Mousa, a former concubine turned queen(-mother) constituting a conspicuous exception, and interpret the appearance of queens in date formulas in cuneiform documents and the Avrōmān parchments as a reflection of the importance of the royal family and dynastic principles. Marriage strat…
Robert Rollinger, Angelika Kellner. “Once more the Nabonidus chronicle (BM 35382) and Cyrus’ campaign in 547 BC”
This contribution re-assesses the broken toponym in the so-called Nabonidus chronicle, which refers to the goal of Cyrus’s war campaign in 547 BC and which has been variously identified as either Lydia or Urartu. The authors iterate that the connection with Lydia is based mainly on information gleaned from Greco-Roman sources of dubious chronological value, where Cyrus’ overthrow of Croesus’ empire is conventionally dated to the mid-540s BCE. The…
Rhyne King. “Taxing Achaemenid Arachosia
The author presents a novel assessment of some 270 objects, most of them carrying an inscription in Aramaic. These mainly mortars and pestles (and fragments thereof) made from green chert were, although produced in Arachosia, found in Persepolis. While the interpretation of the first editor, R. Bowman, of these items as ritual objects has never met with approval, their purpose has so far been elusive. By means of a quantitative analysis of the da…
John Hyland. “The Achaemenid Messenger System and the Ionian Revolt
Another roughly contemporary groups of tablets from Persepolis documents the exchange of Darius with a certain Mimina and may be relevant for the Ionian revolt as well; the author tentatively suggests that this official may have been the satrap of Cilicia
Julian Degen. “Deportationen zur Zeit der ersten persischen Eroberung Ägyptens. Kambyses’ Sicherungspolitik im Lichte hellenischer und achaimenidischer Quellen”
The contribution discusses Achaemenid deportation policies as exemplified by the case of the Egyptians. The central argument, based on readings of Herodotus and Ctesias, is that the central aim of the deportations in the aftermath of Cambyses’ conquest of the country was the stabilisation of Achaemenid rule. This was to be achieved by transplanting a significant number of the notoriously rebellious mákhimoi of Lower Egypt, local warlords, into th…
Yuval Levavi. “A peculiar taxation practice of Judean exiles in rural Babylonia and its possible connection to building activity in late sixth century Judah”
On the basis of a new reading of a hitherto misconstrued passage found in some legal records belonging to the so-called Āl-Yahūdu texts, this contribution argues that construction works undertaken in the province of Judah in the reign of Darius were partly financed by levies imposed on Judean deportees in rural central Babylonia (near Nippur). Specifically, the deportees mentioned in the pertinent texts belonged to the class of šušānus, semi-depe…
Caroline Waerzeggers. “Changing Marriage Practices in Babylonia from the Late Assyrian to the Persian Period”
This article analyses the development of marriage practices in Babylonian according to marriage agreements and other legal records, in particular texts relating to the dowry, from the neo-Assyrian to the Achaemenid period. It can be shown that a clear bifurcation of society is in evidence, and the old-established urban elites, priestly families, did not mingle with socially inferior strata (comprising groups of different economic means: the urban…
Slavery in Achaemenid-Period Babylonia
This paper argues for a historically grounded view of slavery in Achaemenid-period Babylonia by examining the life of one particular individual, Rībat son of Bēl-erība, an ardu of the Murašû family (whose archive spans c. 454–404 BCE ). In contrast to other studies which focus on the terminology or legal aspects of slavery, we examine the lived experience of Rībat. We do this in two ways. First, we study all of Rībat’s attested business ventures …
Sources at the end of the cuneiform era
The aim of this article is to discuss several groups of sources which are of special interest regarding the question of Mesopotamian identities after 539 bce, towards the end of the use of cuneiform writing. In this late period, several languages and scripts were in use in Mesopotamia; therefore, groups of Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, and Sumerian texts are discussed. The scripts used are Aramaic letters, cuneiform, and the Greek alphabet. A scholar…
State building and its reflection in private archives from first millennium BCE Babylonia
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