Vitali Bartash
Biographic Data
| ID | 698670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vitali Bartash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vitali |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartash |
| SIGNATURE | BARTASH V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bonn |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2446-6716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Early Dynastic City of Abu Salabikh in Its Rural and Regional Setting
Beyond Slavery and Freedom in Ancient Mesopotamia
This special issue aims to move beyond the traditional binary of slavery and freedom in the study of ancient Mesopotamian societies. Legal texts have long shaped our understanding of social status in this region, but a broader approach incorporating diverse textual genres and diachronic comparison reveals a far more nuanced social landscape. The articles collected here argue that ethnic, legal, political, religious, and socioeconomic factors cont…
Muškēnum in Third-Millennium BC Mesopotamia
This article reexamines the origins and social status of the muškēnū ( maš.gag.en , etc., “those who prostrate themselves”) in ancient Mesopotamia. Previously thought of as commoners, analysis of third-millennium sources reveals them to be settled outsiders, distinct from citizens of the communities they inhabited. This precarious position necessitated protection from rulers or other powerful figures. Evidence suggests the Semitic Middle Euphrate…
Humans as Donations and the Question of Temple Slavery in Early Mesopotamia
This paper examines the practice of donating people to deities in southern Mesopotamia between 2600 and 2000 BC. It offers a diachronic analysis of Early Dynastic, Old Akkadian, and Ur III sources and considers Old and Neo-Babylonian evidence to address questions raised in Gelb’s (1972. “The Arua Institution.” RA 66: 1–32) foundational study. This paper demonstrates, first, that donors and recipients were rarely close relatives, as the dedicatees…
Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia. Confinement and Control until the First Fall of Babylon
Gudea's Iranian Slaves
Through philological and historical analysis focused on Gudea's slave dossier, this article elucidates the causes and mechanisms that brought Iranian slaves to early southern Mesopotamia. The slave dossier documents a brief but intensive influx of Elamite slaves to Lagash on the lower Tigris during the reign of Gudea, ca. 2130–2110 B.C., who fought the powerful polity of Anshan in Fars. The author argues that consequent political instability and …
Sargonic Cuneiform Tablets in the Real Academia de la Historia
Sargonic Cuneiform Tablets in the Real Academia de la Historia: The Carl L. Lippmann Collection. By Manuel Molina. Catálogo del Gabinete de Antigüedades. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia and Ministerio de Cultura de la República de Iraq, 2014. Pp. 317, 337 plts
Wissenskultur im Alten Orient
Wissenskultur im Alten Orient: Weltanschauung, Wissenschaften, Techniken, Technologien. Edited by Hans Neumann. Colloquien der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 4. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012. Pp. xi + 433, illus. €42
Coerced Human Mobility and Elite Social Networks in Early Dynastic Iraq and Iran
The article provides a historical analysis of cuneiform records concerning the circulation of unfree humans among the political-cultic elite in southern Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf during the Early Dynastic IIIb period, ca. 2475–2300 BCE. The analysis of the written data from the Adab city-state demonstrates that the royal house used the unfree as gifts to maintain a sociopolitical network on three spatial levels – the internal, local, and (…
Going for the Subarean Brand
Sumerian “Child
This article studies Sumerian terms for minors (dumu, di4-di4-la(2) and lu2 tur-ra) in texts of various genres to define their precise meaning and relationship to kinship and age-grade terminologies. The author argues that dumu is essentially a kinship term "son/daughter, one's own child, offspring," which lacks any age connotations. In contrast, di4-di4-la(2) designates children as an age grade. As in other languages, words for children as kinsh…
Children in Institutional Households of Late Uruk Period Mesopotamia
The article discusses references to children in cuneiform records from Southern Mesopotamia dating to the Uruk III/Jemdet Nasr period (ca. 3000 B. C.). They confirm the presence of infants and children among the personnel of institutional households. Documents offer two patterns of classifying humans. The first describes individuals as male or female and then distinguishes between adults, children and babies. The second disregards gender but offe…
Sumerian “Child
This article studies Sumerian terms for minors (dumu, di4-di4-la(2) and lu2 tur-ra) in texts of various genres to define their precise meaning and relationship to kinship and age-grade terminologies. The author argues that dumu is essentially a kinship term "son/daughter, one's own child, offspring," which lacks any age connotations. In contrast, di4-di4-la(2) designates children as an age grade. As in other languages, words for children as kinsh…
Going for the Subarean Brand
Children in Institutional Households of Late Uruk Period Mesopotamia
The article discusses references to children in cuneiform records from Southern Mesopotamia dating to the Uruk III/Jemdet Nasr period (ca. 3000 B. C.). They confirm the presence of infants and children among the personnel of institutional households. Documents offer two patterns of classifying humans. The first describes individuals as male or female and then distinguishes between adults, children and babies. The second disregards gender but offe…
Going for the Subarean Brand
Sumerian “Child
This article studies Sumerian terms for minors (dumu, di4-di4-la(2) and lu2 tur-ra) in texts of various genres to define their precise meaning and relationship to kinship and age-grade terminologies. The author argues that dumu is essentially a kinship term "son/daughter, one's own child, offspring," which lacks any age connotations. In contrast, di4-di4-la(2) designates children as an age grade. As in other languages, words for children as kinsh…
Coerced Human Mobility and Elite Social Networks in Early Dynastic Iraq and Iran
The article provides a historical analysis of cuneiform records concerning the circulation of unfree humans among the political-cultic elite in southern Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf during the Early Dynastic IIIb period, ca. 2475–2300 BCE. The analysis of the written data from the Adab city-state demonstrates that the royal house used the unfree as gifts to maintain a sociopolitical network on three spatial levels – the internal, local, and (…
Sargonic Cuneiform Tablets in the Real Academia de la Historia
Sargonic Cuneiform Tablets in the Real Academia de la Historia: The Carl L. Lippmann Collection. By Manuel Molina. Catálogo del Gabinete de Antigüedades. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia and Ministerio de Cultura de la República de Iraq, 2014. Pp. 317, 337 plts
Wissenskultur im Alten Orient
Wissenskultur im Alten Orient: Weltanschauung, Wissenschaften, Techniken, Technologien. Edited by Hans Neumann. Colloquien der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 4. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012. Pp. xi + 433, illus. €42
Gudea's Iranian Slaves
Through philological and historical analysis focused on Gudea's slave dossier, this article elucidates the causes and mechanisms that brought Iranian slaves to early southern Mesopotamia. The slave dossier documents a brief but intensive influx of Elamite slaves to Lagash on the lower Tigris during the reign of Gudea, ca. 2130–2110 B.C., who fought the powerful polity of Anshan in Fars. The author argues that consequent political instability and …
Beyond Slavery and Freedom in Ancient Mesopotamia
This special issue aims to move beyond the traditional binary of slavery and freedom in the study of ancient Mesopotamian societies. Legal texts have long shaped our understanding of social status in this region, but a broader approach incorporating diverse textual genres and diachronic comparison reveals a far more nuanced social landscape. The articles collected here argue that ethnic, legal, political, religious, and socioeconomic factors cont…
Muškēnum in Third-Millennium BC Mesopotamia
This article reexamines the origins and social status of the muškēnū ( maš.gag.en , etc., “those who prostrate themselves”) in ancient Mesopotamia. Previously thought of as commoners, analysis of third-millennium sources reveals them to be settled outsiders, distinct from citizens of the communities they inhabited. This precarious position necessitated protection from rulers or other powerful figures. Evidence suggests the Semitic Middle Euphrate…
Humans as Donations and the Question of Temple Slavery in Early Mesopotamia
This paper examines the practice of donating people to deities in southern Mesopotamia between 2600 and 2000 BC. It offers a diachronic analysis of Early Dynastic, Old Akkadian, and Ur III sources and considers Old and Neo-Babylonian evidence to address questions raised in Gelb’s (1972. “The Arua Institution.” RA 66: 1–32) foundational study. This paper demonstrates, first, that donors and recipients were rarely close relatives, as the dedicatees…
Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia. Confinement and Control until the First Fall of Babylon
The Early Dynastic City of Abu Salabikh in Its Rural and Regional Setting
Ancient Near East History (12 works) · History (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (5 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Mesopotamia (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works)