essay
Household and family in early Mesopotamia
state and temple economy in the ancient near east : proceedings of the international conference organized by the katholieke universiteit leuven from the 10th to the 14th of april 1978 • Leuven • Published In 1979 • Pages: 1-99
By: Gelb, Ignace J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Gelb uses the various meanings of Sumerian words, personal names, sales contracts, the Manishtushu Obelisk (Maništušu Obelisk), and other ancient documents to shed light on geneology and household structure. Gelb discusses both private and public households (such as households of the temple and the king) and nuclear and extended families.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Buying and selling
- Personal names
- Household
- Extended families
- Executive household
- Congregations
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Dynastic Mesopotamia
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Early dynastic period
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mesopotamia; Iran and Itaq
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ignace J. Gelb
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-97)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80484837
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iraq--Civilization--To 634