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AN UNPUBLISHED NUZI-TYPE ANTICHRETIC LOAN CONTRACT IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM; WITH SOME COMMENTS ON CHILDREN IN THE KINGDOM OF ARRAPḪE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2016

Josué J. Justel  and
Daniel Justel
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Abstract

The paper presents the edition of cuneiform tablet BM 102353, from Yorġān Tepe (ancient Nuzi). Though various scholars have examined the document, and information about its content has been partially distributed, it is the first time that copy, transliteration and thorough commentaries are provided. The text presumably was written during the fourth generation of Teḫip-Tilla's family. It is an antichretic contract in which a young girl is lent, and therefore some comments on children in the documentary evidence from the Kingdom of Arrapḫe are in order.

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IRAQ , Volume 77 , December 2015 , pp. 129 - 142
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© The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2015 

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University of Alcalá, Department of History and Philosophy (Ancient History). This paper has been written thanks to a Ramón y Cajal contract (ref. 2013–13817), granted by the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Competitiveness. I thank the Trustees of the British Museum for permission to publish the text, B. Lion (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3) for her many suggestions, as well as Ch.W. Hess (Freie Universität Berlin) for checking the English. I would also like to thank M.P. Maidman (York University), who kindly revised the final manuscript and shared with me his own collations of BM 102353, bringing countless improvements to its copy, transcription and interpretation. All shortcomings, of course, are mine alone.

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