Managing the harvest: The administration of agricultural production in Kassite Babylonia

管理收获：巴比伦卡西特农业生产的管理

• 批准号: 278641349
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Elena Devecchi
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Assyriologie und Hethitologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/278641349?language=en
• 关键词: Managing; harvest; administration; agricultural; production

The proposed project aims at examining centralized harvest management in Babylonia between the second half of the 14th century and the end of the 13th century BC through an analysis of published and unpublished cuneiform tablets from the religious and political capital Nippur, as well as from a still unidentified town, which must have been a major administrative centre. In spite of the centrality of this subject for the reconstruction of ancient Near Eastern economic and social history, the mechanisms of managing cereals and other agricultural products during the long Kassite or Middle Babylonian era (ca. 1475-1155 BC) have previously been largely neglected in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, so that the potential of this research area remains far from being exhausted. The current project seeks to address this deficit and aims at studying these very mechanisms in order to understand how during the Kassite period the central administration exercised its interest in and control over agricultural production. In this way, substantial lacunae in the assessment and understanding of Babylonian economic history in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC can be filled, thus allowing the well-documented Kassite period to be integrated fully into current research on economy and administration of the ancient Near East.

该项目旨在通过分析来自宗教和政治首都尼普尔的已出版和未出版的楔形文字平板，以及来自一个尚未确定的城镇（一定是主要的行政中心）的已出版和未出版的楔形文字，研究14世纪下半叶至公元前13世纪末巴比伦尼亚的集中收获管理。尽管这一主题在古代近东经济和社会历史的重建中处于中心地位，但在古代近东研究中，在漫长的喀西特或中巴比伦时代（公元前1475-1155年）管理谷物和其他农产品的机制在很大程度上被忽视了，因此这一研究领域的潜力还远远没有耗尽。目前的项目旨在解决这一缺陷，并旨在研究这些机制，以便了解在喀斯特时期中央行政当局如何行使其对农业生产的利益和控制。通过这种方式，可以填补对公元前2000年下半叶巴比伦经济史的评估和理解方面的实质性空白，从而使文献翔实的喀西特时期得以充分整合到当前对古代近东经济和行政的研究中。