| dc.contributor.author | Sasson, Jack M. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-11-16T15:43:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-11-16T15:43:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2002 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Sasson, Jack M. "The Burden of Scribes." Tzi Abusch, ed. Riches Hidden in Secret Places: Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen (2002): 211-28. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/3627 | |
| dc.description.abstract | "In memory of Thorkild Jacobsen, I dedicate this study of a "Mari" letter
(A.427 + M.8431) that Ibalpi-EI, one of Zimri-Lim of Mari's most trusted officers,
sent to the king. In it, Ibalpi-EI corrects information he had previously dispatched
on the identity of a city captured by Bunuma-Addu, king of Nihriya, a principal
locality in a confraternity of Benyaminite villages in the Balih region. My speculations
on the source of the error that was made during transmission will also permit
me to raise some issues about the way scribes handled correspondence and about
the behavior of royal agents monitoring provincial regions." | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Access provided with permission from the publisher, Eisenbraun. © 2002 All Rights Reserved. May not be copied or distributed without prior permission. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Eisenbrauns | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Akkadian language -- Texts. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Cuneiform tablets -- Mari (Extinct city) | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Scribes -- Middle East | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Mari (Extinct city) -- History -- Sources | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Zimri-Lim - King of Mari -- 18th cent. B.C. | en_US |
| dc.title | The Burden of Scribes | en_US |
| dc.type | Book chapter | en_US |
| dc.description.school | Divinity School | en_US |
