Court Officials at Umma in Ur III Times

Court management in Safavid and Ottoman government: Comparative study of the Safavid Īshīk Āghāsī Bāshī dīwān authorities and duties with similar officials in the Ottoman court

Managing Safavid court was mostly under the control of one of the four high-ranking Safavid officials called Īshīk Āghāsī Bāshī dīwān. This court official had several subordinates for managing court affairs and duties like holding court parties and assemblies, welcoming special guests and foreign ambassadors, managing harem, and protecting court. In this research, the roles and duties of this h...

Regulating Dairy Productivity in the Ur III Period*

* The following is an expanded version of a paper a.,:;vered at the 41st Rencontre assyria/a" gique internationale in Berlin on 6 July 1994. 1 The technological considerations made here owe much to the correspondence and to the collegial discussions in particular at the 1993 meeting of the Sumerian Agriculture Group in Wassenaar, Holland I have enjoyed with Michael Teuber, former director of th...

Contents Modelling of Neo-Sumerian Ur III Economic Text Corpus

This paper describes a system for processing economic documents written in the ancient Sumerian language. The system is application-oriented and takes advantage of the simplicity of ancient economy. We have developed an ontology for a selected branch of economic activities. We translate the documents into a meaning representation language by means of a semantic grammar. The meaning representati...

Notes on Ur III Period Textile Tablets from Ur1

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Forensic work and nonforensic clinicians part III: testifying in court.