Inhaltsangabe: Following the Man of Yamhad :

Parallelsachtitel:	Settlement and territory at Old Babylonian Alalah
1. Verfasser:	Lauinger, Jacob
Ort/Verlag/Jahr:	Leiden; Boston : Brill, 2015.
Umfang/Format:	xv, 447 pages ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe:	Culture and history of the ancient Near East v. 75
Schlagworte:	Akkadian language > Texts. Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. Land tenure (Assyro-Babylonian law) Alalakh (Extinct city) > Social conditions. Law > Turkey > Alalakh (Extinct city)

Inhaltsangabe:

Introduction: Aims of the book; Land tenure; Terminology; The responsibilities of owning a settlement; Previous research on owning settlements; What was a settlement?; What rights did the owner of a settlement enjoy?; Excursus: The word teqnitum; Structure of the book
Tablets and archives
Case studies
L'affaire d'Alahtum
Conditions of tenure
Yarim-Lim's domain
Conclusion: Summary and synthesis; Interpretive frameworks; A network of nodes and corridors?; A province or a personal estate?; An "amorite" polity?
Appendix 1: The chronology of Level VII Alalah
Appendix 2: Data sets
Appendix 3: Editions of translated Level VII texts.