ORIENTALIA LOVANIENSIA ANALECTA
Xerxes and Babylonia
The Cuneiform Evidence
edited by CAROLINE WAERZEGGERS and MAARJA SEIRE
PEETERS XERXES AND BABYLONIA: THE CUNEIFORM EVIDENCE
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XERXES AND BABYLONIA
The Cuneiform Evidence
edited by
CAROLINE WAERZEGGERS and MAARJA SEIRE
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ABBREVIATIONS ...... VII
CAROLINE WAERZEGGERS Introduction: Debating Xerxes’ Rule in Babylonia . . . . . 1
REINHARD PIRNGRUBER Towards a Framework for Interpreting Social and Economic Change in Babylonia During the Long 6th Century BCE ...... 19
MAŁGORZATA SANDOWICZ Before Xerxes: The Role of the Governor of Babylonia in the Administration of Justice Under the First Achaemenids . . . . 35
MICHAEL JURSA Xerxes: The Case of Sippar and the Ebabbar Temple . . . . . 63
KARLHEINZ KESSLER Uruk: The Fate of the Eanna Archive, the Gimil-Nanāya B Archive, and Their Archaeological Evidence ...... 73
CAROLINE WAERZEGGERS The Network of Resistance: Archives and Political Action in Baby- lonia Before 484 BCE ...... 89
MATHIEU OSSENDRIJVER Babylonian Scholarship and the Calendar During the Reign of Xerxes ...... 135
JOHANNES HACKL The Esangila Temple During the Late Achaemenid Period and the Impact of Xerxes’ Reprisals on the Northern Babylonian Temple Households ...... 165
PAUL-ALAIN BEAULIEU Uruk Before and After Xerxes: The Onomastic and Institutional Rise of the God Anu ...... 189
ABBREVIATIONS
ADOG Abhandlungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft ADRT 1 A.J. Sachs and H. Hunger, Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. I: Diaries from 652 B.C. to 262 B.C. (ADRT 1), Vienna 1988. ADRT 2 A.J. Sachs and H. Hunger, Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. II: Diaries from 261 B.C. to 165 B.C. (ADRT 2), Vienna 1989. ADRT 5 H. Hunger, Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. V: Lunar and Planetary Texts (ADRT 5), Vienna 2001. ADRT 6 H. Hunger, Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. VI: Goal-Year Texts (ADRT 6), Vienna 2006. AfO Archiv für Orientforschung AHES Archive for History of Exact Sciences AJSL American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures AMI Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran Amherst A. Ungnad, “Neubabylonische Privaturkunden aus der Sammlung Amherst”, AfO 19 (1959–1960), 74–82. AnOr Analecta Orientalia AnOr 8 P.A. Pohl, Neubabylonische Rechtsurkunden aus den