Miglio Tribe and State

The Dynamics of International Politics and the Reign of Zimri-Lim
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3588-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 287 Seiten

Reihe: Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East

This book analyzes Zimri-Lim’s interactions with sovereigns from the Habur and with Yamut-bal and Numha tribal polities. It describes how Zimri-Lim’s disproportionate dependence on tribal connections left him vulnerable when these alliances began to falter in his tenth regnal year.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miglio, Adam E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents (page 5)
- List of Tables, Maps, and Illustrations (page 7)
- Note on Dates and the Citation of Texts and Editions (page 9)
- Symbols Used in Transcriptions (page 11)
- Acknowledgments (page 13)
- Ancient Politics: Approaching History at Mari (page 17)
- The study of ancient politics (page 17)
- Chronology and sources at Mari (page 23)
- Reading the letters from Mari (page 26)
- Design of the current work (page 36)
- Politics, the State, and Society (page 39)
- Politics, authority, and the state (page 39)
- A working definition of the state (page 46)
- State and tribe (page 58)
- Conclusion (page 68)
- A Dynamic Socio-Political Landscape: "Mari and the Land of Mobile Pastoralists" (page 71)
- Introduction (page 71)
- "King of Mari" (page 72)
- The genesis of a political tradition: the precursor to kingship at Mari (page 73)
- Kingship at Mari and the central Euphrates River Valley (page 77)
- The central Euphrates Valley and Zimri-Lim's state (page 84)
- Zimri-Lim and his mobile pastoralists (Hanum) (page 86)
- The tribes of Zimri-Lim's reign (page 91)
- Tribal solidarity, mobile pastoralism, and the construction of territoriality (page 92)
- "King of. the land of the mobile pastoralists" (hanum) (page 97)
- The Politics of 'enclosing nomadism' and sedentary-mobile pastoralist interactions (page 101)
- Simal mobile pastoralists' interactions along the central Euphrates (page 107)
- Simal mobile pastoralists' interactions with populations in the upper Jezira (page 111)
- Simal's interactions with mobile pastoralists in the land of Apum (page 115)
- Conclusion (page 123)
- Zimri-Lim's Conduct of International Politics (page 125)
- Introduction (page 125)
- The 'system' of international relations during Zimri-Lim's reign (page 127)
- Zimri-Lim and international relations with kings in the Habur (page 134)
- Zimri-Lim's relations with Kabiya of Kahat (page 136)
- Zimri-Lim's relations with Ibal-Addu, Shadum-Adal, and Adal-shenni (page 144)
- Inter-tribal politics and Hipsum (page 158)
- Simal-Yamina relations and the two Yamina revolts (page 172)
- Simal, Numha, and Yamut-bal relations during the first Yamina revolt and the beginning of the second Yamina revolt (page 175)
- Conclusion (page 200)
- The Beginning of the End: Zimari-Lim's War with Elam (page 203)
- The Beginning of the end? (page 203)
- Ethnicity, nationalism, and the Amurrite 'problem' (page 205)
- Reinterpreting Zimri-Lim's war with Elam (page 213)
- Simal Tribal networks and the war with Elam (page 214)
- The beginning of the end: the outcome of the events in the upper Jezira (page 235)
- A concluding proposal: The end of Mari and the looting of the 'archives' at Mari (page 244)
- Conclusion (page 251)
- Bibliography (page 257)
- Index (page 281)