マリ王室文書における Ration System
1974 年 17 巻 2 号 p. 27-48,178
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1974 年 17 巻 2 号 p. 27-48,178
The ration system in Mari involves regular distribution of three basic commodities, barley, oil and wool as well as in the times of the second half of the 3rd Millennium with its four main epigraphic divisions, Fara, pre-Sargonic, Sargonic and Ur III, and also in Mari we find many kinds of other irregular rations distributed among the military men, the corvées in harvest, canals and clipping with their regular rations.
The corvée workers and ration system dominated the socio-econmic life of Mari all through the periods from Yasmah-Addu, vice king of Mari, son of Šamši-Addu to Zimri-Lim in his whole life time.
Beginning with the Old Babylonian period, the term for the semifree disappeared, but in Mari nomad played the leading role in the ration system. Pastoral land and agricultural land were closely interwoven in Mari with a natural tendency toward symbiosis between nomad and sedentary and therefore, the two economies complemented one the other. Usual distinction between the realm of the nomad and that of the sedentary does not apply in Mari.
