都市国家時代末期ラガシュにおける土地経営に関する綜観的・基礎的一研究-土地経営関係記録一覧表の作成-

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The documents referring to the operation of the land for barley crops which belonged to ‘dam-ensí’ or ^dBa-ba₆ were so much diversified than those of the barley-ration (še-ba) and barley-delivery (še-gar ziz-gar) that any comprehensive point of view regarding these sorts of dacuments has not been carried through up to now.
The present writes, then, in this paper, has tabulated 195 documents on which the name of field was mentioned with regard to some agricultural operation, and on which the historical date was fully recorded or of which we are somehow able to assess the date, in order to afford a foundation for finding out of a comprehensive point of view. Each of 195 documents makes one item of the table with the tablet-number (Ex. DP 601) in the first place, the key-word of the tablet at the right end, and other characteristic words below them. These 195 items are classified in four main groups, three of which are classified into Deimel's three categories (nig-en-na, Kur₆, and APIN·LAL), and they are arranged chronologically.
The accuracy of the chronological assessment of so many tablets (i. e. the items with *, **, *? at the right shoulder of the tablet-number on the table) would be the key to the success of this table and it would be secured by appearances of personal names, their combinations and the rhythm of the occurance of each field's name, especially at the first year of ensí and the first year of lugal under Urukagina.
The following three matters could be drawn as the direct results of this tabulation. (1) The inference that the cultivated land of ‘é-mí’ or ^dBa-ba₆ should be operated really by Deimel's three categories. (2) The facts that the documents relating to the operation of ‘níg-en-na’-land are overwhelmingly more numerous (134 among 195 tablets; that makes a little over two-thirds) and much more diversified in the sorts of documents than the other two. The operation of ‘níg-en-na’ land was one of the central problem of the land-system of ‘é-mí’. (3) The increase of reliability of the chronological supposition that the sixth year of Enentarzi should belong to the same calendar year as the first year of Lugalanda, and the seventh year of the latter same as the first ensí-year of Urukagina.
The successful framing of this sort of table would contribute to the application of the concept of ‘agricultural year’ or ‘agricultural cycle’ as a comprehensive point of view to these documents, together with more than forty lists of the chronologically arranged agricultural informations by field's name which the writer is preparing.