Land ownership in Assyrian times (Master Thesis)

Abstract

It is a study that sheds light on the reality of land ownership in the northern part of Mesopotamia through studying and analyzing the available cuneiform texts during the Middle Assyrian and modern eras. As this study came in five chapters, the first chapter included the emergence and development of land ownership in the country of Assyria, since the emergence of the first agricultural villages until the later Assyrian eras. Shaqi, Al-Sakl, Wal-Sartan, some other rulers, the lands of arrow-bearers, and aid lands, while the third chapter included the temple lands, including the lands granted to him by the king personally and the lands granted by the king to specific persons in exchange for a cut-off percentage of the land production offered as sacrifices to the temple and the lands devoted to him by Some individuals, as for the fourth chapter, it dealt with talking about private lands and explaining the methods of their transmission between people through inheritance, sale and mortgage, and the fifth and final chapter dealt with taxes on agricultural lands and their exemptions, which are taxes of hay and grains or agricultural crops in general and forced labor services, and a statement of their status In sales, mortgage and lease contracts.