Lecture
Small Souls: Family Fortunes in Old Babylonian Nippur
- Anne Goddeeris (Ghent University)
- Date
- Wednesday 14 June 2017
- Time
- Location
- Matthias de Vrieshof
Matthias de Vrieshof 4
2311 BZ Leiden - Room
- 004a
As in other Old Babylonian cities, real estate constitutes the major asset of the family estate, but in the religious capital, temple offices offer a means of wealth and prestige. However, the practice of partitive inheritance does not allow to keep a family fortune together over the generations. During my talk, I will illustrate this phenomenon, and how it can be bypassed, on the basis of some family archives.
