Grain Tribute in Hittite Syria and the Fall of Ugarit
This paper examines the term mānaḫātu in the letters from Hittite officials found at the House of Urtenu from Ugarit and recently published in the Ras Shamra-Ougarit 23 volume (RSO 23, Lackenbacher and Malbran-Labat 2016). This paper proposes that the exact meaning of mānaḫātu—in Ugaritic mnḥ(t)—dep...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2023
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2023, Volume: 389, Pages: 65-73 |
| Further subjects: | B
Administration
B Famine B Hatti B Diplomacy B Grain B mānaḫātu B Late Bronze Age collapse B Ugarit B tribute B vassal |
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| Summary: | This paper examines the term mānaḫātu in the letters from Hittite officials found at the House of Urtenu from Ugarit and recently published in the Ras Shamra-Ougarit 23 volume (RSO 23, Lackenbacher and Malbran-Labat 2016). This paper proposes that the exact meaning of mānaḫātu—in Ugaritic mnḥ(t)—depends on the context, since it was both a vassal tribute due to the empire by the Ugarit palace (consisting of vast amounts of grain staples) and a form of taxation imposed by the Ugarit palace on merchants and citizens of the kingdom at a local level. In addition, the letters concerning mānaḫātu reveal that the Hittite pressure on its vassal to meet its requirements likely contributed much to exacerbate the food shortage suffered by the kingdom of Ugarit, not long before its fall in the early 12th century b.c. |
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| ISSN: | 2769-3589 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/724269 |