Sklaverei und sklavereiahnliche Lebensformen nach altassyrischen KeilschriftquellenN

The study offers a comprehensive overview of slavery and its manifestations in the 19th and 18th centuries BC based on texts from the Old Assyrian site Kane/Kultepe. The term "slave" was deliberately defined broadly and openly because the terminology makes it impossible to determine whether a person described as a "wardum" was a permanent slave or a debt slave. Within Old Assyrian society, neither...