Communities and networks of legal or economic interaction in the Region of the Diyala during the Old Babylonian Period (2000-1600 AEC): the archive of Nur-Shamash

• Grant number: 21/01363-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: October 01, 2021
• End date: September 30, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Henrique Barbosa Gonçalves
• Grantee: Carlos Henrique Barbosa Gonçalves
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project is part of a research program on communities and networks of economic and legal interaction in ancient Mesopotamia, more precisely in the region of the Diyala river and dating to the Old Babylonian period (2000-1600 BCE). The object of this project is the so-called archive of Nur-Shamash, composed of 120 loan contracts of silver and barley and involving around 400 individuals. The goals of the project are to analyse the possibility of partitioning the community of Nur-Shamash into sub-communities, to assess the role of individuals that play more important roles in the cohesion of the network, and to study individual trajectories within this community. (AU)