Introduction: Aims of the book; Land tenure; Terminology; The responsibilities of owning a settlement; Previous research on owning settlements; What was a settlement?; What rights did the owner of a settlement enjoy?; Excursus: The word teqnitum; Structure of the book
Tablets and archives
Case studies
L'affaire d'Alahtum
Conditions of tenure
Yarim-Lim's domain
Conclusion: Summary and synthesis; Interpretive frameworks; A network of nodes and corridors?; A province or a personal estate?; An "amorite" polity?
Appendix 1: The chronology of Level VII Alalah
Appendix 2: Data sets
Appendix 3: Editions of translated Level VII texts.
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Following the Man of Yamhad : settlement and territory at Old Babylonian Alalah by Jacob Lauinger. ISBN 9789004290938. Published by Brill in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
