Life at the Bottom of Babylonian Society -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Examples -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Selected Rulers of Kassite Babylonia -- Chapter One. Servile Laborers in a Favored Province -- Introduction -- Prior Work -- Current Approach -- Chapter Two. Sources -- Introduction -- Process of Selection -- Terminology -- Simple Rosters -- Inspections -- Transfers of Personnel -- Summaries -- Undetermined -- Remarks -- Ration Rosters -- Barley or Oil Allocations as Rations (ŠE.BA and Ì.BA) to Persons and Families (for Periods of Six Months or Less?) -- Barley Allocations as Rations (ŠE.BA) to Persons Divided into Tenēštu Groups by Occupation (Period Undetermined). -- Barley Allocations for Various Purposes to Animals and Humans by Location outside of Nippur (Period Undetermined). -- Barley Allocations as Rations (ŠE.BA) and Date Allocations to Persons for Periods of More Than Six Months. -- Ration Allocation Summaries for Groups in a Single Location, Including a Numerical Personnel Census. -- Remarks -- Purchases of Personnel -- Purchases of Personnel in Groups -- Purchases of Single Individuals -- Miscellaneous Texts -- Concluding Remarks on Sources -- Chapter Three. Population: Sex, Age, Death, and Health -- Introduction -- The Data Base -- The Data and their Limitations -- Problems of Preservation and Access -- Chronology of the Statistical Corpus -- Problem of Personal Name Repetition -- Groups as Recorded: A Caution -- Descriptive Statistics for the Worker Population -- The Entries -- Males and Females -- Demography, Statistics, and the Sex Ratio -- Young versus Old -- Sex Ratio by Sex and Age Classification -- The Dead (ÚŠ, BA.ÚŠ, and IM.ÚŠ)58 -- The Blind (NU.IGI, IGI.NU.GÁL, and NU) -- The Ill (GIG) -- Travelers (KASKAL) -- Concluding Remarks on Population.

Chapter Four. Family and Household -- Introduction -- The Families of BE 14 58 and Related Documents -- Identification of Family Units within the Text Corpus -- The Household -- Comparisons with Other Premodern Societies -- Slaves and Households -- The Conjugal Family Unit -- Conjugal Family Size and Composition -- Single Mothers -- Polygyny -- Death and Marriage -- Conclusions on Family and Household -- Chapter Five. Work, Flight, Origins, and Status -- Introduction -- Organization of the Servile Labor Pool -- Tasks and Occupations of the Workers -- Administration and Supervision of Workers -- Flight and Diminution of the Working Population -- Identification of Escapees in the Texts (ZÁH or halāqu) -- The Meaning of halāqu (ZÁH) -- Basic Statistics on Runaways -- Circumstances of Flight -- Escape as a Cause of Work-Force Depletion -- Recapture and Reassignment -- Confinement: Prisons and Fetters -- The Šandabakku and the King -- Origins and Civil Status -- Origins -- Civil Status -- Concluding Remarks on Work, Origins, and Status -- Chapter Six. The Servile Work Force in Local and National Perspective -- Introduction -- Population Size and Proportion -- Nippur in its Spatial Context -- Nippur in National Context -- Future Research -- Appendix One. Selected Households from Middle Babylonian Sources -- Introduction -- Households -- Appendix Two. Size and Composition of Select Mobile Work Groups -- Introduction -- Size and Composition of Select Mobile Work Groups (Table) -- Appendix Three. Sex and Age Classification of Attested Occupations in Middle Babylonian Rosters -- Select Bibliography -- List and Index of Cuneiform Sources -- General Index -- Index of Select Akkadian Words and Logograms.