About the mātum in Early Second Millennium Middle Euphrates Region. The Royal Inscriptions of Yahdun-Lîm

The Mari archives show the conspicuous presence of social groups committed to a mobile way of life in early second millennium Syria, but these never constituted an element foreign to settled farmers in the river valleys. If taken as different populations, one should recognize anyways that they were...

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Autor principal: Barreyra Fracaroli, Diego
Formato: Artículo revista
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Publicado: Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2019
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Siria
Archivos de Mari
dominios socio-politicos
Syria
Mari Archives
socio-political domains
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Archivos de Mari
dominios socio-politicos
Syria
Mari Archives
socio-political domains
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Mari Archives
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About the mātum in Early Second Millennium Middle Euphrates Region. The Royal Inscriptions of Yahdun-Lîm
topic_facet Siria
Archivos de Mari
dominios socio-politicos
Syria
Mari Archives
socio-political domains
author Barreyra Fracaroli, Diego
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title About the mātum in Early Second Millennium Middle Euphrates Region. The Royal Inscriptions of Yahdun-Lîm
title_short About the mātum in Early Second Millennium Middle Euphrates Region. The Royal Inscriptions of Yahdun-Lîm
title_full About the mātum in Early Second Millennium Middle Euphrates Region. The Royal Inscriptions of Yahdun-Lîm
title_fullStr About the mātum in Early Second Millennium Middle Euphrates Region. The Royal Inscriptions of Yahdun-Lîm
title_full_unstemmed About the mātum in Early Second Millennium Middle Euphrates Region. The Royal Inscriptions of Yahdun-Lîm
title_sort about the mātum in early second millennium middle euphrates region. the royal inscriptions of yahdun-lîm
description The Mari archives show the conspicuous presence of social groups committed to a mobile way of life in early second millennium Syria, but these never constituted an element foreign to settled farmers in the river valleys. If taken as different populations, one should recognize anyways that they were only ideal vectors that came from the same social milieu. In tune with this overall view of landscape, modern scholarship no longer assigns tribal characteristics exclusively to mobile groups, but instead understands a tribal socio political mode as a manner of resolving tensions in societies with signi cant mobile pastoralist components. Hence, apparently different social groups belonged to the same political entities and owed allegiance to the same authorities. The question now arises as to whether distinct cultural identities springing from the same socio-political soil need to be explained by the correlated existence of a single political unit encompassing them all (kingship) or we can see alternative ways of establishing social ties across distance. In early settings where expansionary kingship projects were still absent in the Middle Euphrates region, tribal identities seem to have offered an alternative or rather a complement to local urban citizenship, as we know from earliest Mari royal inscriptions. The matum category is used there for the first time to refer to socio-political entities on their own, not necessarily subordinate to larger polities.This work discusses the precise meaning of this term as used in the royal inscriptions of Yahdun-Lim.
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spelling I15-R225-article-562023-05-26T22:42:39Z About the mātum in Early Second Millennium Middle Euphrates Region. The Royal Inscriptions of Yahdun-Lîm Acerca del mātum durante el II milenio temprano en la región del Éufrates medio. Las inscripciones de Yahdun-Lîm Barreyra Fracaroli, Diego Siria Archivos de Mari dominios socio-politicos Syria Mari Archives socio-political domains The Mari archives show the conspicuous presence of social groups committed to a mobile way of life in early second millennium Syria, but these never constituted an element foreign to settled farmers in the river valleys. If taken as different populations, one should recognize anyways that they were only ideal vectors that came from the same social milieu. In tune with this overall view of landscape, modern scholarship no longer assigns tribal characteristics exclusively to mobile groups, but instead understands a tribal socio political mode as a manner of resolving tensions in societies with signi cant mobile pastoralist components. Hence, apparently different social groups belonged to the same political entities and owed allegiance to the same authorities. The question now arises as to whether distinct cultural identities springing from the same socio-political soil need to be explained by the correlated existence of a single political unit encompassing them all (kingship) or we can see alternative ways of establishing social ties across distance. In early settings where expansionary kingship projects were still absent in the Middle Euphrates region, tribal identities seem to have offered an alternative or rather a complement to local urban citizenship, as we know from earliest Mari royal inscriptions. The matum category is used there for the first time to refer to socio-political entities on their own, not necessarily subordinate to larger polities.This work discusses the precise meaning of this term as used in the royal inscriptions of Yahdun-Lim. Los Archivos de Mari muestran la notoria presencia de grupos sociales con un modo de vida móvil en la Siria de la primera mitad del segundo milenio, pero estos grupos jamás constituyeron un elemento extraño a los agricultores sedentarios de los valles fuviales. Si se los entendiera como poblaciones diferentes, uno de todos modos debería reconocer que son sólo vectores ideales provenientes del mismo medio social. A tono con esta visión general, los estudios más recientes ya no asignan rasgos tribales exclusivamente a los grupos móviles: el modo sociopolítico tribal se entiende en cambio como una manera de resolver tensiones en sociedades con componentes pastoriles móviles signi cativos. Por lo tanto, grupos sociales aparentemente diferentes pertenecían a las mismas entidades políticas y obedecáan a las mismas autoridades. En este contexto surge la cuestión de si identidades culturales distintas que provienen de un mismo medio sociopolítico necesitan explicarse en relación con una sola unidad política que envuelve a todas aquellas (dinastía) o estamos en condiciones de visualizar modos alternativos de establecer vínculos sociales a distancia. En escenarios previos, cuando los proyectos dinásticos expansionistas aún estaban ausentes en la región del Éufrates Medio, las identidades tribales parecen haber ofrecido una alternativa, o más bien un complemento, a la ciudadanía urbana local, como sabemos por las primeras inscripciones reales de Mari. Se usó allí la categoría matum por primera vez, para referirse a entidades sociopolíticas en sí mismas, no necesariamente subordinadas a formaciones políticas mayores. Este trabajo examina el preciso signi cado de este término tal cual es usado en las inscripciones reales de Yahdun-Lim. Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2019-12-30 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://claroscuro.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/56 10.35305/cl.vi18.56 Claroscuro. Revista del Centro de Estudios sobre Diversidad Cultural; No. 18 (2019): Syria during the Bronze Age: The City of Mari 85 Years After Its Discovery; 1-23 Claroscuro. Revista del Centro de Estudios sobre Diversidad Cultural; Núm. 18 (2019): Siria durante la Edad del Bronce: la ciudad de Mari a 85 años de su descubrimiento; 1-23 2314-0542 eng https://claroscuro.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/56/43 Derechos de autor 2019 Claroscuro. Revista del Centro de Estudios sobre Diversidad Cultural https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/

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