Harran Census
The Haran Census is a group of clay tablets from Iron Age Syria, listing rural estates and their dependent peoples dated to the reign of Sargon II.[1][2][3] Found in Nineveh, the census actually describes the area around Harran.[4] The census shows that the population in the estates and nearby cities was predominantly Western Semitic,[5] and had an average density of 5 persons per household.[6] The census also provides the name of many smaller towns and the main residents of the time,[7] and provides evidence that the Harran region was growing wheat, barley as well as vines, at the time.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ Edward Lipiński, The Aramaeans: Their Ancient History, Culture, Religion (Peeters Publishers, 2000) p. 515.
- ^ Trevor Bryce, The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia (Routledge, 2009) p. 293.
- ^ Tony J. Wilkinson, Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East (University of Arizona Press, 2003) p132-133.
- ^ Gershon Galil, The Lower Stratum Families in the Neo-Assyrian Period (BRILL, 2007)p28.
- ^ Steven Winford Holloway, Aššur is King! Aššur is King!: Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (BRILL, 2002) p406.
- ^ Edward Lipiński, The Aramaeans: Their Ancient History, Culture, Religion (Peeters Publishers, 2000) p. 188.
- ^ On Assyrian “Lower-Stratum” Families, SAAB 18 (2009–2010), 163–186 [2011].
- ^ Minna Silver, Unearthing the Past at Ancient Harran and the Wells of Paddan-Aram (March 2016).