Papers by Gregory Chambon
« L'écrit et l'oral : tenir et rendre des comptes au Proche-Orient ancien (début du IIe millénaire av. J.-C.) », Pasiphae XVII, p. 85-93., 2023
A norma del codice civile italiano, è vietata la riproduzione, totale o parziale (compresi estrat... more A norma del codice civile italiano, è vietata la riproduzione, totale o parziale (compresi estratti, ecc.), di questa pubblicazione in qualsiasi forma e versione (comprese bozze, ecc.), originale o derivata, e con qualsiasi mezzo a stampa o internet (compresi siti web personali e istituzionali, academia.edu, ecc.), elettronico, digitale, meccanico, per mezzo di fotocopie, pdf, microfilm, film, scanner o altro, senza il permesso scritto della casa editrice. Under Italian civil law this publication cannot be reproduced, wholly or in part (including offprints, etc.), in any form (including proofs, etc.), original or derived, or by any means : print, internet (including personal and institutional web sites, academia.edu, etc.), electronic, digital, mechanical, including photocopy, pdf, microfilm, film, scanner or any other medium, without permission in writing from the publisher.
with L. Marti, T. Pommerening, « Capacity measures in context II: New considerations on capacity units and their "standards" in Mesopotamia and Egypt », in G. Chambon and A. Otto (eds.), Weights and Measures as a Window on Ancient Near Eastern Societies, MAAO 9, p. 131-151., 2023
with A. Otto, « Why do "duck-weights" have the form of a water-bird? Goose-weights and their relation to the goddesses Nanše and Ningal », in G. Chambon and A. Otto (eds.), Weights and Measures as a Window on Ancient Near Eastern Societies, MAAO 9, p. 41-60., 2023
with A. Otto, in G. Chambon and A. Otto (eds.), Weights and Measures as a Window on Ancient Near Eastern Societies, MAAO 9, p. 1-23., 2023
Akkadica 146, p. 141-152, 2025
The royal archives of Old Babylonian Mari provide a uniquely palace-centred perspective on the ec... more The royal archives of Old Babylonian Mari provide a uniquely palace-centred perspective on the economic and administrative relationships between the king's household and the city's temples in the eighteenth century BCE. Although no temple archives have been recovered, the documents reveal how temple wealth, personnel, and activities were integrated into the broader managerial framework of the bītum, a politico-domestic structure shaped by Amorite social organisation. Through the case of the priestess Inib-šina, the chapter highlights the complex entanglement of royal kinship, property management, and elite households. The examination of the šangûm-priests shows them to have held not only cultic responsibilities but also key administrative roles, managing consecrated goods (asakkum), overseeing the fabrication of cultic objects, and supervising accounting procedures conducted before the gods. Loan contracts involving deities, priests, and private individuals further illuminate the circulation of silver, the certification of refined metal ("weight of Mari"), and the intertwining of temple and urban economic spheres. Despite royal oversight-particularly in appointments and access to temple treasure-the evidence suggests that temples retained certain independent revenue streams, notably through lending and agricultural resources. The chapter thus reframes the temple-palace relationship in Mari as one of interdependence rather than strict subordination.
ARCHIBAB 6, Paris, p. 451-490, 2026
LE BÂTIMENT AUX ANIMAUX ENGRAISSÉS DE LARSA
DU TEMPS DE RĪM-SÎN I : ÉTUDE PRÉLIMINAIRE
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