Workers and construction work at Garsana

Heimpfel's work provides much needed clarification of the new terminology found throughout the Garšana archives and constitutes the first significant attempt to interpret the largest Garšana archive. Each chapter is replete with new insights, lexical contributions, and careful reconstructions of the intricacies of labor organization and construction methods and practices. Tangential discussions range, as well, over cultic, literary, and historical issues. Philologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and historians will be delighted for the new data that range from techniques used by laborers to build, repair, demolish houses, buildings and walls, ovens, waterproofing roofs to the role of women in Sumerian and Babylonian society, the running of a large household/estate of a royal family, and the ration system of both hired and servant labor.