Navico

The Experience of Temple Dependants and Chattel Slaves (626-484 BCE)

Navico offers a comprehensive investigation of cuneiform texts regarding the lived experiences and agency of sbubaltern people in an environment of coerced labor.

"She struck a dog and said, 'I wish I were dead like the dog.'" The tablet YOS 7 107 records a moment of desperate anger revealing life at the bottom of Babylonian society.
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