Obligations de travail dans les économies palatiales du Bronze récent. Cas d’études à Ougarit et dans les palais mycéniens

F. Rougemont (1, 2, 3) , Juan-Pablo Vita (4)

1 ArScAn - Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité
2 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
3 ProtoEgéenne - Protohistoire égéenne
4 ILC - Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo

Palatial economic archives from various regions — from the Aegean world to Mesopotamia — and from various periods of the Bronze Age, attest to the use by palatial administrations of procedures in which workers were obliged to perform a task, whether craft or agricultural, on behalf of the palace. This article examines the possibility that such a procedure existed also in Ugarit, since a group of administrative texts relating to metals appear comparable to these systems of work-assignments. The material from Ugarit and the conclusions reached allow, then, a comparison with the system of work-assignment attested in the Mycenaean texts and called ta-ra-si-ja . Mycenaean and Ugaritic documentations present typological, structural and chronological analogies, which add to the interest of the comparison.

Keywords: economy; administration; work; Ugarit; Myceanean world; Mycenaean epigraphy; Linear B; ugaritic

Keywords: économie; administration; travail; Ougarit; monde mycénien; épigraphie mycénienne; Linéaire B; ougaritique

Domains: History; Archaeology and Prehistory

F. Rougemont, Juan-Pablo Vita. Obligations de travail dans les économies palatiales du Bronze récent. Cas d’études à Ougarit et dans les palais mycéniens. Altorientalische Forschungen, 2021, 48 (1), pp.125-149. ⟨10.1515/aofo-2021-0009⟩. ⟨hal-03259676⟩