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The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near East

Studies in Ancient

Near Eastern Records

General Editor:

Gonzalo Rubio

Editors:

Nicole Brisch, Petra Goedegebuure, Markus Hilgert,

Amélie Kuhrt, Peter Machinist, Piotr Michalowski,

Cécile Michel, Beate Pongratz-Leisten, D. T. Potts,

Kim Ryholt

Volume 13

The Role of Women in

Work and Society in

the Ancient Near East

Edited by

Brigitte Lion and Cécile Michel

ISBN 978-1-61451-913-3

e-ISBN (PDF) 978-1-61451-908-9

e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-1-61451-997-3

ISSN 2161-4415

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Foreword

The idea for the conference on

Women in Work and Society

is already ten years

old. It was first conceived to be an event open to historians of the classical

world, as well as ethnologists. However, historians who specialize in ancient

Greece and Rome are much ahead of Assyriologists on the matter of gender

studies, and it appeared that it would be interesting to explore the involvement

of women in the economy of ancient Mesopotamia.

In January 2012 the French-Japanese project

Le Rôle Economique des

Femmes en Mésopotamie Ancienne

(REFEMA,

The Economic Role of Women in

Ancient Mesopotamia)

was launched, involving researchers of the team

Histoire

et Archéologie de l’Orient Cunéiforme

(HAROC, Archéologies et Sciences de l’An-

tiquité) in Nanterre and a group of Japanese colleagues from several institu-

tions based in Tokyo, the majority of them belonging to Chuo University.

The

goal of this project was to use ancient Mesopotamian written sources (3

–1

millennia BC) to study the various aspects of women as economic agents, both

inside and outside the family structure. This program, which lasted three years

(2012–2014) was divided into three main themes: the economic role of women

in the family, women and external economy, and women and the estate. The

four REFEMA workshops, two in France (Nanterre, Carqueiranne) and two in

Tokyo, addressed the economic role of women as producers of wealth, both in

the private sphere and in large institutions (temples and palaces), as operators

in the transmission of estates, and as involved in all types of economic activi-

ties, even though they are less attested in this field than men and their transac-

tions often concern smaller quantities.

The conference on

Women in Work and Society

was the closing event of the

REFEMA research program. Many colleagues from various countries, including

historians, art historians and a historian of law, all specializing in the ancient

Near East, were invited to join the small REFEMA team. By gathering col-

leagues who work on different types of sources, we wanted to look for con-

The French team was lead by Francis Joannes (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Ar-

ScAn-HAROC) and involved the following Assyriologists: Laura Cousin (University Paris 1 Pan-

théon-Sorbonne, ArScAn-HAROC), Josué Justel (University of Alcalá, Spain), Bertrand Lafont

(CNRS, ArScAn-HAROC), Brigitte Lion (University Lille 3, HALMA), Cécile Michel (CNRS, Ar-

ScAn-HAROC) and Gauthier Tolini (ArScAn-HAROC). The Japanese team was conducted by

Fumi Karahashi (Chuo University) and involved the following colleagues from Tokyo’s various

institutions: Eiko Matsushima (Hôsei University), Ichiro Nakata (Ancient Orient Museum, Chuo

University), Yoko Watai (Chuo University) and Masamichi Yamada (Chuo University). An issue

of the journal

Orient

was edited by Fumi Karahashi with contributions of nine members of this

project (Orient 51, 2016).

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