“ANATOLIAN” WOMAN AND CHILD WORKERS (KURTASHS) OF PERSEPOLIS AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS: 509-458 B.C.

Yıl 2018, , 17 - 48, 01.05.2018

Fariz Öncü

https://doi.org/10.1501/Tarar_0000000676

Öz

During the Achaemenid/Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BC) Persepolis, as a royal house, was one of the most important centers of Persian "Great Kings". About 30,000 Araştırma Görevlisi, A.Ü. Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, Tarih Bölümü, Eskiçağ Tarihi Anabilim Dalı, [e-mail] clay tablets were obtained in excavations conducted in the region in the 1930s. The texts called "Persepolis Treasury Tablets" and "Persepolis Fortification Tablets” keep records of daily and monthly rations or payments made to people from various social strata over foodstuffs, animals and silver in Persepolis and surrounding areas. Thousands of dependent workers who came from different regions of the empire and labeled kurtaš were also given rations. An important part of these workers varied in age, gender and ability came from different regions of Anatolia. Nearly half of the workers consisted of Sardians, Ionians, Carians, Lycians and Cappadocians were women and children. The Persepolis texts shows that these dependent women and children from Anatolia were not different from other women and children workers in Persepolis and its surrounding areas in terms of the rate of ration they received and the bureaucratic practices they were subjected to

Anahtar Kelimeler

Achaemenid, Persepolis, Economy, Rations, Woman Kurtashs, Child Kurtashs

Persepolis ve çevresinin “Anadolulu” kadın ve çocuk işçileri (kurtaš’lar): M.Ö. 509-458

Öz

Persepolis, Akhaemenid/Pers İmparatorluğu döneminde Pers krallarının ikamet ettikleri en önemli merkezlerden biriydi. 1930’larda yapılan kazı çalışmalarıyla bu bölgede 30.000 civarında tablet bulunmuştur. Bu tabletler, Persepolis ve çevresindeki bölgelerde yaşayan çeşitli sosyal tabakalara mensup insanlara gıda ürünleri, hayvanlar ve gümüş üzerinden yapılan günlük ve aylık tayınların ya da ödemelerin kaydıdır. İmparatorluğun değişik bölgelerinden gelmiş ve kurtaš olarak bilinen binlerce bağımlı işçinin de tablet metinlerinde tayın alanlar arasında olduğu görülür. Farklı yaş, cinsiyet ve yetenekte olan bu bağımlı işçilerin önemli bir bölümü Anadolu’nun farklı bölgelerinden Persepolis’e gelmektedir. Sardeisli, Ionialı, Karialı, Lykialı ve Kappadokialılardan oluşan bu işçilerin yaklaşık yarısı kadın ve çocuklardan meydana gelir. Persepolis’e gelen “Anadolulu” kadın ve çocuk bağımlı işçiler, Persepolis ve çevresindeki diğer kadın ve çocuk işçiler ile aynı tayın oranları alır

Anahtar Kelimeler

Akhaemenid, Persepolis, Ekonomi, Tayın, Kadın

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