Abstract
In discussing the documentary evidences relating to a labouring group called El. kurtas, Aram. grd' and Bab. gardu, the writer notes that kurtas was the general designation for the dependent workers of the Achaemenid royal economy. One of the problems raised by Hallock's publication is a fact that the kurtas includes rabbap. El. rabbap corresponds to OP basta (band-“to bind”) in the Behistun inscription and the release from the status of rabbap is represented by the El. verb mazte- which is used as an equivalent to OP ava-hard-“to leave, abandon” (DB § 35) or OP ava-rad- (DNa) “to abandon” (DNa). So, for example, PT 22, 5-8: m. RUH. lg-ip… m. akkabe rabbabba ak kutte am maztep must be translated as “men … who were bound to (the royal economy) and are now turned out (of the royal economy).”
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