Female Chattel Slaves in Private Contexts in Late Babylonia (626–484 BCE) KU Leuven
This PhD project investigates the lived experiences of female chattel slaves in Neo-Babylonian Babylonia (626–484 BCE). Drawing on archival texts and case studies, it reconstructs their roles in households, labour, commerce, and care, with particular attention to instances in which enslaved women emerge as active agents rather than passive objects of record. By combining philological analysis with microhistorical and narrative approaches, the ...