The Haran Census is a group of clay tablets from Iron Age Syria, listing rural estates and their dependent peoples dated to the reign of Sargon II.Edward Lipiński, The Aramaeans: Their Ancient History, Culture, Religion (Peeters Publishers, 2000) p. 515.Trevor Bryce, The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia (Routledge, 2009) p. 293.Tony J. Wilkinson, Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East (University of Arizona Press, 2003) p132-133. Found in Nineveh, the census actually describes the area around Harran.Gershon Galil, The Lower Stratum Families in the Neo-Assyrian Period (BRILL, 2007)p28. The census shows that the population in the estates and nearby cities was predominantly Western Semitic,Steven Winford Holloway, Aššur is King! Aššur is King!: Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (BRILL, 2002) p406. and had an average density of 5 persons per household.Edward Lipiński, The Aramaeans: Their Ancient History, Culture, Religion (Peeters Publishers, 2000) p. 188. The census also provides the name of many smaller towns and the main residents of the time,On Assyrian “Lower-Stratum” Families, SAAB 18 (2009–2010), 163–186 . and provides evidence that the Harran region was growing wheat, barley as well as vines, at the time.Minna Silver, Unearthing the Past at Ancient Harran and the Wells of Paddan-Aram (March 2016).
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