ABSTRACT

Around two decades ago, following on from attempts to redress the long-standing neglect of the lives and contributions of women in antiquity, archaeologists and historians around the world started to reframe their treatments of past societies to incorporate children in larger-scale social, economic, political and religious processes. While scholars of the ancient Near East were much slower to follow, there is now a growing library of research available on children, particularly for Mesopotamia and the biblical world. Children and childhood in Elam, however, are still faring poorly as subjects of inquiry, despite the varied sources from which we can learn about them. This article's raison d’être is to review these sources, which fall into the three broad categories “textual”, “iconographic” and “archaeological”, and reflect on what they can tell us about Elamite children. By the conclusion it becomes clear that Elamite society tended to marginalise younger individuals, who had not yet attained full membership in the group. Their appearance in a fairly restricted range of contexts in art and texts and their differential treatment in death resonates with the results of studies of children in other areas of the Near East.

摘要

大约二十年前，世界各地的考古学家和历史学家试图纠正长期以来对古代妇女的生活和贡献的忽视，并开始重新审视他们对过去社会的看法，将儿童纳入更大规模的社会、经济和社会发展中。 、政治和宗教进程。虽然古代近东的学者们追随的速度要慢得多，但现在关于儿童的研究图书馆越来越多，特别是关于美索不达米亚和圣经世界的研究。然而，尽管我们可以从多种来源了解埃拉姆的儿童和童年，但作为研究对象，他们的表现仍然不佳。本文存在的目的是回顾这些来源，这些来源分为“文本”、“图像”和“考古”三大类，并反思他们可以告诉我们有关埃兰儿童的信息。结论很明显，埃兰社会倾向于边缘化尚未成为该群体正式成员的年轻人。他们在艺术和文本中的出现在相当有限的范围内，以及他们在死亡方面的区别对待，与对近东其他地区儿童的研究结果产生了共鸣。