No. 1002 · dated by century
Wullu
15th century BCLandownerAsia · c. 1450 BC
Wullu was a private citizen and entrepreneur from Nuzi, a town of the Kingdom of Arrapḫe, a political entity submitted to the Mittani Empire. Wullu’s business transactions are documented in an archive that refers to the family’s commercial activities over five generations. Most of his transactions refer to acquiring of land. Beside the today’s normal way of acquiring land by purchase, much of his land was acquired through transfers of property on the occasion of marriages and adoptions.