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According to the Chronicle of Edessa, in the aftermath of the flood, districts of the city were redesigned and rebuilt, and a five-year remission of taxes was granted. Mention is made of a neighborhood of Edessa, presumably on the citadel mount, which was the location of the houses of individuals involved in the administration of the kingdom (1.9–10; for maps of Edessa, see Burkitt 1913; Drijvers 1977: 865); these individuals included surveyors and trained architects who played an advisory role to the king during the emergency caused by the flood (1.10; 2.12–13). Two new royal palaces were planned and built, and a neighborhood was erected to contain new dwellings for nobles close to the king (3.3–4; the summer palace of Abgar was later described by the pilgrim Egeria, in 384 CE, in Peregrinatio Egeriae 19.6 and 19.14–18). The close relation between King Abgar and his nobles is emphasized by the text and may recall Hellenistic court life, according to which the king’s extended family dwelt with a number of high-ranking philoi, in addition to people staying at court for a limited amount of time, such as intellectuals, politicians, or exiles, and a number of specialist assistants catering to the administrative needs of the kingdom and of the court such as clerks, scribes, and physicians (Herman 1997; Savalli-Lestrade 1998; Erskine et al. 2017); at the same time, the emphasis on kinship that emerges from the text as well as from the Syriac epigraphic material should be understood in relation to the tribal structures that were part of Edessene society (Sommer 2018: 252–258).