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Individual and Family in Old Assyrian Society
[...]practically all of the textual material available for study in the field of Old Assyrian stems from archives discovered in private houses in the trading colony at Kanesh, and this fact naturally colors our view of both the social and commercial structures of this society. [...]an equally critical obstacle is the fact that most of the published texts have no archaeological context, having been dug up by local villagers in the years between about 1890 and 1948. Another reason for conflict was disagreement among the heirs. Because of the way in which the financial relations between the members of the family were organized, the structures that were in place and secured the orderly running of the family's business while the pater familias was alive tended to dissolve, or at the very least to come under severe stress, when he died. [...]Salim-Assur spent much of his time in the copper-producing region, and died in the main center there, Durhumit, and his family was clearly a major player in the trade in copper and wool.
Journal Article
Centre and periphery in the ancient world
This collaborative volume is concerned with long-term social change. Envisaging individual societies as interlinked and interdependent parts of a global social system, the contributors determine the extent to which ancient societies were shaped over time by their incorporation in - or resistance to - the larger system.
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The Archaeological Exploration of Assyria
Claudius Rich's work and his collection of objects, a collection that ended up in the British Museum, came to play a major role for the pioneers who initiated Assyria's archaeological exploration. Jules Mohl managed to persuade the authorities to create the position of a French consul in Mosul, and a young man called Paul Émile Botta was appointed in 1841. Part of his task was to start excavations at Nineveh, in particular on the huge mound known as Kuyunjik, and Mohl had secured funds specifically for this purpose. Austen Henry Layard first turned his attention to Kuyunjik, where, having better luck than Botta, he had made some significant discoveries during his earlier expedition; most importantly, he had found there a vast palace built by Sennacherib around 700 BCE. One of Layard's most important achievements at Kuyunjik was the discovery of a large room filled with mostly fragmentary clay tablets covered with cuneiform writing.
Book Chapter
Letter: Cash famine at the British Museum
Sir: On three occasions during the past four months, which I have spent on a sabbatical in Oxford, I have visited the Assyrian and Mesopotamian collections at the British Museum, only to discover that the relevant galleries were closed to the public. The reason given by the staff at the museum has been a lack of guards; one of them - watching a neighbouring gallery - politely explained that in his view the entire museum was rapidly being closed down, with guards being made redundant for reasons of economy. My colleagues in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the museum could do nothing more than express their extreme dissatisfaction with this state of affairs.
Newspaper Article
