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Women of Assur and Kanesh
2020
Overview
Vivid sources for reconstructing the lives of Assyrian
women
In this collection Cécile Michel translates into English texts
related to wives and daughters of merchants and to their activities
in nineteenth-century BCE Aššur and Kaneš. Discovered in
excavations of the Old Assyrian private archives at Kültepe
(ancient Kaneš) in Central Anatolia, these letters sent from Aššur
reflect the preeminent role of Assyrian women within the family and
in the domestic economy, as well as their contribution to
long-distance trade. Contracts and other legal texts excavated at
Kültepe attest to Assyrian and Anatolian women as parties in
marriage and divorce contracts, last wills, loans, and purchase
contracts. These unique finds paint a vivid portrait of women who
aspire to be socially respected and provide a rare opportunity to
reconstruct their daily lives as both businesswomen and
housewives.
Features
More than three hundred letters and documents transliterated
and translated with commentary
An overview of the study of women and gender in
Assyriology
A reconstruction of women's roles as textile producers,
investors, and creditors within a long-distance commercial
network
Cécile Michel is Senior Researcher at the
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France) and
Professor at Hamburg University (Germany). She is a member of the
international group of scholars in charge of the decipherment of
the 23,000 tablets found at Kültepe (ancient Kaneš) and of the
Kültepe archaeological team. She is the coeditor of and contributor
to The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near
East (2016), Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the
Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD (2017), and
Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in Ancient
Worlds (2020).
Publisher
SBL Press,Society of Biblical Literature
Subject
/ Ashur (Extinct city) -- History -- Sources
/ Assyrian women -- Iraq -- Ashur (Extinct city)
/ History
/ Iraq
/ Kanesh (Extinct city) -- History -- Sources
/ Merchants -- Turkey -- Kanesh (Extinct city) -- Archives
/ Religion
/ Sex role
/ Sex role -- Iraq -- Ashur (Extinct city)
/ Sex role -- Turkey -- Kanesh (Extinct city)
/ Sources
/ Turkey
/ Women
ISBN
9780884144557, 0884144550
