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Journal Article
Individual and Family in Old Assyrian Society
2007
Overview
[...]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.
Publisher
American Schools of Oriental Research,University of Chicago Press
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