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Journal Article
Women at home and women travelling - the case of Assyrian merchant's wives at the start of the 2nd millennium BC
2008
Overview
At the beginning of the second millennium B. C., the Assyrians organized from Assur (in modern Iraq), exchanges of products with Central Anatolia where some of them settled. There, they contracted at times a second marriage with a native girl. Merchant wives and daughters stayd alone in their houses at Assur during long periods, left to get married and to settle at Kanis (Central Anatolia), or followed their husband in their many travels within Anatolia. The numerous cuneiform archives (private letters and legal texts) unearthed in the harbour of Kanis illustrate the variety of travels women accomplished with or without their husbands. // ABSTRACT IN FRENCH: Les Assyriens, au début du iie millénaire av. J.-C., organisent, depuis Aur (site actuellement en Irak), des échanges commerciaux avec l'Asie Mineure où certains d'entre eux s'installent et contractent parfois un second mariage avec une autochtone. Femmes et filles de marchands restent seules pendant de longues périodes dans leur maison à Aur, partent fonder un foyer à Kani (en Anatolie centrale), ou suivent leurs maris dans toutes leurs pérégrinations en Asie Mineure. Les nombreuses archives cunéiformes - correspondance privée et documents juridiques - découvertes dans le quartier commerçant de Kani illustrent les différents voyages accomplis par les femmes avec ou sans leurs époux. Reproduced by permission of Bibliothèque de Sciences Po
