Contenitore per compresse cuneiformi impresso con guarnizioni a quattro cilindri, per compresse cuneiformi 66.245.15a: Quittanza ca. 20th–19th secolo a.C. l'antica colonia di commercio assiro Kültepe, l'antica città di Kanesh, era una città potente e cosmopolita situata nella Cappadocia settentrionale, nell'Anatolia centrale. Durante i primi anni del secondo millennio a.C., divenne parte della rete di insediamenti commerciali stabiliti in tutta la regione dai mercanti di Ashur (in Assiria nella Mesopotamia settentrionale). Viaggiando per lunghe distanze da caravan asino, e spesso vivendo separatamente dalle loro famiglie, questi mercanti commerciavano grandi quantità

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• Dimensioni: 4000 x 3867 px | 33,9 x 32,7 cm | 13,3 x 12,9 inches | 300dpi
• Data acquisizione: 20 gennaio 2022

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Cuneiform tablet case impressed with four cylinder seals, for cuneiform tablet 66.245.15a: quittance ca. 20th–19th century B.C. Old Assyrian Trading Colony Kültepe, the ancient city of Kanesh, was a powerful and cosmopolitan city located in northern Cappadocia in central Anatolia. During the early second millennium B.C., it became part of the network of trading settlements established across the region by merchants from Ashur (in Assyria in northern Mesopotamia). Travelling long distances by donkey caravan, and often living separately from their families, these merchants traded vast quantities of tin and textiles for gold and silver in addition to controlling the copper trade within Anatolia itself. Although the merchants adopted many aspects of local Anatolian life, they brought with them Mesopotamian tools used to record transactions: cuneiform writing, clay tablets and envelopes, and cylinder seals. Using a simplified version of the elaborate cuneiform writing system, merchants tracked loans as well as business deals and disputes, and sent letters to families and business partners back in Ashur. These texts also provide information about the greater political history of Ashur and the Anatolian city-states as well as details about the daily life of Assyrians and Anatolians who not only worked side-by-side, but also married and had children together. At Kültepe, thousands of these texts stored in household archives were preserved when fire destroyed the city in ca. 1836 B.C. and provide a glimpse into the complex and sophisticated commercial and social interactions that took place in the Near East during the beginning of the second millennium B.C.This case once enclosed a cuneiform tablet (66.245.15a) which recorded the repayment of a loan from Karriya and Ashur-nada. The repayment of 9 ½ minas of silver was made in Kanesh, and because the tablet recording the original details of the loan was still in Ashur, this quittance was written to record completion of t

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• 19 century
• 20 th
• ac
• anatolia
• antiche
• archaeologie
• archivio
• artefatto
• assiria
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• bombola
• casso
• colonia
• commerce
• commercio
• commerciovendita
• copione
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• impressione
• in rete
• inscription
• kultepe
• mercante
• mesopotamia
• mesopotamian
• quittance
• roulotte
• scambio
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• sigillo di argilla
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