Tavoletta cuneiforme: record di una querela. Cultura: Vecchia assiro colonia di trading. Dimensioni: H. 6 5/8 in. (16,8 cm). Data: ca. 20th del XIX secolo A.C. Kültepe, antica città di Kanesh, era un potente e cosmopolita città situata nel nord della Cappadocia in Anatolia centrale. Durante l'inizio del II millennio a.c. divenne parte della rete degli insediamenti commerciali stabiliti in tutta la regione dei mercanti di Ashur (in Assiria in Mesopotamia settentrionale). Coprire lunghe distanze da asino caravan e spesso vivono separati dalle loro famiglie, questi mercanti scambiati grandi quantità di stagno
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Cuneiform tablet: record of a lawsuit. Culture: Old Assyrian Trading Colony. Dimensions: H. 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm). Date: ca. 20th-19th century B.C.. 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 tablet, the longest extant Old Assyrian legal text, represents one such document and records court testimony describing a dispute between two merchants. This testimony was delivered before witnesses representing the authority of the merchant government in Kanesh as well as the dagger of the god Ashur. In the text, Suen-n
