| Description |
1 online resource (409 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Studies in ancient Near Eastern records, 2161-4415 ; volume 17, 1 |
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Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; v. 17, 1.
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| Contents |
1. Salim-ahum's revenge -- 2. Structures of the trade -- 3. Ilabrat-bani's arrival -- 4. A scale of time -- 5. Salim-ahum and Ilabrat-bani make a deal -- 6. Puzur-Istar and Salim-ahum's gold -- 7. Dan-Assur's travels -- 8. Seizing Ilabrat-bani's goods -- 9. The bulk caravan hiatus -- 10. Tempo of transport -- 11. Tempo of communication -- 12. Prodigal son -- 13. Pusu-ken's pressures -- 14. A joint venture -- 15. Disruptions in the supply -- 16. Vengeance of the gods -- 17. Pusu-ken's revenge? -- 18. The volume of trade -- 19. Archives and the deformation of time -- 20. A year of vengeance -- Appendix 1: Analytic ledger of Salim-ahum's assets during the Year of Vengeance -- Appendix 2: Temporal ledger of Salim-ahum's assets during REL 82 -- Appendix 3: Initial analysis of Pusu-ken's reconstructed archive in relation to the Year of Vengeance and other periods |
| Summary |
Despite siginificant advances in annual chronology, the Old Assyrian trade fundamentally lacked a regime of time at the level of the merchant's commercial and personal activities. In this book, Stratford sets out to recapture time through narrative, drawing on the relationship between the two described by the philosopher Paul Ricouer. Investigating a possible case of revenge leads to weaving together more than a hundred mostly undated documents to form a narrative within the course of a single year of vengeance, including trade disruptions, illnesses, and commerce. This process demonstrates relationships between document and material context, and time and narrative. Along the way, Old Assyrian commercial time and its tempos become more clear, leading to descriptions of the scale of the trade and the nature of Old Assyrian archives as they have survived. Ultimately, the Assyrians involved appear as the earliest historical individuals in world history. The treatment of Salim-ahum's apparent revenge comprises a practicuum in historical interpretation in the ancient world of interest to practitioners and theoreticians of both the ancient world and world history |
| Notes |
Revision and expansion of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 2010 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
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Commerce
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Economic history
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| SUBJECT |
Assyria -- Commerce -- History -- Sources
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Assyria -- Commerce
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Assyria -- Economic conditions
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| Subject |
Middle East -- Assyria
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| Genre/Form |
Sources
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781501507120 |
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1501507125 |
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9781501507182 |
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1501507184 |
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9781501507137 |
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1501507133 |
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