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Old Assyrian Institutions

Old Assyrian Institutions

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ArchaeologyAncient History General

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ISBN10: 9062580998
ISBN13: 9789062580996
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Dec 31 2004
Pages: 329
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.61 Width: 7.71 Depth: 10.41
Language: English
Archaeological and documentary evidence is used to investigate two major institutions of the Old Assyrian city-state: the City Hall in Assur, and the Office of the Colony in Kultepe/Kanish. Part One deals with the City Hall: its role in the economy of the city-state and its functionaries. Its activities involved the sale to merchants of commodities to be exported to Anatolia. But the Hall, managed by the Year-Eponym, was equally important for the local economy by verifying weights and measures as well as the quality of metals used as a means of exchange. Moreover, it levied taxes and appears to have controlled the city's main granary. A complex mechanism at the heart of the colonial system in Kultepe/Kanish is addressed in Part Two. An interpretation is offered there of the related mechanisms of the payment of the datum-contribution by registered merchants, communal fund-raising, taxation and the accounting of the colony.

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