Women of Assur and Kanesh: Texts from the Archives of Assyrian Merchants - Paperback

by Cécile Michel (Author)

In this collection Cécile Michel transliterates, translates into English, and provides commentary for more than three hundred texts found at Kültepe in Central Anatolia. These letters and legal documents reveal the ancient world of the wives and daughters of merchants and their economic and social activities in nineteenth-century BCE Assur and Kanes.