Ashur-idi

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Aššur-idi was an ancient Assyrian merchant who lived between 1900 and 1700 BC. Lived. He is known for the cuneiform tablets from kārum Kaneš , an old Assyrian trading colony in Anatolia. The Danish Assyriologist Mogens Trolle Larsen published the family archive, which contained around 125 plates. Aššur-idi himself was based in the capital Aššur , from where he supervised the family business. His son Aššur-nada lived in Kaneš. He sold the goods that his brothers Ilu-alum and Aššur-taklaku and other men had brought in caravans from Aššur to Kaneš, mainly textiles and pewter. Often the goods were entrusted to middlemen ( šazzuztum ) who offered them for sale in other Anatolian cities. Aššur-nada and his father were members of the self-governing merchant guild des kārum.

Aššur-idi financed his business from a naruqqum (literally "sack"), a long-term loan in gold that other Assyrian merchants had granted him (two mines are the usual amount according to Larsen). For this he had to make payments ( mašqaltum ), which are mentioned in his letters to Anatolia. Aššur-idi probably worked as a caravan guide himself in his youth. Later, his son traveled to Aššur to receive a naruqqum there too, apparently belatedly, in his father's opinion. After Aššur-idi's death in Kaneš, his son Iddin-Ištar continued the family business, together with a certain Adad-sululi , of whom it is not entirely sure whether he belonged to the family. The family archive was later transferred to the house of Adad-sululi (FG / 9-10).

literature

  • P. Garelli, Les Assyriens en Cappadocie (Paris 1963), 41.
  • Mogens Trolle Larsen, Partnerships in the Old Assyrian Trade. Iraq 39/1, 1977, 119-145.
  • Mogens Trolle Larsen, The Assur-nada Archive. Publications de l'Institut historique-archeologique neerlandais de Stamboul - PIHANS 96 / Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten / Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mogens Trolle Larsen, Partnerships in the Old Assyrian Trade. Iraq 39/1, 1977, 140
  2. ↑ L 29-559; CCT 4: 10a; KTH 2. Mogens Trolle Larsen, Partnerships in the Old Assyrian Trade. Iraq 39/1, 1977, 127
  3. ^ Mogens Trolle Larsen, Partnerships in the Old Assyrian Trade. Iraq 39/1, 1977, 127
  4. ^ MT Larsen, The Assur-nada Archive, Istanbul 2002, xvii
personal data
SURNAME Ashur-idi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Old Assyrian merchant
DATE OF BIRTH between 1900 BC BC and 1700 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH between 1900 BC BC and 1700 BC Chr.