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

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In this collection Cecile Michel transliterates, translates into English, and provides commentary for more than three hundred texts found at Kultepe 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.