Zur Chronologie der Kaufmannsarchive aus der Schicht 2 des Karum Kanes: Studien und Materialien

As the title shows, the book is generally divided into two parts. The

first chapters provide the reader with an outline towards the general

situation of Old Assyrian archival studies followed by a study of 6 of

the most important archives under a chronological point of view. Based

on their occurrences in dated documents the most prominent members and

partners of the firms in discussion are set into the chronological frame

as given by the newly published Kultepe eponym lists. It is one of the

intents of the study to lay the foundation for further work, e.g.

research on the developments of prices, legal documents etc.
The

second part of the book consists of extensive list with the references

of the year- and week-eponyms from the published and numerous

unpublished texts of Karum Kanes level 2. These are given in clearly

arranged tables, with discussion of every single year-eponym. If known

the family-relationships of each is given, so that many of the most

important families of old Assyrian Assur become far better known than

was possible before. Concordances between the Kultepe eponym lists, the

Mari eponym chronicle and the new lists in this book are added. The book

concludes with a chapter on the week-eponym (etymology, system) followed

by the indices.