The Old Assyrian Trade in the light of Recent Kültepe Archives

Cécile Michel (1)

1 ArScAn - Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité

At the beginning of the IInd millennium BCE, inhabitants from the Assur city-state, on the Tigris, organized large scale commercial exchange with Anatolia: they exported tin and textiles in Central Anatolia and brought back gold and silver. They settled down in forty Anatolian localities, in karum and wabartum; their main settlement being at Kültepe, near Kayseri, in Turkey, the place of the ancient Kanis.

Synthèse sur le commerce paléo-assyrien à partir des textes publiés ces dernières années.

Mots clés: Commerce; Assyrien; Anatolie; étain; textiles

Domaines: Histoire

Cécile Michel. The Old Assyrian Trade in the light of Recent Kültepe Archives. Journal of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies, 2008, 3, pp.71-82. ⟨halshs-00642827⟩