LEADER 04494nam 2200589 450 001 9910796505003321 005 20200923020339.0 010 $a1-5015-0718-4 010 $a1-5015-0712-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501507120 035 $a(CKB)4100000001040030 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5123808 035 $a(DE-B1597)482548 035 $a(OCoLC)1004867895 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501507120 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5123808 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11466366 035 $a(OCoLC)1012347332 035 $a(PPN)219910707 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001040030 100 $a20171211h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 12$aA year of vengeance$hVolume 1$iTime, narrative, and the Old Assyrian trade /$fEdward Stratford 210 1$aBoston, [Massachusetts] ;$aBerlin, [Germany] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (428 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 0 $aStudies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER),$x2161-4415 ;$vVolume 17, 1 311 $a1-5015-1569-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPreface -- $tContents -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. ?alim-a?um's Revenge -- $tChapter 2. Structures of the Trade -- $tPart 1: Narrative and Time -- $tChapter 3. Ilabrat-b?ni's Arrival -- $tChapter 4. A Scale of Time -- $tChapter 5. ?alim-a?um and Ilabrat-b?ni Make a Deal -- $tChapter 6. Puzur-Istar and ?alim-a?um's Gold -- $tChapter 7. D?n-A??ur's Travels -- $tChapter 8. Seizing Ilabrat-b?ni's Goods -- $tPart 2: Old Assyrian Time -- $tChapter 9. The Bulk Caravan Hiatus -- $tChapter 10. Tempo of Transport -- $tChapter 11. Tempo of Communication -- $tPart 3: Narrative and Context -- $tChapter 12. Prodigal Son -- $tChapter 13. P??u-k?n's Pressures -- $tChapter 14. A Joint Venture -- $tChapter 15. Disruptions in the Supply -- $tChapter 16. Vengeance of the Gods -- $tChapter 17. P??u-k?n's Revenge? -- $tPart 4: The Material Implications of Old Assyrian Commercial Time -- $tChapter 18. The Volume of Trade -- $tChapter 19. Archives and the Deformation of Time -- $tConclusion -- $tChapter 20. A Year of Vengeance -- $tAppendix 1: Analytic Ledger of ?alim-a?um's Assets During the Year of Vengeance -- $tAppendix 2: Temporal Ledger of ?alim-a?um's Assets During REL 82 -- $tAppendix 3: Initial Analysis of P??u-k?n's reconstructed archive in relation to the Year of Vengeance and other periods -- $tBibliography -- $tList of Figures -- $tKeyword Index -- $tSelective Index of Personal and Divine Names -- $tIndex of Geographical Places 330 $aDespite siginificant advances in annual chronology, the Old Assyrian trade fundamentally lacked a regime of time at the level of the merchant's commercial and personal activities. In this book, Stratford sets out to recapture time through narrative, drawing on the relationship between the two described by the philosopher Paul Ricouer. Investigating a possible case of revenge leads to weaving together more than a hundred mostly undated documents to form a narrative within the course of a single year of vengeance, including trade disruptions, illnesses, and commerce. This process demonstrates relationships between document and material context, and time and narrative. Along the way, Old Assyrian commercial time and its tempos become more clear, leading to descriptions of the scale of the trade and the nature of Old Assyrian archives as they have survived. Ultimately, the Assyrians involved appear as the earliest historical individuals in world history. The treatment of ?alim-a?um's apparent revenge comprises a practicuum in historical interpretation in the ancient world of interest to practitioners and theoreticians of both the ancient world and world history. 606 $aHISTORY / Middle East / General$2bisacsh 607 $aAssyria$xCommerce 607 $aAssyria$xEconomic conditions 610 $aEconomic history. 610 $aancient trade. 610 $amicrohistory. 610 $atime and narrative. 615 7$aHISTORY / Middle East / General. 676 $a380.10935 700 $aStratford$b Edward$01510582 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796505003321 996 $aA year of vengeance$93743360 997 $aUNINA