2000 – 1700 BCE

Old Assyrian

Aššur the merchant city — the great trade with Anatolia.

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While Hammurabi unifies Babylonia in the south, the city of Aššur on the upper Tigris becomes a node in a long-distance trade network reaching deep into Anatolia. The Old Assyrian merchants establish kārum settlements at Kaneš (modern Kültepe) and elsewhere; their family archives — preserved by the thousand at Kaneš — record loans of tin and textiles in Akkadian dialect.

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Tablets from this period

1546 tablets dated to Old Assyrian — showing 24 below; browse all 1546.

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AAA 1/3, 01

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AAA 1/3, 01. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AAA 1/3, 03

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AAA 1/3, 03. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AAA 1/3, 05

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AAA 1/3, 05. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AAA 1/3, 06

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AAA 1/3, 06. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AAA 1/3, 08

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AAA 1/3, 08. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AAA 1/3, 10

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AAA 1/3, 10. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AAA 1/3, 13

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AAA 1/3, 13. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AAA 1/3, 14

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AAA 1/3, 14. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AAA 1/3, 16

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AAA 1/3, 16. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AAA 1/3, 21

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AAA 1/3, 21. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AAA 1/3, 22

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AAA 1/3, 22. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AAA 1/3, 23

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AAA 1/3, 23. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AHDO 1,107

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AHDO 1,107. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianRIAo

Aminu 2001

(1) Rībam-ilī, scribe, servant of Aminu.

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianRIAo

Aminu 2002

(1) Muqaddimum, servant of Aminu.

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AnOr 06, 069-070 01

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AnOr 06, 069-070 01. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AnOr 06, 069-070 02

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AnOr 06, 069-070 02. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AnOr 06, 069-070 03

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AnOr 06, 069-070 03. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AnOr 06, 069-070 04

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AnOr 06, 069-070 04. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AnOr 06, 069-070 05

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AnOr 06, 069-070 05. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AnOr 06, 069-070 06

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AnOr 06, 069-070 06. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AnOr 06, 069-070 07

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AnOr 06, 069-070 07. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AnOr 06, 069-070 08

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AnOr 06, 069-070 08. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1900 BCE·Old AssyrianEditorial

AnOr 06, 069-070 10

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — AnOr 06, 069-070 10. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

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