A Year of Vengeance. / Volume 1, : A Year of Vengeance ; Time, Narrative, and the Old Assyrian Trade.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Stratford, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) , 17,1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVIII, 409 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Šalim-aḫum’s Revenge --; Chapter 2. Structures of the Trade --; Part 1: Narrative and Time --; Chapter 3. Ilabrat-bāni’s Arrival --; Chapter 4. A Scale of Time --; Chapter 5. Šalim-aḫum and Ilabrat-bāni Make a Deal --; Chapter 6. Puzur-Istar and Šalim-aḫum’s Gold --; Chapter 7. Dān-Aššur’s Travels --; Chapter 8. Seizing Ilabrat-bāni’s Goods --; Part 2: Old Assyrian Time --; Chapter 9. The Bulk Caravan Hiatus --; Chapter 10. Tempo of Transport --; Chapter 11. Tempo of Communication --; Part 3: Narrative and Context --; Chapter 12. Prodigal Son --; Chapter 13. Pūšu-kēn’s Pressures --; Chapter 14. A Joint Venture --; Chapter 15. Disruptions in the Supply --; Chapter 16. Vengeance of the Gods --; Chapter 17. Pūšu-kēn’s Revenge? --; Part 4: The Material Implications of Old Assyrian Commercial Time --; Chapter 18. The Volume of Trade --; Chapter 19. Archives and the Deformation of Time --; Conclusion --; Chapter 20. A Year of Vengeance --; Appendix 1: Analytic Ledger of Šalim-aḫum’s Assets During the Year of Vengeance --; Appendix 2: Temporal Ledger of Šalim-aḫum’s Assets During REL 82 --; Appendix 3: Initial Analysis of Pūšu-kēn’s reconstructed archive in relation to the Year of Vengeance and other periods --; Bibliography --; List of Figures --; Keyword Index --; Selective Index of Personal and Divine Names --; Index of Geographical Places
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501507120; 9783110762495; 9783110719543; 9783110540550; 9783110625264; 9783110547733
• ISSN: 2161-4415
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501507120
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

Despite 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 Šalim-aḫum’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.