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Archives of Old Assyrian Traders

2003· book-chapter· en· W4388379535 on OpenAlex

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Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicAncient Near East History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMesopotamiaAncient cityCuneiformQuarter (Canadian coin)Ancient historyDozenArchaeologyHistoryGeography

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Abstract Thus far about 20,000 Old Assyrian cuneiform tablets have been unearthed at the site of the ancient city of Kanish, the modern ruin Kultepe in central Anatolia, most of which date to the nineteenth century bc. While a few dozen tablets were discovered on the city mound, both in houses and in the ruins of the palace of the local rulers, the bulk of the texts originate from the lower city, inhabited by local businessmen, craftsmen, and foreign, mainly Assyrian, traders. Since the tablets from the city mound, the scattered and largely unpublished remains of various small archives, defy archival analysis, I shall focus on those from the lower city. They were found in what the Assyrians called the kā rum, originally meaning ‘quay, harbour’ (in Mesopotamia, where bulk transport was waterborne), then also ‘commercial district’. Kā rum was used both as a topographical term—the name of the quarter where the traders lived—and as a designation of the organization of Assyrian traders settled there.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.931
Threshold uncertainty score0.961

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0400.001

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Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.182
Teacher spread0.141 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2003
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