Debt and Indebtedness at Emar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Viano, Maurizio.

Series:

Studies in Ancient near Eastern Records (SANER) Series

Studies in Ancient near Eastern Records (SANER) Series ; v.28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Credit--Syria--Emar (Extinct city).

Credit.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (652 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.

Summary:

This book is the first comprehensive study of debts and credit system at Emar. It focuses on the socio-economic aspects of credit access and indebtedness as well as on the motivations behind debts and debt settlement in the city of Emar. The credit system is analyzed through several factors: the purpose of debts, i.e., productive or consumptive; the procedures for granting loans; the strategies put in place to meet an obligation and to cope with economic difficulties; the consequences of non-fulfillment, which may lead to servitude or slavery; the different types of slavery; slave prices; the mechanisms of enslavement; and termination of slavery. Moneylending practices and the formation of servile conditions at Emar are studied in the context of the Syrian economy aiming to understand whether the Emar evidence conforms with a socio political and economic crisis that is generally acknowledged to have struck Syria, Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia at the end of the Late Bronze Age. This work is of sure relevance for scholars interested in socio-economic history, not only of the pertinent historical-geographical area.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Summary of Content

List of Figures

List of Tables

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

Part I: Textual Analysis

2 Credit Transactions

3 Default and Dependency

Part II: Synthesis

4 The Emar Credit System

5 Forms of Dependency at Emar

6 Conclusions

7 Appendix

8 Bibliography

Personal Name Index

Source Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501515309

1501515306

OCLC:

1382695471