楔形文字碑：放弃银质贷款 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	楔形文字碑：放弃银质贷款
品名（英）	Cuneiform tablet: quittance for a loan in silver
入馆年号	1966年，66.245.16a
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 2000 - 公元前 1800
创作地区
分类
尺寸	4.6 × 4.7 × 1.5 厘米 (1 13/16 × 1 7/8 × 9/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	Kültepe是Kanesh古城，是公元前两千年初阿舒尔（美索不达米亚北部的亚述）商人在安纳托利亚中部建立的贸易定居点网络的一部分。这些商人长途跋涉，经常与家人分开生活，交易大量货物，主要是锡和纺织品，用于安纳托利亚铜和其他材料。尽管商人采用了当地安纳托利亚生活的许多方面，但他们带来了美索不达米亚用来记录交易的工具：楔形文字、泥板和信封，以及圆柱印章。商人使用简化版的精致楔形文字书写系统，追踪贷款、商业交易和纠纷，并向阿舒尔的家庭和商业伙伴发送信件。在库尔特佩，大约公元前1836年大火摧毁了这座城市，数千本保存在家庭档案中的文本被保存了下来。因为这些石碑记录了亚述商人的活动，它们让我们得以一窥公元前第二个千年初近东发生的复杂而复杂的商业互动。这块石碑记录了欠阿舒尔·塔克拉库的一笔白银贷款的债务清偿情况。楔形文字从左到右，表明白银贷款已经支付，任何进一步的索赔都是无效的。文本中列出了证人，他们的印章出现在装有药片的粘土信封或盒子上（MMA 66.245.16b）。
介绍（英）	Kültepe, the ancient city of Kanesh, was part of the network of trading settlements established in central Anatolia by merchants from Ashur (in Assyria in northern Mesopotamia) in the early second millennium B.C. Travelling long distances, and often living separately from their families, these merchants traded vast quantities of goods, primarily tin and textiles, for Anatolian copper and other materials. Although the merchants adopted many aspects of local Anatolian life, they brought with them Mesopotamian tools used to record transactions: cuneiform writing, clay tablets and envelopes, and cylinder seals. Using a simplified version of the elaborate cuneiform writing system, merchants tracked loans as well as business deals and disputes, and sent letters to families and business partners back in Ashur. At Kültepe, thousands of these texts stored in household archives were preserved when fire destroyed the city in ca. 1836 B.C. Because the tablets document the activities of Assyrian merchants, they provide a glimpse into the complex and sophisticated commercial interactions that took place in the Near East during the beginning of the second millennium B.C. This tablet documents the discharge from debt for a silver loan owed to Ashur-taklaku. The cuneiform text, which reads from left to right, indicates that the loan of silver has been paid, and any further claims are void. Witnesses are listed in the text, and their seals appear on the clay envelope or case which contained the tablet (MMA 66.245.16b).