= Bayram S. − Kuzuoğlu R., PİLAH-İŠTAR’IN EŞLERİ, BOŞANMALARI VE ÇOCUKLARI (Marriages, Divorces and Children of Pilah-Ištar), in: ArAn 15/1 21-46. [Abstract: Approximately 23.500 cuneiform texts were found as a result of the archeological excavations, which started at Kültepe near Kayseri in 1948 and have continued until the present day. These texts, written in the Old Assyrian dialect and mostly belonging to Assyrian merchants, contain both little but important information about the private lives of the merchants and the feature of the Assyrian Trade Colonies Period. Most of the tablets excavated at Kültepe in 1988 belong to the Assyrian merchant Aššur-rē’ī and his son Pilah-Ištar and have given some non-detailed information about their commercial activities in Anatolia and their private lives. These texts indicate that Pilah-Ištar got married twice in Anatolia within a period approximately between 1883 and 1859 BC, but both marriages resulted in divorce. No adequate information is given about his children. Although we know that he had more than one child, only his daughter Lamassī is mentioned in the texts, and no clear records are encountered on the number and gender of his other children. In this study, it will be attempted to give some information and to make an evaluation about the marriages, divorces, and children of Pilah-Ištar, who seems to have spent about 30 years of his life in Anatolia, in light of the texts especially in his archive and the texts in other archives, and to put forward the private life of an Assyrian merchant.] Neue Abfrage | New Search
