230 pp, color figures, hb, Turkish-English bilingual.
Contents:
- Abbreviations and bibliography
I. Catalogue and concordance of the texts
- A. Descriptive catalogue by publication numbers
- B. Concordance of excavation and edition numbers
II. Introduction
- 1. The archive and its discovery
- 2. Dating the archive
- 3. Kuliya's family
- 4. Kuliya as messenger of kârum Kanesh
- 5. Kuliya's commercial activities and relations
a. His business and contacts
b. The main persons interacting with Kulia
- 6. Language and writing of the texts
a. Scribal features
b. Lexical features
- 7. The format of the edition
III. Edition of the Text
- 1. Kuliya as a messenger of the kârum (1-6)
- A. The texts
- B. Interpretation
a. Geographical aspects
b. Kuliya's task and the system of taxation
- 1. The tithe (isrâtum) on iron
- 2. The "Saadu^utu-taz of kârum Kanesh"
- 3. Taxation of caravans arriving via the sukinnu-route
- 4. Reasons, origin and formulation of the new rules
c. Conclusion
- 2. Letters (7-34)
- A. Introduction
- B. The texts
a. Letters by Kuliya (7-8)
b. Letters from Kuliya from his wife, alone and with others (9-13)
c. Other letters addressed to Kuliya alone and with others (14-29)
d. Letters not addressed to Kuliya (30-31)
e. An unidentifıed letter, a "supplement" and a letter envelope (32-34)
- 3. Contracts, depositions and private records of transactions
a. Records of single transactions (35-42)
b. Groups of contracts and depositions copied in memorandums (43-49)
- 4. Various memorandums (50-61)
- 5. Lists of tablets (62-69)
A. Introduction
a. Containers for tablets
b. The lists
- B. The texts (62-69)
- 6. Various texts (70-73)
a. Judicial records (70-71)
b. Sealed envelope of a letter (72)
c. The eponym list "KEL A" (73)
- 7. Three letters of Kuliya excavated in 1989 (74*-76*)
IV. Indices
- 1. Personal names
- 2. Geographical names and nisbes
- 3. Gods
- 4. Year eponyms
- 5. Words attested and discussed
- 6. Texts quoted or commented upon
V. Seal impressions, cuneiform copies and photos
- 1. Seal impressions, by Masako Omura
- 2. Drawings of damaged, diffîcult and unusual cuneiform signs
- 3. Photos envelopes and selected tablets
