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.
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