Documentary on Assyrian Cuneiform Tablets Available Online from 5 to 11 October 2020

2 October 2020, by Webmaster

The English version of the documentary film Thus speaks Taram-Kubi, Assyrian Correspondence can be watched for free online during the 8th Annual Arkhaios Film Festival, Virtual Edition, 5 to 11 October 2020. The film is a joint effort by director Vanessa Tubiana-Brun and Cécile Michel, co-author of the film, Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures and Director of Research at the CNRS.

To watch the movie, access the festival site by going to www.arkhaiosfilmfestival2020.eventive.org/welcome or follow this link.

The festival is free and only requires a one-time registration. Each film is accessed by unlocking the film, and pressing "Watch now".

About the film:

About 4 000 years ago, Assyrian merchants established a commercial settlement in the ancient city of Kaneš, within Central Anatolia. They came from Aššur, north of Mesopotamia. We have come to understand their history through their writings on clay tablets that have stood the test of time: more than 22 500 cuneiform tablets have been unearthed from the archaeological site of Kültepe.  How did these Mesopotamian clay tablets arrived in Anatolia and what do they tell us?  The voice of Tarām-Kūbi, an Assyrian woman who corresponded with her brother and her husband in Kaneš, takes us back in time.