Where can I read translations of the Kanesh tablets?

by Frigorifico

When I went to the British Museum I saw many tablets from form the city of Kanesh

If I remember correctly there were many Assyrian merchants living in Anatolia and they were sending letters to their family living in Kanesh

It was a delightful insight into the lives of regular people in those times and I want to read more of it

I imagine that most of those tablets have been translated by now, so I wonder if there is something similar to to the Ashurbanipal Library Project where one can read translations of all these letters

Or if not, I hope that at least there are papers that include translations of many of these letters, that would also be great

Particularly I know there's a collection of letters that 5 people sent to their parents Pushu-ken and Lamashi, they are mentioned in this youtube video but I want to read the translation of those letters

boccraeft

Ira Spar has three volumes published containing transcriptions and translations of cuneiform texts based in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York:

Spar, Ira, Eva Von Dassow, and W.G. Lambert. *Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art". Volumes I-III. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Belgium: Brepols.

You may be particularly interested in volume one, *Tablets, Cones, and Bricks of the Second Millennia B.C.", which contains a number of Old Assyrian letters translated by Mogens Trolle Larsen from pages 92-115. One of the letters relating to Kaneš (presently known as Kültepe/Kanesh) is written by Buzazu, and their worries about a road being blocked delaying a consignment of silver. There's quite a few translations of materials relating to Kaneš if this is a specific location you're interested in reading about, including commercial notes and loan documents. Hopefully these might be of interest to you!