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Cuneiform Texts

Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud V: The Nimrud Letters, 1952
edited by Henry W. F. Saggs
In 1952 in one wing of the North-West Palace at Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Max Mallowan excavated an archive room containing royal correspondence from the reigns of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II of Assyria. Subjects include Assyrian military activity in Babylonia and on the northern frontier, royal building projects, events on the Phoenician seaboard, and relations with King Midas of Phrygia. Some texts were published in Iraq between 1955 and ...
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Catalogue of Cuneiform Tablets in Birmingham City Museum 2
by P J Watson
This second volume of cuneiform tablets in Birmingham City Museum presents some 300 neo-Sumerian economic texts, mainly from Umma, formerly in the Wellcome Collection. All the tablets, which include a few from Lagash, are economic in nature but deal with a variety of commodities: animals, workers, silver, baskets and reeds, oils, fish, beer, barley and rations. The texts are preceded by a register of texts, and indexes of personal names, divine ...
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Margins of Writing, Origins of Culture: New Approaches to Writing and Reading in the Ancient Near East. Papers from a Symposium held February 25-26, 2005
edited by Seth Sanders
Who invented national literature? What is the relationship between script, identity, and history? Recorded history began in the ancient Near East, but we are just beginning to explore the powerful creative relationship between writing and the political identities of the Near East's cultures. This symposium was the first to bring leading philologists together with anthropologists and historians to connect theories of writing, language, and ...
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The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua The Stylite
translated and introduced by Frank R Trombley and John W Watt
A new translation and commentary of the `Historical Narrative of the Period of Distress which occurred in Edessa, Amid and all Mesopotamia'. The history provides a richly detailed first-hand account of life in an East Roman city between AD 494 and 506, a period which saw war with Persia, a plague of locusts, famine and disease. The text is supported by a lengthy introduction and a comprehensive bibliography. 176p, 5 maps (Translated Texts for ...
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Catalogue of Cuneiform Tablets in Birmingham Museum 1
by Philip J Watson
Vol 1: Neo-Sumerian Texts fron Drehem. This catalogue publishes copies of 139 previously unpublished neo-Sumerian economic texts from Drehem which were formerly in the collections of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. All the necessary critical apparatus for study of the texts is provided, including the history of the collection, content and type of texts, indexes and concordance, notes and plates, but not transliterations and ...
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Your Praise is Sweet: A Memorial Volume for Jeremy Black from Students, Colleagues and Friends
edited by Heather D. Baker, Eleanor Robson, and Gábor Zólyomi
This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase zà-mí-zu dug-ga-àm 'Your praise is sweet' is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literature. The scope of the thirty contributions, from Sumerology to the nineteenth-century rediscovery of Mesopotamia, is testament to Jeremy's own wide-ranging interests and to his ability to forge ...
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Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum: Volume III
by M Sigrist, R Zadok and C B F Walker
This catalogue is the third in a series publishing the whole collection of Babylonian and Sumerian tablets in the British Museum. In this volume over 7,000 tablets acquired in the years 1898-9 are described. They include Sumerian tablets from the administrative archives of the district of Lagash of the time of the Third Dynasty of Ur, Old Babylonian tablets from the cities of Kisurra, Larsa, Sippar and Uruk, and tablets of the Neo-Babylonian and ...
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Babylonian Wisdom Literature
by W G Lambert
In Babylonian studies 'Wisdom' is used to cover a group of texts similar in scope to the Biblical Wisdom books: discussions on the problem of suffering, teaching on the good life, fables or contest literature, and proverbs. These texts are not only of considerable literary merit, but are also of great importance to all students of the ancient Near East as revealing the thought pattern of the ancient Babylonians. The cuneiform texts have been ...
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The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures
edited by James B. Pritchard
James Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to its texts and artefacts. Now these two enduring works have been combined and integrated into one convenient and richly illustrated volume, with a new foreword that puts the translations in context. With more than 130 reading selections and 300 photographs of ancient art, architecture, and artifacts, this volume provides a stimulating ...
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Ankara Arkeoloji Müzesinde bulanan Bogazköy Tabletleri II: Bogazköy Tablets in the Archaeological Museum of Ankara II
by Rukiye Akdogan and Oguz Soysal
This is the first volume in a new series, Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements, designed to augment and supplement the work of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary project. Future volumes will continue to bring tablets written in the Hittite language to light. The volume presented here (ABoT II) is the continuation of the cuneiform edition Ankara Arkeoloji Müzesinde Bulunan Bogazköy Tabletleri (ABoT) published by Kemal Balkan in ...
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