Old Babylonian Texts in the Ashmolean Museum
Old Babylonian Texts in the Ashmolean Museum

Author: Stephanie Dalley

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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"This volume contains an introduction, detailed catalogue, and full indices of 291 cuneiform clay tablets in the Ashmolean Museum, with hand-copies of each text. The tablets range in date from c.1900-1600 BC and the purpose of their publication is to make basic material available to cuneiform scholars. From such work it is gradually becoming possible to reassemble archives from scattered tablets in collections all over the world. Studies of reconstituted archives will be the basis for writing histories of these very early periods. This book is intended for scholars and students in Assyriology and ancient near-eastern history. Edited and translated by: Dalley, Stephanie (Shillito Fellow in Assyriology at the Oriental Institute, Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford); Unknown function: Yoffee, Norman (Professor of Anthropology)." - COPAC.

Old Babylonian Texts In The Ashmolean Museum
Old Babylonian Texts In The Ashmolean Museum

Author: Stephanie Dalley

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780199272778

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This volume completes the publication of all identified Old Babylonian tablets in the Ashmolean Museum accessed before 1966. Although many of them were acquired from dealers in the 1920s and 1930s, most can be assigned to sites and connected with similar holdings in other museums. The combination of full catalogue, indices, and copies provides an invaluable tool for further research on three of the most important cities of the 18th century BC. Links with Mycenaean administrative practices, and information about the hitherto dubious Sealand dynasty, are two interesting aspects highlighted in the introduction.

Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two
Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two

Author: A. R. George

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1646020146

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In ancient Mesopotamia, men training to be scribes copied model letters in order to practice writing and familiarize themselves with epistolary forms and expressions. Similarly, model contracts were used to teach them how to draw up agreements for the transactions typical of everyday economic life. This volume makes available a trove of previously unknown tablets and fragments, now housed in the Shøyen Collection, that were produced in the training of scribes in Old Babylonian schools. Following on Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part One: Selected Letters, this volume publishes the contents of sixty-five tablets bearing Akkadian letters used to train scribes and twenty-six prisms and tablets carrying Sumerian legal texts copied in the same context. Each text is presented in transliterated form and in translation, with appropriate commentary and annotations and, at the end of the book, photographs of the cuneiform. The material is made easily navigable by a catalogue, bibliography, and indexes. This collection of previously unknown documents expands the extant corpus of educational texts, making an essential contribution to the study of the ancient world.

Babylonian Epics, Hymns, Omens, and Other Texts
Babylonian Epics, Hymns, Omens, and Other Texts

Author: Albert T. Clay

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2005-09-14

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1597523704

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The intention of Ancient Texts and Translations (ATT) is to make available a variety of ancient documents and document collections to a broad range of readers. The series will include reprints of long out-of- print volumes, revisions of earlier editions, and completely new volumes. The understanding of ancient societies depends upon our close reading of the documents, however fragmentary, that have survived. --K. C. Hanson Series Editor

A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts
A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts

Author: Jöran Friberg

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-07-31

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 0387345434

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The book analyzes the mathematical tablets from the private collection of Martin Schoyen. It includes analyses of tablets which have never been studied before. This provides new insight into Babylonian understanding of sophisticated mathematical objects. The book is carefully written and organized. The tablets are classified according to mathematical content and purpose, while drawings and pictures are provided for the most interesting tablets.

Babylonian Topographical Texts
Babylonian Topographical Texts

Author: A. R. George

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9789068314106

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Babylonian Topographical Texts collects for the first time all Babylonian and Assyrian texts of the first millennium B.C. that belong to what is designated the topographical genre. Much of the material is not previously published. The book is largely concerned with Babylon. Seventeen texts on this city now allow its topography to be properly understood for the first time. Another seventeen texts concern the cities of Nippur, Assur, Kish and Uruk. Also included are thirty miscellaneous texts, mostly new, which bear upon topographical matters. The text editions and translations are supplemented by a philological and topical commentary. The work is concluded with full indices, and 57 plates of cuneiform copies.

Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament, Second Edition
Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament, Second Edition

Author: Robert W. Rogers

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2005-07-19

Total Pages: 629

ISBN-13: 1597523070

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'The first major collection of cuneiform texts in English' Despite its age, this volume still has a major contribution to make. Unlike other collections, Rogers's volume includes the transliterated Akkadian for each text. This provides an invaluable access to the original texts without having a library that includes every volume of the original publications. A further asset is the collection of forty-eight excellent photographs and line-drawings. Included here are tablets, prisms, cylinders, seals, boundary stones, and bas reliefs. The bibliography is composed of two parts. The first includes the entries from Rogers's ÒList of Books Quoted or Mentioned,Ó but with numerous corrections and supplying much missing data. The second part is an updated list, organized by major cuneiform languages: Diverse Collections, Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Hurrian, Eblaite, and Ugaritic. This will direct the reader to the wealth of primary documents that is now our privilege to read.

Documents from Old Testament Times
Documents from Old Testament Times

Author: D. Winton Thomas

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1597523577

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This volumes includes almost one hundred ancient documents from the ancient Near East that have relevance for the study ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. It includes more than twenty photos of these documents, a newly updated bibliography, and a new foreword. The aim throughout the volume has been to relate each document as closely as possible to the Old Testament, and to bring out relevant points of interest touching history, chronology, archaeology, religion, literature, geography, and so on, in illustration of the Old Testament. Not all Israel's story is told in the Old Testament. It has to be supplemented by the evidence of ancient documents discovered by archaeologists--inscriptions on clay, stone, seals and coins, and writings on potsherds, papyrus and leather. Some part of this story it is the purpose of this volume to tell. . . . While Israel is not without her testimony to herself, it is for the most part the witness of her neighbours which is met with in the pages of this volume. --from the Preface

Economy and Society in Northern Babylonia in the Early Old Babylonian Period (ca. 2000-1800 BC)
Economy and Society in Northern Babylonia in the Early Old Babylonian Period (ca. 2000-1800 BC)

Author: Anne Goddeeris

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9789042911239

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Early Old Babylonian economy and society are analyzed in this volume. The first part presents all the relevant cuneiform documents published before 2002, about 1200 in number. As far as possible, the texts are situated in their original archival context. A short summary of the content of each of them is given and, if necessary, there is an accompanying discussion of specific problems. Each reconstructed archive is followed by a description of the activities recorded in it and by a study of its protagonists. A family tree is often added to clarify the history of the archive. In the second part of the volume, the data presented in the archival study are integrated in a comprehensive analysis of the early Old Babylonian economy. Aspects of economy, such as land and labor management, trade, crafts and credit are evaluated and situated in their specific historical context.