Early Dynastic and Early Argonic administrative texts : mainly from the Umma Region in the Cornell University cuneiform collections / by Palmiro Notizia and Giuseppe Visicato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Notizia, Palmiro, 1980- author.

Visicato, Giuseppe, author.

Contributor:

Cornell University, host institution.

Series:

Cornell University studies in Assyriology and Sumerology ; v. 33.

Cornell University studies in Assyriology and Sumerology (CUSAS) ; volume 33

Language:

English

Sumerian

Subjects (All):

Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian--Iraq.

Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian.

Cuneiform tablets--Iraq.

Cuneiform tablets.

Iraq--Economic conditions.

Iraq.

Economic conditions.

Iraq--Civilization--To 634.

Civilization.

Iraq--History--To 634.

History.

Economic history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 312 pages : black-and-white illustrations ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bethesda, Maryland : CDL Press, 2016.

Summary:

Photos, transliterations, translations, and commentary on previously unpublished Sumerian cuneiform economic documents from mid-third-millennium Mesopotamia.

Contents:

Published and unpublished ED IIIb and Early Sargonic texts

From the Umma Region

Content of the texts

City-rulers of Umma and chief administrators of the Temple of Inanna

At Zabalam : the new evidence

Unpublished ED IIIb

Early Sargonic texts

From the Umma Region in CDLI

Catalogue

Concordance

The texts

Sheep

Livestock

Hides

Fodder

Ghee, cheese and lard

Wool and garments

Vegetables, fruit, flax, fish, timber, tools, military equipment

Fields

Personnel

Sale documents and legal texts

Metals

Various contents

Content not clear

Barley, flour, bread, beer

School texts

Texts from the Adab Region and of uncertain provenance.

ISBN:

9781934309704

1934309702

OCLC:

953525265