The Ikūn-pîša letter archive from Tell ed-Dēr (IPLA)) / by Rients de Boer ; copies by Kh. Al-Adhami and D.O. Edzard ; photographs by W. Sommerfeld and N. Muhammad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boer, Rients de, 1981- author.

Series:

Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden ; 131.

PIHANS, 0926-9568 ; volume CXXXI

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuneiform tablets.

History.

Der Site (Iraq).

Iraq--Antiquities.

Iraq.

Antiquities.

Iraq--History--To 634--Sources.

Cuneiform tablets--Iraq--Der Site.

Iraq--Der Site.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xiv, 255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten ; Leuven : Peeters, 2021.

Summary:

This volume sees the publication of fifty-six early Old Babylonian letters from ca. 1880 BCE. They were found by legendary Iraqi archaeologist Taha Baqir in 1941 at the site of Tell ed-Der, ancient Sippar-Amnanum, in central Iraq. The letters are written in an early dialect of Akkadian and are part of the archives of an ancient firm. This firm consisted of a number of families engaged in local agriculture, the manufacturing of textiles, crediting, and international trade. As such it was part of the same larger trade networks as those already known from the contemporary Old Assyrian archives found in central Turkey. The firm strived to have good relations with local Amorite rulers, such as Sumu-la-El, the first king of Babylon, and they used their own trading agents to represent them in far-away cities such as Mari. For these reasons, the letters are also an important source for Babylonia's political and socio-economic history.

This volume sees the publication of fifty-six early Old Babylonian letters from ca. 1880 BCE. They were found by legendary Iraqi archaeologist Taha Baqir in 1941 at the site of Tell ed-Der, ancient Sippar-Amnanum, in central Iraq. The letters are written in an early dialect of Akkadian and are part of the archives of an ancient firm. This firm consisted of a number of families engaged in local agriculture, the manufacturing of textiles, crediting, and international trade. As such it was part of the same larger trade networks as those already known from the contemporary Old Assyrian archives found in central Turkey. The firm strived to have good relations with local Amorite rulers, such as Sumu-la-El, the first king of Babylon, and they used their own trading agents to represent them in far-away cities such as Mari. For these reasons, the letters are also an important source for Babylonia?s political and socio-economic history.0.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169) and index.

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Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9789042943155

9042943157

OCLC:

1250252622

Publisher Number:

9789042943155