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Late Babylonian Administrative and Legal Texts, Concerning Craftsmen, from the Eanna Archive.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levavi, Yuval.
- Series:
- Yale Oriental Series: Cuneiform Texts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Akkadian language--Texts.
- Akkadian language.
- Babylonia--Social life and customs.
- Babylonia.
- Babylonia--Economic conditions.
- Babylonia--History--Texts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (409 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- More than three hundred previously unpublished texts from the Yale Babylonian Collection Yuval Levavi and Elizabeth E. Payne present 315 previously unpublished texts held in the Yale Babylonian Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum. The texts shed light on textile and metal workers in the Eanna temple in Uruk during the Neo-Babylonian Period, about 626 to 539 BCE. This volume of the Yale Oriental Series features a full edition of each text, including hand copies, transliterations, translations, and essential commentary, allowing unprecedented access to these primary sources.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- On the Present Volume
- Chronological Distribution
- Arrangement of Texts in This Volume
- Typology of Texts
- Seal Impressions
- Translation and Conventions
- CATALOGUE
- CONCORDANCE OF MUSEUM NUMBERS
- TEXT EDITIONS
- INDICES
- Personal Names
- Akkadian Words
- Month Names
- Temples
- Divine Names
- Geographical Names and Toponyms
- Texts
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PLATES.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780300280470
- 0300280475
- OCLC:
- 1446134838
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