The Babylonian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A, Cuneiform texts / edited by H.V. Hilprecht.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hilprecht, H. V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925.

University of Pennsylvania. Department of Archaeology.

Conference Name:

Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania http://viaf.org/viaf/230078317

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuneiform inscriptions.

Babylonia--Antiquities.

Babylonia.

Physical Description:

13 volumes : illustrations, plates ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Pub. by the Department of archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1893-1914.

Contents:

Vol. I. Old Babylonian inscriptions chiefly from Nippur. By H. V. Hilprecht. 1893-96. 2 pt. in 1 v.

Vol. III, pt. 1. Sumerian administrative documents dated in the reigns of the kings of the second dynasty of Ur; from the temple archives of Nippur. By D. W. Myhrman. 1910.

Vol. VI, pt. 1. Babylonian legal and business documents from the time of the first dynasty of Babylon: chiefly from Sippar. By Hermann Ranke. 1906. pt. 2. Babylonian legal and business documents ... chiefly from Nippur. By Arno Poebel. 1909.

Vol. VIII, pt. 1. Legal and commercial transactions dated in the Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods; chiefly from Nippur. By A. T. Clay. 1908.

Vol. IX. Business documents of Murashû sons of Nippur dated in the reign of Artaxerxes I. (464-424 B. C.) By H. V. Hilprecht and Rev. A. T. Clay. 1898.

Vol. X. Business documents of Marashû sons of Nippur dated in the reign of Darius II. (424-404 B. C.) By Rev. A. T. Clay. 1904.

Vol. XIV-XV. Documents from the temple archives of Nippur dated in the reigns of Cassite rulers. By Rev. A. T. Clay. 1906. 2 v.

Vol. XVII, pt. 1. Letters to Cassite kings from temple archives of Nippur. By Hugo Radau. 1908.

Vol. XX, pt. 1. Mathematical, metrological and chronological tablets from the temple library of Nippur. By H. V. Hilprecht. 1906.

Vol. XXIX, pt. 1. Sumerian hymns and prayers to god Nin-Ib, from the temple library of Nippur. By Hugo Radau. 1911.

Vol. XXX, pt. 1. Sumerian hymns and prayers to god Dumu-zi or Babylonian lenten songs, by Hugo Radau.

Vol. XXXI. Historical and religious texts from the temple library of Nippur, by Stephen Langdon.

Notes:

Vol. 1, pt. 1-2, "reprint from the Transactionf of the Amer. philos. society, n. s., vol. XVIII, no. 1, 3."

Vols. 3-29, "Eckley Brinton Coxee, junior, fund."

The volumes listed below in the contents are the only ones of this series published by the university. The numbers of these volumes were laid out by Professor Hilprecht as a part of an extended series; two other volumes were issued by him after his connection with the University museum was severed, but these were not authorized by the museum, and were published by Rudolf Merkel of Erlangen, Germany; they are entitled: Sumerian hymns and prayers to god Dumu-Zi, or Babylonian lenten songs from the temple library of Nippur, by Hugo Radau, München, 1913 (vol. XXX, pt. 1, of the series); Historical and religious texts from the temple library of Nippur, by Stephen Langdon, München, 1914 (vol. XXXI of the series). The work is continued by the Babylonian section of the University museum, under title: Publications of the Babylonian section.

OCLC:

27237056