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Miscellaneous Early Dynastic and Sargonic Texts in the Cornell University Collections
Translation, transliteration and commentary on economic and literary texts from ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia from the middle of the 3rd millennium BCE. These, previously unpublished texts, are some of the very earliest cuneiform texts in existence.
Entrepreneurs and Enterprise in Early Mesopotamia: A Study of Three Archives from the Third Dynasty of Ur
This work analyzes the role played by individual entrepreneurs under the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur and highlights its operation. It also addresses the issue of private vs. state enterprise in the economy of the Ur III state.
Classical Sargonic Tablets Chiefly from Adab, Part II
These texts add significantly to our understanding of Sargonic history, socio-economics, and lexicography. There is a lengthy discussion of the reconstruction of the Adab calendar and an updated Sargonic sign-list is included.
Babylonian Divinatory Texts Chiefly in the Schoyen Collection
Transliteration, translation, and commentary of new Mesopotamian divination prayers, extispicy texts, omen lists, and divinatory models. These texts extend over two millennia and come from many sites, including a previously unknown city.
Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions and Related Texts in the Schoyen Collection
Over 100 new historical documents from the rulers of ancient Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria. Includes new text and edition of the Ur-Namma law code. Book adds tremendous amount of new material to our reconstruction of the history of ancient Mesopotamia.
Ur III Tablets from the Columbia University Libraries
The volume contains complete transliterations with accompanying in-text copies by Sauren, along with full transliterations and comprehensive indexes.
The Columbia University tablet collection has been known for over a century but only a handful of tablets has ever been published. The tablets relate directly to the extensive ......
