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Early Dynastic mu-iti Cereal Texts in the Cornell University Cuneiform Collections
Economic documents dealing with the administration and distribution of barley, emmer, flour, seed, malt, bread, and wheat in Sumer in the middle of the third millennium BC
Classical Sargonic Tablets Chiefly from Adab in the Cornell University Collections
These texts add significantly to our understanding of Sargonic history, socio-economics, lexicography and language.
Chapter 1 deals with the possible provenance of the tablets, their dating, and a discussion on some remarkable aspects of the data provided (e.g., archives, calendar, cultic activities). Chapters 2, 3 and 4 include ......
Early Dynastic and Early Sargonic Tablets from Adab
transliteration, translation, and commentary on 369 Sargonic texts from ancient Adab
Detail: Visicato and Westenholz have provided an in-depth introduction to the historical issues raised by these texts along with full transliterations, critical apparatus, translations and indexes. Excellent photos accompany the texts in the ......
Babylonian Tablets from the First Sealand Dynasty in the Schoyen Collection
This volume contains copies and editions of 474 cuneiform tablets inscribed with records of the First Sealand Dynasty.
The texts consist of letters and administrative texts dated to the reigns of two kings: Peshgaldaramesh and Ayadaragalama, sons of Gulkishar, who were previously unknown beyond laconic references in ......
A Late Old Babylonian Temple Archive from Dur-Abiesu?
Contains transliteration, translation, and copies of 89 texts, plus excellent drawings and discussion of hundreds of seal impressions.
These texts add substantial information on the affairs of the city Dur-Abieshuh as well as on its relations to Nippur during a period when Nippur appears to have been partially abandoned in the 2nd ......
Essays on slavery, religion, foods, industries, natural resources, physicians, military matters, and language of a city in late third-millennium BC Sumer.
This volume analyzes texts recording the administration of an ambitious construction project undertaken at Garshana by general Shu-Kabta, brother-in-law of the reigning king.
Analysis of the daily progress of work on a flourmill, brewery, kitchen, textile mill, craftsmen's shops, residences, warehouses, and the wall that enclosed ......
