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Provides translations and full contexts for the terminology in the Garshana documents and is an indispensable tool for anyone working on texts from third-millennium Mesopotamia.
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the contents of ca. 1500 texts associated with the royal estate of the general and physician Shu-Kabta ......
The Garshana archives detail the administration of various aspects of a household associated with the royal estate of the general and physician Shu-Kabta and his wife, the princess Simat-Ishtaran.
This book discusses the history, personages, and economic functioning of the site, in addition to the transliteration of 1527 texts. ......
The tablets belong to the late fourth millennium BCE and range from proto-literate to Uruk III/Jemdet-Nasr periods.
The texts presented in this volume are provided with photographs, copies, and transliterations. Seal impressions have been included separately. A list of new signs and sign variants is provided with complete ......
The Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts
This is a book about curses. It is not about curses as insults or offensive language but curses as petitions to the divine world to render judgment and execute harm on identified, hostile forces.
In the ancient world, curses functioned in a way markedly different from our own, and it is into the world of the ancient ......
The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium B.C.
This long-anticipated work is the final volume of the CTMMA series and completes the publication of all the cuneiform-inscribed tablets and inscriptions (excluding those on sculptures, reliefs, and seals) in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Published are 183 texts that include 154 cuneiform tablets and tablet fragments, one ......
"A collection of drawings of 330 cuneiform tablet, found in the academic papers of W. G. Lambert, one of the foremost Assyriologists of the twentieth century. Texts range from historical inscriptions to literary and scholarly texts, written by Babylonian and Assyrian scribes"--
A collection of drawings of 330 cuneiform tablet, found in the academic papers of W. G. Lambert, one of the foremost Assyriologists of the twentieth century. Texts range from historical inscriptions to literary and scholarly texts, written by Babylonian and Assyrian ......
Presents the full corpus of all 91 cuneiform tablets and inscribed objects that have been recovered from the Land of Israel, including cuneiform tablets from the Bronze Age cities of Canaan, texts from the cities of the Philistines, and inscriptions from the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel.
