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Third-Millennium Legal and Administrative Texts in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad

J N Postgate author Piotr Steinkeller author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press

Published:30th Jun '92

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This volume presents the legal and administrative texts in the Iraq Museum at Baghdad that date to the Fara, Pre-Sargonic, and Sargonic periods, and that stem from illicit excavations. Sixty-eight of the seventy-four texts presented are published for the first time. Steinkeller’s introduction precedes the transliteration and translation of the texts, and the volume concludes with Postgate’s copies of all the texts.

“This is a handsome and well-edited book, in every respect a pleasure to handle as well as to read.”

—Aage Westenholz Journal of the American Oriental Society


“Steinkeller's imposing, detailed knowledge of the text corpora of the periods treated, of text formulae and in particular of third-millennium lexicography, leads his discussions of the respective texts into highly interesting avenues of thought, with a number of provocative and timely excurses.”

—R. K. Englund Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

ISBN: 9780931464607

Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 19mm

Weight: 635g

176 pages