Late Babylonian Administrative and Legal Texts, Concerning Craftsmen, from the Eanna Archive

Late Babylonian Administrative and Legal Texts, Concerning Craftsmen, from the Eanna Archive - Yale Oriental Series: Cuneiform Texts

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Publisher's Synopsis

More than three hundred previously unpublished texts from the Yale Babylonian Collection   Yuval Levavi and Elizabeth E. Payne present 315 previously unpublished texts held in the Yale Babylonian Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum. The texts shed light on textile and metal workers in the Eanna temple in Uruk during the Neo-Babylonian Period, about 626 to 539 BCE. This volume of the Yale Oriental Series features a full edition of each text, including hand copies, transliterations, translations, and essential commentary, allowing unprecedented access to these primary sources.

Book information

ISBN: 9780300271904
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 408
Weight: -1g
Height: 287mm
Width: 213mm