Third-Millennium Legal and Administrative Texts in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad
By Piotr Steinkeller and J. N. Postgate
Third-Millennium Legal and Administrative Texts in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad
By Piotr Steinkeller and J. N. Postgate
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.
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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.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Plates
Introduction
Concordance of Texts
Texts 1-74: Transliteration and Translation
Fara (no)
Pre-Sargonic (nos-12)
Lagas (no)
Umma (no)
Isin (nos-6)
Unknown Provenience (nos-12)
Sargonic (nos-74)
Umma: Earlier (nos-21)
Umma: Later (nos-32)
‘Sagub’ (nos-45)
Isin (no)
Mukdan (nos-49)
Diyala Region (nos-51)
Unknown Provenience: Sumerian (nos-71)
Unknown Provenience: Akkadian (nos-74)
Indexes
Personal Names
Divine Names
Geographical and Topographical Names
Words Discussed
Plates
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