J Nicholas Reid, Klaus Wagensonner

Letters from Old Babylonian Kish

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Produktbeschreibung

Letters from Old Babylonian Kish presents the primary publication of previously unstudied letters from the Old Babylonian Period. The volume provides a reconstruction of a virtual archive of more than 200 letters from Old Babylonian Kish. Until at least 1600 BC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198817581
• ISBN-10: 0198817584
• Artikelnr.: 71265694

Autorenporträt

J. Nicholas Reid is Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, where he also directs the Hybrid MDiv Program. He continues to maintain a research affiliation with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, where served as a Visiting Scholar after doctoral work at Oxford University. He primarily works on topics of social history and unpublished cuneiform tablets. Klaus Wagensonner is Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Assyriology at Yale Univiersity. He specializes in Sumerian literature and (early) lexicography in Mesopotamia. His PhD at the University of Vienna (2016) was a study on knowledge organization in the earliest cuneiform word lists. Between 2011 and 2015, he was part of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Between 2019 and 2022, he conducted the NEH-funded full digitization of the cuneiform artifacts housed in the Yale Babylonian Collection. He is currently working on a translation project, whose aim is to make the rich textual record in the Babylonian Collection accessible for a wider audience.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Text Catalogue
* Concordances
* The Texts
* I.: Letters sent by Etel-pî-Marduk (Nos. 1 40)
* II.: Letters sent by Gimil-Marduk (Nos. 41 48)
* III.: Letters addressed to Gimil-Marduk (Nos. 49 58)
* IV.: Letters sent by Munawwirum (Nos. 59 76)
* V.: Further letters addressed to Etel-pî-Marduk (Nos. 77 79)
* VI.: Letters sent by Yantin-erä (Nos. 80 86)
* VII.: Further letters addressed to Gimillia (Nos. 87 99)
* VIII.: Further letters addressed to the 'Superior' and similar
officials (Nos. 100 133)
* IX.: Further letters addressed to the 'Gentleman' (Nos. 134 156)
* X.: Letters addressed to the 'Father' (Nos. 157 160)
* XI.: Letters addressed to the Burgomaster (rabi¿num) (Nos. ?161
??162)
* XII.: Letters by judges and civic institutions (Nos. 163 164)
* XIII.: Varia (Nos. 165 191)
* XIV.: Address broken (Nos. 192 202)
* Bibliography
* Indexes
* Plates