A Study of Writing

Gelb, I. J.

Reference

University of Chicago

This volume presents transliterations of texts in the Ashmolean Museum, most of which are from Kish and Umm-el-Jir, near Kish. A few texts of unknown origin have also been included. The majority of these tablets are standard administrative texts such as are found in other great collections of Sargonic texts from Gasur, the Diyala region, Lagash, and Susa. A small but important group of texts consists of contracts or memos concerning contractual agreements. Other types of texts are also represented, including letters, orders, school exercises, and one incantation. This is the first collection of Sargonic texts from northern Babylonia. One of the most important contributions of the Kish and Umm-el-Jir texts is the light they shed on the geography and ethno-linguistic background of Babylonia; forty geographic names are mentioned, the most common being Mugdan, which may represent the ancient name of Umm-el-Jir. Indices of proper names and a catalogue of texts are included. One hundred and thirteen tablets are presented in photographic reproduction.

Sargonic Texts in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Materials for the Assyrian Dictionary)

History

Ancient Civilizations

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

<p>`Computer aided' is somewhat daunting in books dating from 1980 but the underlying purpose of this book, to provide linguistically ordered lists of 6,662 proper names excerpted from Sumerian and Akkadian texts, remains useful since most of our knowledge of the non-Akkadian Semitic dialect comes from these names.</p>

Computer Aided Analysis of Amorite (ASSYRIOLOGICAL STUDIES)

Middle East

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

<p>This two volume set offers the first complete edition of the ancient 'kudurrus' (Uruk III-Sargonic land grant contracts) combined with detailed discussion of the social and legal aspects of the documents. All 57 'kudurrus' are presented as photographs with transliterations, translations and full critical apparatus.</p>

Earliest Land Tenure Systems in the Near East: Ancient Kudurrus (Oriental Institute Publications)

Steinkeller, Piotr

Whiting, Robert M. Jr

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