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9781575067315 Academic Inspection Copy

From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe

Literary and Scholarly Texts from the Old Babylonian Period
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English translations covering a variety of cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period, belonging to the collection of the late Shlomo Moussaieff.


Preface

General Introduction

I. Gilgameš and the Bull of Heaven

Introduction

Outline of the Plot

Political-Historical Background

Description of the Moussaieff Tablet (ShM)

Composite Text and Translation

Commentary

Score

The Mussaieff Tablet

Transliteration .

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Photographs

Word Index

II. An Old Babylonian Bilingual Lexical Text

Introduction

Transliteration and Translation

Commentary

Sequence of Basic Sign Forms

Comparative Synopsis of KA, IGI, and KU in the Syllabaries ShM, Proto-Ea, and Ea

Comparative Synopsis of Syllabaries —

Number of Lexical Entries

Syllabary

Sumerian-Akkadian Word Index

Akkadian-Sumerian Word Index

Photographs

III. Lenticular School Tablets

Introduction

Collection A (nos. 1–10)

Collection B (nos. 46–69)

Word Index

Bibliography and Abbreviations

General Index


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