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The tablets belong to the late fourth millennium BCE and range from proto-literate to Uruk III/Jemdet-Nasr periods.
The texts presented in this volume are provided with photographs, copies, and transliterations. Seal impressions have been included separately. A list of new signs and sign variants is provided with complete ......
The Garshana archives detail the administration of various aspects of a household associated with the royal estate of the general and physician Shu-Kabta and his wife, the princess Simat-Ishtaran.
This book discusses the history, personages, and economic functioning of the site, in addition to the transliteration of 1527 texts. ......
Provides translations and full contexts for the terminology in the Garshana documents and is an indispensable tool for anyone working on texts from third-millennium Mesopotamia.
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the contents of ca. 1500 texts associated with the royal estate of the general and physician Shu-Kabta ......
This volume analyzes texts recording the administration of an ambitious construction project undertaken at Garshana by general Shu-Kabta, brother-in-law of the reigning king.
Analysis of the daily progress of work on a flourmill, brewery, kitchen, textile mill, craftsmen's shops, residences, warehouses, and the wall that enclosed ......
Essays on slavery, religion, foods, industries, natural resources, physicians, military matters, and language of a city in late third-millennium BC Sumer.
A Late Old Babylonian Temple Archive from Dur-Abiesu?
Contains transliteration, translation, and copies of 89 texts, plus excellent drawings and discussion of hundreds of seal impressions.
These texts add substantial information on the affairs of the city Dur-Abieshuh as well as on its relations to Nippur during a period when Nippur appears to have been partially abandoned in the 2nd ......
Babylonian Tablets from the First Sealand Dynasty in the Schoyen Collection
This volume contains copies and editions of 474 cuneiform tablets inscribed with records of the First Sealand Dynasty.
The texts consist of letters and administrative texts dated to the reigns of two kings: Peshgaldaramesh and Ayadaragalama, sons of Gulkishar, who were previously unknown beyond laconic references in ......
