Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud
Author: J.V. Kinnier Wilson
Volume: I
Format: Hardback xv, 167p ; 29cm.
ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0-903472-00-5. ISBN-10: 0-903472-00-7
Price: £9.95
The Governor’s Palace Archive
Author: J.N. Postgate
Volume: II
Format: 283 pp., 98 plates of cuneiform and photos, hardback
ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0-903472-01-2. ISBN-10: 0-903472-01-5
Price: £9.95
The Tablets from Fort Shalmaneser
Author: S. Dalley & J.N. Postgate
Volume: III
Format: xii + 289 pp, 40 plates, hardback
ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0-903472-08-2. ISBN-10: 0-903472-08-2
Price: £30
Literary Texts from the Temple of Nabû
Author: D.J. Wiseman & J.A. Black
Volume: IV
Format: x + 62 pp., 157 plates, hardback
ISBN: 9780903472159
Price: £24.95
Notes:
The library of Nimrud, probably established in 798 BC, was a
prestigious royal foundation whose scribes had contacts all over the
East, particularly with Nineveh. The 259 cuneiform tablets and fragments
which constituted the library mainly described magical and medical
rituals, prayers and instructions for training scribes. All the
epigraphic finds from Sir Max Mallowan's excavations of 1955-7 are
described in this volume, with additional material from the Iraq
Archaeological Service's excavations of 1985.
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Literary Texts from the Temple of Nabû
Author: H.W.F. Saggs
Volume: V
Format: xii + 307 pp., 64 plates, hardback
ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0-903472-20-3; ISBN-10: 0-903472-20-1
Price: £40.00
Notes: In
1952 in one wing of the North-West Palace at Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Max
Mallowan excavated an archive room containing royal correspondence from
the reigns of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II of Assyria. Subjects
include Assyrian military activity in Babylonia and on the northern
frontier, royal building projects, events on the Phoenician seaboard,
and relations with King Midas of Phrygia. Some texts were published in
Iraq between 1955 and 1974; the majority have remained unpublished until
now. Two hundred and forty-three texts are published here; most are in
New Assyrian script and the remainder in New Babylonian. Chapters divide
the tablets into the geographical areas they are concerned with. The
texts are presented with transliterations, translation and notes. Plates
at the end of the book give facsimiles of the tablets.
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The Nimrud Letters 1952
Documents from the Nabu Temple and from Private Houses on the Citadel
Author: S. Herbordt, R. Mattila, B. Parker (†), J.N. Postgate and D.J. Wiseman (†)
Volume: VI
Format: Hardback, pp. i-viii, 340 including Plates I-VI, 1-44
ISBN: ISBN-10 0-903472-34-0
Notes:
This
penultimate volume of CTN provides an up-to-date edition and commentary
on two major archives from the Kalhu acropolis, from the field seasons
of 1953-1956: the business documents (mostly grain loans on triangular
dockets) and a few administrative texts from the Nabu Temple (Part I:
texts Nos. 1-59) and the legal documents from the household of
Šamaš-šarru-uṣur (Part II: Nos. 60-115); also included are three texts from the “Town Wall Palace” (Part III: Nos. 116-118). S.
Herbordt provides a new study of the seal impressions based on drawings
and photos, and photographs of both the impressions and unsealed
tablets are included where available. The handcopies on Plates 1-44 are from Wiseman, Parker, Postgate and Mattila.
Many of these texts were edited previously by Wiseman and Parker in articles in Iraq, but some were only catalogued and others had lain for years uncopied in both the Iraq Museum and the British Museum. Bringing
them all together has enabled a more detailed study of the two main
archives with the benefit of the advances in our understanding of
Neo-Assyrian over the last half century. This gives a valuable insight into the activities of both a major temple and an elite household in the 8th-7th centuries BC.
CTN 6.pdf
Notes:This penultimate volume of CTN provides an up-to-date edition and commentary on two major archives from the Kalhu acropolis, from the field seasons of 1953-1956: the business documents (mostly grain loans on triangular dockets) and a few administrative texts from the Nabu Temple (Part I: texts Nos. 1-59) and the legal documents from the household of Šamaš-šarru-uṣur (Part II: Nos. 60-115); also included are three texts from the “Town Wall Palace” (Part III: Nos. 116-118). S. Herbordt provides a new study of the seal impressions based on drawings and photos, and photographs of both the impressions and unsealed tablets are included where available. The handcopies on Plates 1-44 are from Wiseman, Parker, Postgate and Mattila.Many of these texts were edited previously by Wiseman and Parker in articles in Iraq, but some were only catalogued and others had lain for years uncopied in both the Iraq Museum and the British Museum. Bringing them all together has enabled a more detailed study of the two main archives with the benefit of the advances in our understanding of Neo-Assyrian over the last half century. This gives a valuable insight into the activities of both a major temple and an elite household in the 8th-7th centuries BC.
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