Sumerian Business And Administrative Documents From The Earliest Times To The Dynasty Of Agade Classic Reprint

Author : C. J. Gadd
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331653441
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book The Early Dynasties of Sumer and Akkad (Classic Reprint) written by C. J. Gadd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Early Dynasties of Sumer and Akkad As a result of this rearrangement it has appeared that the total gap between the end of L. VI and the beginning of L. VII is about 30 lines, and might be rather more. The next Space, which extends from the middle of the Agade kingdom to the beginning of Gutium, may be similarly filled from the contents of 1088 57. It would be tedious to repeat the actual process here, and in this case the result may be barely stated: this gap appears to comprise some 36 lines. The beginning of L. IX contains the summary of the Gutium dynasty, and here, as we do not possess the missing portions, no very precise reckoning is possible. But L. Enumerated 21 kings in this dynasty, and four are preserved in Col. VIII. This would leave 17 more to be entered, and, allowing two lines to each king, we might arrive at a rough total of 34 lines missing between L. VIII - IX. The result of these calculations is that we have three spaces which contained approximately 30, 36, and 34 lines, from which the average of 33 or 34 is readily obtained, and, while there is, of course, no mathematical exactitude about these figures, they may still be sufficient to constitute a working formula. It should, perhaps, be added that, in each case, what seems to be the smallest possible number of lines has been allowed, and that the average therefore represents a minimum computation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.