Author : British Museum. Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum: without special title by : British Museum. Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities
Download or read book Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum: without special title written by British Museum. Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue is the third in a series publishing the whole collection of Babylonian and Sumerian tablets in the British Museum. In this volume, over 7,000 tablets acquired in the years 1898-99 are described. They include Sumerian tablets from the administrative archives of the district of Lagash of the time of the Third Dynasty of Ur, Old Babylonian tablets from the cities of Kisurra, Larsa, Sippar and Uruk, and tablets of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods from Babylon and Borsippa. There is also a small number of literary and historical texts.