Neo-Babylonian texts in the Oriental Institute collection
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Neo-Babylonian texts in the Oriental Institute collection
（The University of Chicago, Oriental Institute publications, v. 122）
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
The 173 texts contained in this volume were acquired by the Oriental Institute Tablet Collection over a long period of years from various sources. The texts are dated from 699 to 423 BC, during the Neo-Babylonian period. The more noteworthy subject matter of the texts includes an adoption document, sale of houses and a field (from the Nur-Sin archive), a "datio in solutum," a court protocol concerning a loan of silver with interest specified, a loan of silver with interest specified, proceedings in the assembly concerning personal status, a Mar Banutu text from the town of Hubat, a court record concerning the status of a freed person, a contract with fowlers to supply birds to Eanna, an inventory of the finery of the Lady-of-Uruk for craftsmen, a four-column list of precious objects, a two-column list of words, a tablet whose obverse records part of a contract and whose reverse is from Sb B, a fragment of an Akkadian religious text or medical or astrological commentary, and a fragment of a literary text. The book contains transliterations, translations, text notes, commentary, indices, and a mixture of hand-drawn copies and photographs of the tablets.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- List of plates
- Bibliography
- Introduction
- Descriptive catalog
- Transliterations, translations, and comments
- Datable texts in chronological order
- Concordance of museum numbers
- Indices
- Plates.
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