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Cuneiform inscriptions --- Babylonia --- History --- Sources --- Cuneiform inscriptions. --- Sources. --- Inscriptions, Cuneiform --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Achaemenian inscriptions --- Cuneiform writing --- Old Persian inscriptions --- Vavilonii︠a︡ --- Bavel --- Bābil --- Babylonien --- Sumer --- Babylonia - History - Sources

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Akkadian language --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Inscriptions cunéiformes akkadiennes --- Texts --- Textes --- Schyen Collection --- Babylonia --- Babylonie --- History --- Sources --- Histoire --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. --- Schøyen Collection. --- Inscriptions cunéiformes akkadiennes --- Schøyen Collection --- Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions --- Schøyen Collection of Western Manuscripts --- Vavilonii︠a︡ --- Bavel --- Bābil --- Babylonien --- Sumer --- Akkadian language - Texts --- Babylonia - History - Sources --- Akkadien (langue)

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For over 40 years, Jack M. Sasson has been studying and commenting on the cuneiform archives from Mari on the Euphrates River, especially those from the age of Hammurabi of Babylon. Among Mari’s wealth of documents, some of the most interesting are letters from and to kings, their advisers and functionaries, their wives and daughters, their scribes and messengers, and a variety of military personnel. The letters are revealing and often poignant. Sasson selects more than 700 letters as well as several excerpts from administrative documents, translating them and providing them with illuminating comments. In distilling a lifetime of study and interpretation, Sasson hopes to welcome readers into a fuller appreciation of a remarkable period in Mesopotamian civilization.Sasson’s presentation is organized around major institutions in an ancient culture: (1) Kingship, treating accumulation of wealth, control of vassals, dynastic marriages, treaty-obligations, as well as illustrating the hazards and vexation of ruling a large territory; (2) Administration, from palaces that teem with bureaucrats, musicians, and cooks, to the management of provinces and vassal kingdoms; (3) Warfare, military establishment and martial practices; (4) Society, including organs of justice (and shortcuts to it), crime, punishment, and civil transactions; (5) Religion, including notices on diverse pantheons, rituals, priesthood, cultic paraphernalia, vows, ordeals, and channels to the gods (divination, dreams, and prophecy); and (6) Culture, including ethnic distinctions, class structure, and moments in the life cycle (birth, childhood, family life, health matters, death, and commemoration).Sasson’s presentation of the material brings to life a world entombed for four millennia, concretizes the realities of ancient life, and gives it a human perspective that is at once instructive and entertaining.The book is accompanied by extensive concordances and indexes (including to biblical passages) that will be useful to those who wish to study the letters more intensively.

Amorites --- Assyro-Babylonian letters --- Inscriptions --- History --- Babylonia --- Mari (Extinct city) --- Antiquities --- Antiquities. --- Amorites - History - Sources --- Assyro-Babylonian letters - Syria - Mari (Extinct city) --- Assyro-Babylonian letters - Translations into English --- Inscriptions - Syria - Mari (Extinct city) --- Mari (Extinct city) - History - Sources --- Babylonia - History - Sources --- Mari (Extinct city) - Antiquities

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Amel-Marduk (561?560 BC), Neriglissar (559?556 BC), and Nabonidus (555?539 BC) were the last native kings of Babylon. In this modern scholarly edition of the complete extant corpus of royal inscriptions from each of their reigns, Frauke Weiershäuser and Jamie Novotny provide updated and reliable editions of the texts.0The kings of the Neo-Babylonian Empire left hundreds of official inscriptions on objects such as clay cylinders, bricks, paving stones, vases, and stelae. These writings, ranging from lengthy narratives enumerating the deeds of a monarch to labels identifying a ruler as the builder of a given structure, supplement and inform our understanding of the empire. Beginning with a historical introduction to the reigns of these three kings and the corpus of inscriptions, Weiershäuser and Novotny then present each text with an introduction, a photograph of the inscribed object, the Akkadian text in a newly collated transliteration, an English translation, catalogue data, commentary, and an updated bibliography. Additionally, Weiershäuser and Novotny provide new translations of several related Akkadian texts and chronicles.0Featuring meticulous yet readable transliterations and translations that have been carefully collated with the originals, this book will be the standard edition for scholars and students of Assyriology, the Neo-Babylonian dialect, and the Neo-Babylonian Empire for decades to come.

Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian --- Akkadian language --- Amel-Marduk, --- Neriglissar, --- Nabonidus, --- Babylonia --- History --- Kings and rulers --- Akkadian language - Texts --- Amel-Marduk, - King of Babylonia, - -560 B.C. --- Neriglissar, - King of Babylonia, - -556 B.C. --- Nabonidus, - King of Babylonia, - active 6th century B.C. --- Babylonia - History - Sources --- Babylonia - Kings and rulers

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Hemerologies from ancient Mesopotamia, including lucky days, Babylonian almanac, and eclipse, prostration, bread, moon, and 7th month hemerologies.

Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Forecasting --- Learning and scholarship --- Social aspects --- History --- Religious aspects --- Assyria --- Babylonia --- Iraq --- Intellectual life --- Social life and customs --- Equidae --- Equidae, Fossil --- Equidae. --- Equidae, Fossil. --- Pferde. --- Domestikation. --- To 634. --- To 634 --- Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Education --- Learned institutions and societies --- Research --- Scholars --- Forecasts --- Futurology --- Prediction --- Assyro-Babylonian calendar --- Babylonian calendar --- Irak --- Rāfidayn, Bilād --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Republic of Iraq --- Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah --- Vavilonii︠a︡ --- Bavel --- Bābil --- Babylonien --- Sumer --- Assur (Kingdom) --- Asshur (Kingdom) --- Horses --- Horses. --- Iraq. --- Mesopotamien. --- Horses - Iraq - History - To 634 --- Equidae - Iraq - History - To 634 --- Equidae, Fossil - Iraq --- Forecasting - Social aspects - History - To 1500 - Sources --- Forecasting - Religious aspects - History - To 1500 - Sources --- Learning and scholarship - Assyria - History - Sources --- Learning and scholarship - Iraq - Babylonia - History - Sources --- Assyria - Intellectual life - Sources --- Babylonia - Intellectual life - Sources --- Assyria - Social life and customs - Sources --- Babylonia - Social life and customs - Sources --- Iraq - History - To 634 - Sources