Letters from Old Babylonian Kish
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts
ISBN-10
0198817584
ISBN-13
9780198817581
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 16th, 2025
Print length
496 Pages
Weight
1,698 grams
Dimensions
30.20 x 22.00 x 2.60 cms
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Letters from Old Babylonian Kish presents the primary publication of previously unstudied letters from the Old Babylonian Period. The volume provides a reconstruction of a virtual archive of more than 200 letters from Old Babylonian Kish. Until at least 1600 BC.
Letters from Old Babylonian Kish presents the primary publication of previously unstudied letters from the Old Babylonian Period. Drawing on internal and external evidence, the volume illuminates connections between these letters and other tablets housed in collections in Europe and the USA. The result is the reconstruction of a virtual archive of more than 200 letters from Old Babylonian Kish. Until at least 1600 BC, the compiled archive represents the largest group of related letters from southern Mesopotamia. Although these letters moved into various museums through the antiquities market in the early 1900s, many remained unstudied and unpublished, despite providing many pristine examples of personal and professional correspondence. The study of scribal hands and habits has been aided by the gathering of so many related letters, allowing the identification of four distinct scribal hands. The volume includes an extensive introduction, treating Old Babylonian epistolography and scribal hands.
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