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Tablets from the Iri-saĝrig Archive (Hardcover)
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Tablets from the Iri-saĝrig Archive (Hardcover)
Series: CUSAS
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While each of the previously known archives from the Third Dynasty
of Ur has provided distinct views of Sumerian society, those from
Iri-Saĝrig present an extraordinary range of new sources,
depicting a cosmopolitan Sumerian/Akkadian city unlike any other
from this period. In this publication, Marcel Sigrist and Tohru
Ozaki present more than two thousand newly identified tablets,
mostly from Iri-Saĝrig. This unique and extensive corpus
elucidates the importance that Iri-Saĝrig represented politically,
militarily, and culturally in Sumer. Although these tablets were
not able to be cleaned, baked, or photographed, the authors’
transliterations are based on the original tablets, often after
repeated collations. Moreover, access to so many well-preserved
tablets made it possible to improve upon the readings and
interpretations offered in previous publications. Volume 1 contains
a catalog and classification of the texts by provenance, a list of
month names and year formulas, another of inscriptions, a
chronological listing of the texts, and extensive indexes of
personal names, deities, toponyms, and selected words and phrases.
Volume 2 presents the texts in transliteration with substantial
commentary. This two-volume publication preserves and makes
available to the scholarly community a significant segment of
Iraq’s cultural legacy that otherwise might have been ignored or
even lost. It will augment and enhance our understanding of the
unique civilization of Mesopotamia in the late third millennium
BCE.
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