This book makes available to scholars for the first time
transcriptions of 313 clay tablets preserved in the Yale Babylonian
Collection. The tablets date from the reign of Nabonidus, the last
king of Babylon, who presided over the destiny of the
Neo-Babylonian empire from 556 B.C. until its conquest by the
Persians in 539 B.C. Representing a significant addition to the
body of primary sources that illuminate the social and economic
history of this transitional era, these clay documents include
mainly administrative records and legal transactions, along with a
few letters.
Each tablet was written in the Akkadian language using the
cuneiform script invented in Mesopotamia at the end of the fourth
millennium B.C. Paul-Alain Beaulieu's transcriptions of the tablets
are presented in autographed facsimile copies. The author also
provides an introduction to the volume, a register and descriptive
catalogue of the texts, and indexes of personal names, geographical
names, and names of gods and temples appearing in the texts. This
outstanding collection affords important new access to the history
of Mesopotamian civilization during its last phase as an
independent political and cultural entity.
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