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This volume is a continuation of the publication of the
correspondence of Sargon II begun in SAA 1. The letters published
in this volume are of special interest because of the particular
geographical area from which they originate. This area extends, in
the shape of a broad crescent, roughly from the Euphrates of the
Diyala river, surround and enclosing the Mesopotamian plain to the
north and to the NE. From the geographical point of view, the
various territories which lie in this wide area all share a common
feature: they represent the transition from the alluvial plain or
the piedmont to the highlands of Anatolia and Iran, such as the
eastern Taurus or the Zagros chain.
The State Archives of Assyria project is an ambitious computerized
program that aims to present the entire extant corpus of
Neo-Assyrian texts in transliteration and translation. The present
volume is one of four to be devoted to the correspondence of
Sargon, founder of the last imperial dynasty of Assyria, and his
officials. 258 letters are treated, many of which have previously
appeared only in cuneiform copies; three fragments were hitherto
quite unpublished. The text editions-transliterations and
translations side by side, with a minimum of apparatus criticus-are
liberally interspersed with photographs and line-drawings of
basreliefs from various Assyrian palaces, which illustrate passages
in the correspondence. A glossary introduces the various indexes.
The volume closes with autograph collations of difficult or broken
passages.
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