Cuneiform Documents from Hellenistic Uruk - Yale Oriental Series. Babylonian Texts

Laurence Timothy Doty (author), Ronald Wallenfels (editor)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This volume completes publication of the cuneiform documents of the Hellenistic period in the Yale Babylonian Collection, begun by A. T. Clay in 1913. This long-awaited edition contains reproductions of 103 texts from the city of Uruk, dating to the period from Alexander the Great to the Parthian conquest of Seleucid Babylonia. The texts include both private business transactions (sales, deeds of gift, divisions of property, quitclaims, a work contract, a lease contract, and a receipt) and documents from the administrations of the greatest Uruk temples, the Res and Irigal.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780300185270
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Imprint:	Yale University Press
Pub date:	01 Feb 2013
DEWEY:	492.1
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	118 , cxciv of plates
Weight:	1096g
Height:	295mm
Width:	223mm
Spine width:	28mm