This catalogue publishes copies of 139 previously unpublished neo-Sumerian economic texts from Drehem which were formerly in the collections of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. All the necessary critical apparatus for study of the texts is provided, including the history of the collection, content and type of texts, indexes and concordance, notes and plates, but not transliterations and translations. Future volumes will cover UR III texts from Umma, Old Akkadian, Old Babylonian, and Neo-Babylonian/Persian period tablets.
112pp.4to; 42 plates; (1986) pb 356 6 $35 / £16.50
This volume makes available 300 neo-Sumerian economic texts formerly in the Wellcome collection. The majority of the tablets in this volume are from Umma though a few are from Lagash. All are economic in nature but deal with a variety of commodities: animals, workers, silver, baskets and reeds, garments, oils, fish, beer, barley and rations.
272pp.4to; 135 pls; (1993) pb 387 6 $35 / £16.50
c.200pp.4to; illus; pb 388 4 (In preparation)
J. Watson Deputy Keeper of Archaeology at Birmingham City Museum, formerly Baghdad Secretary to the British Archaeological expedition to Iraq.
|
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I
|
SOME COMMENTS BY REVIEWERS
Volume 1
"the information on 'Collection History' and 'Dimensions' is valuable." Journal of Semitic Studies
"This volume makes a nice addition to the growing corpus of Ur III texts." J.N.E.S.
Volume 2
"this is a welcome addition to the corpus of Neo-Sumerian arhival texts and includes some important additions to the stereo-typical text types ... Although this publication is addressed primarily to Assyriologists, its thorough indexes open up its riches to a wider audience." Religious Studies Review
