Late Babylonian Administrative and Legal Texts, Concerning Craftsmen, from the Eanna Archive

Download or read book Late Babylonian Administrative and Legal Texts, Concerning Craftsmen, from the Eanna Archive written by Yuval Levavi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three hundred previously unpublished texts from the Yale Babylonian Collection Yuval Levavi and Elizabeth E. Payne present 315 previously unpublished texts held in the Yale Babylonian Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum. The texts shed light on textile and metal workers in the Eanna temple in Uruk during the Neo-Babylonian Period, about 626 to 539 BCE. This volume of the Yale Oriental Series features a full edition of each text, including hand copies, transliterations, translations, and essential commentary, allowing unprecedented access to these primary sources.