Late Achaemenid Texts from Šā7789er

The Archive of Šamaš-zēru-ibni. Part I

by Basima Abed and Johannes Hackl

Book cover: Late Achaemenid Texts from Šā7789er

Extent: 272 pages

Publisher: Zaphon

Subjects: Ancient Near East

Series: dubsar

Series volume number: 30

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2024)

ISBN: 9783963272523

6.65 x 9.41 inches

Price: $110.00

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ISBN: 9783963272530

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The 67 texts presented in this volume are part of a larger group of (Babylonian) Late Achaemenid legal documents from Saer, a city that is believed to be located somewhere in the area northwest of Uruk up to the outskirts of Nippur. Together with a brief introduction and indices, it included transliterations, autographed copies and photographs of a group of texts that were confiscated from illicit excavators by the Iraqi Antiquity Authorities as part of a larger group of texts now housed in the Iraq Museum. The common element that ties these texts together is their identical archival and commercial context; they can be identified as certain components of the archive belonging to Samas-zeru-ibni, son of Ayyana?ad, an agricultural entrepreneur who was active in and around the Southern Babylonian city Sater during the second half of the fifth century BCE.


The 67 texts presented in this volume are part of a larger group of (Babylonian) Late Achaemenid legal documents from Šāer, a city that is believed to be located somewhere in the area northwest of Uruk up to the outskirts of Nippur. Together with a brief introduction and indices, it included transliterations, autographed copies and photographs of a group of texts that were confiscated from illicit excavators by the Iraqi Antiquity Authorities as part of a larger group of texts now housed in the Iraq Museum. The common element that ties these texts together is their identical archival and commercial context; they can be identified as certain components of the archive belonging to Šamaš-zēru-ibni, son of Ayyanaˀad, an agricultural entrepreneur who was active in and around the Southern Babylonian city Šāṭer during the second half of the fifth century BCE.

  • By (author) Basima Abed
  • By (author) Johannes Hackl