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

Subject: Ancient Near East

Series: dubsar

Series volume number: 30

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2024)

ISBN: 9783963272523

6.65 x 9.45 inches

Price: $110.00

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(December 2024)

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 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