Texts from the Late Old Babylonian Period

by Seth F.C. Richardson

Book cover: Texts from the Late Old Babylonian Period

Extent: 232 pages

Publisher: American Society of Overseas Research

Subjects: Ancient Near East

Series: Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplemental Series

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(March 2011)

ISBN: 9780897570848

Price: $75.00

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This volume publishes and discusses 186 cuneiform documents from the Late Old Babylonian period (1683-1595 B.C.), including 95 hand copies, mostly from Sippar texts in British Museum collections. The Late O.B. epoch marks the last of five centuries of uninterrupted textual production in lower Mesopotamia.


This volume publishes and discusses 186 cuneiform documents from the Late Old Babylonian period (1683-1595 B.C.), including 95 hand copies, mostly from Sippar texts in British Museum collections. The Late O.B. epoch marks the last of five centuries of uninterrupted textual production in lower Mesopotamia. This selection of texts focuses mostly on less well-known text types of the time, reflecting innovations in documentary practices – some isolated to the period, others precursive to the Kassite period. In extensive notes, the reader will find discussions of provisioning systems, chronology, terminologies, land redistribution and ritual and military economies, in addition to the expected apparatus of indexes, concordances and catalogues.

  • By (author) Seth F.C. Richardson