Administration at Girsu in Gudea’s Time

The book offers the edition of all presently known administrative texts from Girsu (modern Telloh, Iraq), dated to the Lagash II period (XXII century BCE). The evidence consists of roughly 600 cuneiform tablets – including 34 published here for the first time – that are presently scattered over various collections (mostly in London, Paris, Istanbul, Strasbourg, Dublin). They are of enormous historical value, in that they provide unique information for the reconstruction of urbanization, political affairs, and social developments in Mesopotamia at the time of Gudea, the most notable figure of his dynasty, and of his son Urningirsu II

Classical Sargonic Tablets Chiefly from Adab in the Cornell University Collections Part II.

The book contains an in-depth treatment of a group of a previously unpublished cuneiform texts from third millennium southern Mesopotamia, which add significantly to our understanding of Sargonic history, socio-economics, and lexicography. It contains a lengthy discussion of the reconstruction of the Adab calendar and an updated Sargonic sign-list is included

Administration at Girsu in Gudea’s Time

The book offers the edition of all presently known administrative texts from Girsu (modern Telloh, Iraq), dated to the Lagash II period (XXII century BCE). The evidence consists of roughly 600 cuneiform tablets – including 34 published here for the first time – that are presently scattered over various collections (mostly in London, Paris, Istanbul, Strasbourg, Dublin). They are of enormous historical value, in that they provide unique information for the reconstruction of urbanization, political affairs, and social developments in Mesopotamia at the time of Gudea, the most notable figure of his dynasty, and of his son Urningirsu II

Early Dynastic and Early Sargonic Administrative Texts Mainly from the Umma Region in the Cornell University Cuneifrom Collections

This book provides the edition of 298 cuneiform tablets: 277 of them from the Umma region and can be dated to the ED IIIb period, with the exception of no. 233, which is dated to the fifth year of the reign of Ennānum, one of the Akkadian governors of Umma appointed by Śarrumkēn after the defeat of Lugalzagesi