| Literary Texts from Temple of Nabū Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud 4 Contributor(s): Black, Jeremy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0903472155 ISBN-13: 9780903472159 Publisher: British School of Archaeology in Iraq OUR PRICE: $76.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval |
| Dewey: 499 |
| Series: Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud |
| Physical Information: 72 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The library of Nimrud, probably established in 798 BC, was a prestigious royal foundation whose scribes had contacts all over the East, particularly with Nineveh. The 259 cuneiform tablets and fragments which constituted the library mainly described magical and medical rituals, prayers and instructions for training scribes. All the epigraphic finds from Sir Max Mallowan's excavations of 1955-7 are described in this volume, with additional material from the Iraq Archaeological Service's excavations of 1985. |
