Corpus of Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art III: Private Archive Texts from the First Millennium B.C.

by Linda Bregstein, Ira Spar, Eva von Dassow, et al.

Book Overview

This series of scholarly publications focuses on the collection of cuneiform tablets and inscriptions in the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art. These objects were acquired largely during the 1880s, when the Metropolitan became the first American museum to collect a substantial number of cuneiform texts. Today the Museum's holdings total about six hundred texts and fragments. The four volumes in this series will make these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503509274
• ISBN13: 9782503509273
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 540 Pages