From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe: Literary and Scholarly Texts from the Old Babylonian Period

by Jacob Klein and Yitschak Sefati

This volume presents first editions of a variety of cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period belonging to the collection of the late Shlomo Moussaieff. It makes available for the first time three texts representing varying levels of Mesopotamian scribal education. The first is what the authors argue is the most complete copy of the first fifty lines of the standard version of the Sumerian epic Gilgames and the Bull of Heaven. The second...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575067315
• ISBN13: 9781575067315
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.5"