The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West

by Simo Parpola

The State Archives of Assyria project is an ambitious computerized program that aims to present the entire extant corpus of Neo-Assyrian texts in transliteration and translation. The present volume is one of four to be devoted to the correspondence of Sargon, founder of the last imperial dynasty of Assyria, and his officials. 258 letters are treated, many of which have previously appeared only in cuneiform copies; three fragments were hitherto...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575063832
• ISBN13: 9781575063836
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"