Ur Excavations Texts Volume VI: Literary and Religious Texts, Third Part

by Aaron Shaffer and Marie-Christine Ludwig

This is the third and last part of the publication of the Sumerian and Akkadian literary, religious and scholastic texts deriving from the famous excavations by Sir Leonard Woolley at Ur of the Chaldees in southern Iraq. The texts cover almost the whole range of Sumerian literature as known from the Old Babylonian period (c. 1800 BC), and complement similar material found by American archaeologists in the great literary archives of Nippur. Many of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714111619
• ISBN13: 9780714111612
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: British Museum Press
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 11.9"