Cuneiform texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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"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 acquir...

"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 texts available in a manner that will instruct and inform as wide an audience as possible"--Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Volume One: 120 ancient Mesopotamian texts from the Metropolitan Museum's extensive collection of cuneiform tablets are published here in a projected multi-volume edition. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Volume Two: This important scholarly work documents 106 religious, scientific, scholastic, and literary texts, written in Sumerian and Akkadian from cuneiform tablets in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is the second in a series of four volumes that will publish all of the Museum's more than six hundred cuneiform tablets and fragments. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Volume Three: Admits us to the private worlds of several of the leading financial families of Babylon during the Neo- and Late Babylonian periods of Mesopotamian history and illuminates the management and investment practices of family-run Babylonian enterprises. Four Assyrian tablets included here illustrate business practices during Neo-Assyrian times as well. The 164 texts and fragments that comprise the Museum's holdings from private family archives written during the first millennium B.C. are presented in a format that includes copies, transliterations, and commentary together with drawings, photographs, and commentary on stamp seal, cylinder seal, and ring impressions. --Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

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