The Neo-Babylonian Records from Ur from the Hall Collection of the British Museum [Hardcover]

Radoslaw Tarasewicz presents editions of 65 hitherto unpublished records of Ur in southern Mesopotamia dating from the time of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid rulers. The edition comprises drawings, transcriptions, translations and philological notes. It is supplemented by extensive prosopographical and archival studies.Radoslaw Tarasewicz presents editions of 65 hitherto unpublished records of Ur in southern Mesopotamia dating from the time of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid rulers. The edition comprises drawings, transcriptions, translations and philological notes. It is supplemented by extensive prosopographical and archival studies.PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. A BRIEF HISTORY OF UR IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BC 1.2. EXCAVATIONS AT UR 2. THE TEXTS 2.1. TYPOLOGY 2.2. CHRONOLOGY 2.2.1. Chronology and condition of the tablets 2.2.2. Chronological distribution of the texts 2.3. SEAL IMPRESSIONS 2.4. FINGERNAILS 2.5. TOPONYMS 2.5.1. Place names 2.5.2. Temples 2.5.3. Rivers and canals 2.6. SCRIBES AND WITNESSES 2.6.1. Scribes 2.6.2. Witnesses 3. ARCHIVES 3.1. THE EARLY ARCHIVE 3.2. THE IMBIA ARCHIVE 3.2.1. Records included in the archive with doubt 3.2.2. Summing up the Imbia Family 3.2.3. Relation of the Imbia Family with other familes 3.2.4. The members of the Imbia Family in UET 4 3.3. RECORDS OF AN INSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUND 3.4. DOCUMENTS WITHOUT CONNECTION TO ANY ARCHIVE 3.5. POORLY PRESERVED RECORDS 4. CATALOGUE 5. INDICES 5.1. PERSONAL NAMES 5.2. FAMILY NAMES 5.3. DIVINE NAMES 5.4. ROYAL NAME 6. TEXT EDITIONS 6.1. SALE OF INHERITED SHARE TO A BROTHER 6.2. GIFT OF SLAVES, FIELD AND A HOUSE BY HUSBAND TO HIS WIFE 6.3. GIFT OF HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT 6.4. OATH 6.5. %EPISNUTU CONTRACT 6.6. INVESTIGATION BEFORE THE DEPUTY 6.7. PROMISSORY NOTES 6.8. IMITTU DEBT NOTES 6.9. RECEIPTS 6.10. ACCOUNTS 6.11. INVENTORIES 6.12. NOTE WITH FIELDS DESCRIPTION 6.13. LETTERS 6.14. UNIDENTIFIED LEGAL Rl³*