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The Ikūn-pîša letter archive from Tell ed-Dēr (IPLA))

Title
The Ikūn-pîša letter archive from Tell ed-Dēr (IPLA)) / by Rients de Boer ; copies by Kh. Al-Adhami and D.O. Edzard ; photographs by W. Sommerfeld and N. Muhammad.
Author
Boer, Rients de, 1981-
Publication
Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten ; Leuven : Peeters, 2021.

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Description
xiv, 255 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm.
Summary
This volume sees the publication of fifty-six early Old Babylonian letters from ca. 1880 BCE. They were found by legendary Iraqi archaeologist Taha Baqir in 1941 at the site of Tell ed-Der, ancient Sippar-Amnanum, in central Iraq. The letters are written in an early dialect of Akkadian and are part of the archives of an ancient firm. This firm consisted of a number of families engaged in local agriculture, the manufacturing of textiles, crediting, and international trade. As such it was part of the same larger trade networks as those already known from the contemporary Old Assyrian archives found in central Turkey. The firm strived to have good relations with local Amorite rulers, such as Sumu-la-El, the first king of Babylon, and they used their own trading agents to represent them in far-away cities such as Mari. For these reasons, the letters are also an important source for Babylonia's political and socio-economic history.
Series Statement
PIHANS, 0926-9568 ; volume CXXXI
Uniform Title
Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden ; 131.
Subject
  • To 634
  • Antiquities
  • Der Site (Iraq)
  • Iraq > Antiquities
  • Iraq > History > To 634 > Sources
  • Iraq
  • Iraq > Der Site
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Sources.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169) and index.
Call Number
JFF 21-640
ISBN
  • 9789042943155
  • 9042943157
LCCN
9789042943155
OCLC
1250252622
Author
Boer, Rients de, 1981- author.
Title
The Ikūn-pîša letter archive from Tell ed-Dēr (IPLA)) / by Rients de Boer ; copies by Kh. Al-Adhami and D.O. Edzard ; photographs by W. Sommerfeld and N. Muhammad.
Publisher
Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten ; Leuven : Peeters, 2021.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
PIHANS, 0926-9568 ; volume CXXXI
Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden ; 131.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169) and index.
Chronological Term
To 634
Other Form:
9789042943162 e-book version
Other Standard Identifier
9789042943155
Research Call Number
JFF 21-640
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