Research Catalog

Title

Archaic Cuneiform Tablets From Private Collections / by Salvatore F. Monaco.

Author

Monaco, Salvatore F.

Publication

Bethesda, Maryland : CDL Press, 2016.

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Details

Description

x, 310 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.

Summary

"Copies and transliteration of the oldest cuneiform documents in the world, from Sumer in ancient Mesopotamia"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Cornell University studies in Assyriology and Sumerology (CUSAS) ; volume 31

Uniform Title

Cornell University studies in Assyriology and Sumerology ; v. 31.

Subject

• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
• Cuneiform tablets > Sumer
• Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian
• Sumerian language > Texts
• Antiquities
• Cuneiform tablets
• Sumerian language
• Sumer > Antiquities
• Sumer > History > Sources
• Middle East > Sumer
• Texts
• Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian
• Sumer

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources
• Texts

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Provenance -- Preliterate period -- Uruk IV period -- Uruk III/Jemdet Nasr period -- Lexical lists and school tablets -- Administrative tablets -- Prosopography -- Toponyms -- Time notations -- Administrative terms -- New signs and variants -- Seals -- Concordances -- Catalogue -- Texts -- Preliterate period -- Bullae -- Numerical tablets -- Uruk IV period -- Uruk III/Jemdet Nasr period -- School tablets -- Personnel -- Fields -- Animals -- Onagers -- Sheep and goats -- Fish -- Cattle -- Cereals -- Textiles -- Mixed commodities -- Rations -- Uncertain -- Addendum -- Seal impressions -- Preliterate period -- Uruk III/Jemdet Nasr Period -- New signs and sign variants -- Sign list -- Glossary.

ISBN

• 9781934309650 (alkaline paper)
• 1934309656 (alkaline paper)

LCCN

^^2015048875

OCLC

• 937366158
• SCSB-11839878

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library