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Umma Messenger Texts from Harvard and the YBC, Part 1 / Noemi Borrelli.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Nisaba ; 27Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781646021833
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 899.95 23
LOC classification:
  • PJ4054.U6 B67 2015
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- CATALOGUE OF PUBLISHED TEXTS -- CATALOGUE OF TEXTS ACCORDING TO DATE -- VARIATIONS IN THE MONTH NAMES -- VARIATIONS IN YEAR NAMES -- TRANSLITERATIONS -- INDICES -- TOPONYMS -- NAMES OF PROFESSIONS -- ADMINISTRATIVE TERMS
Summary: In this volume, Noemi Borrelli publishes 240 Messenger Texts from the city of Umma, texts that are currently housed in the collections of the Yale Babylonian Collection and the Harvard Semitic Museum. Earlier volumes of Nisaba published nearly 900 similar Messenger Texts that are in the collections of the British Museum.The texts published here range in date from the fifth month of Amar-Suen 3 to the twelfth month of Ibbi-Sîn. These administrative records provide data on the allotment of rations and disbursement of goods and thus form a basis for further study of the sociology and economics of Neo-Sumerian times in and around the city of Umma.
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- CATALOGUE OF PUBLISHED TEXTS -- CATALOGUE OF TEXTS ACCORDING TO DATE -- VARIATIONS IN THE MONTH NAMES -- VARIATIONS IN YEAR NAMES -- TRANSLITERATIONS -- INDICES -- TOPONYMS -- NAMES OF PROFESSIONS -- ADMINISTRATIVE TERMS

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In this volume, Noemi Borrelli publishes 240 Messenger Texts from the city of Umma, texts that are currently housed in the collections of the Yale Babylonian Collection and the Harvard Semitic Museum. Earlier volumes of Nisaba published nearly 900 similar Messenger Texts that are in the collections of the British Museum.The texts published here range in date from the fifth month of Amar-Suen 3 to the twelfth month of Ibbi-Sîn. These administrative records provide data on the allotment of rations and disbursement of goods and thus form a basis for further study of the sociology and economics of Neo-Sumerian times in and around the city of Umma.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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