Selected Temple Documents of the Ur Dynasty [Yale Oriental Series – Babylonian Texts, Vol. IV]

Keiser, Clarence Elwood. Selected Temple Documents of the Ur Dynasty [Yale Oriental Series – Babylonian Texts, Vol. IV]. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919. First edition.

Large quarto (11 1/2 x 8 3/4″). 54, [2]pp (Text), xc leaves (Plates). Modern olive cloth with gold lettering to spine.

The texts here presented belong to the large collection acquired by Yale University through the efforts of Professor Clay. They have been selected because generally they offer material and data of value for the reconstruction of the political and civil history of the people who lived in southern Babylonia in the third millennium BC.

This volume is illustrated with 90 plates of autograph texts.

Ex-library bookplate on inside of front cover, and pocket on inside of back cover. Ex-library stamp to top and bottom edges. Binding and interior in very good condition. vg. Hardcover. (45849) $95