Letters to Cassite Kings from the Temple Archives of Nippur [The Babylonian Expedition of The University of Pennsylvania – Series A: Cuneiform Texts. Volume XVII, Part 1]

Radau, Hugo (Text by); H. V. Hilprecht (Edited by). Letters to Cassite Kings from the Temple Archives of Nippur [The Babylonian Expedition of The University of Pennsylvania – Series A: Cuneiform Texts. Volume XVII, Part 1]. Philadelphia: Department of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1908. First edition.

Folio (12 1/2 x 9″). xv, [1], 174, [2]pp (Text), 68, xii leaves (Plates). Modern olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine.

All the tablets here published were excavated in Nippur during the second to fourth expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania (1889-1900), and form part of the so-called Temple Archives of Nippur partly published by Clay.

The letters may be conveniently subdivided into three classes:

(a) Letters of diverse writers addressed a-na be-li-ia, “TO MY LORD,” i.e., letters written by various royal and Temple officials and addressed TO THE KING, Nos. 1-74.

(b) One letter from a king (LUGAL) to Amel-Marduk, or, more specifically, a letter of King Shagarakti-Shuriash to his sheriff-in-chief and attorney of state (GÜ. EN. NA), No. 75, see pp. 132ff.

(c) Letters of several writers to certain persons named in the address; in other words, letters constituting an official correspondence between officers of the Temple and the State, Nos. 76ff

This volume is illustrated with 68 plates of autograph texts, and 12 plates of halftone reproductions.

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. (45846) $95