{"product_id":"neo-babylonian-texts-in-the-oriental-institute-collection-9781885923288","title":"Neo-Babylonian Texts in the Oriental Institute Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David B. Weisberg\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 173 texts contained in this volume were acquired by the Oriental Institute Tablet Collection over a long period of years from various sources. The texts are dated from 699 to 423 BC, during the Neo-Babylonian period. The more noteworthy subject matter of the texts includes an adoption document, sale of houses and a field (from the Nur-Sin archive), a \"datio in solutum,\" a court protocol concerning a loan of silver with interest specified, a loan of silver with interest specified, proceedings in the assembly concerning personal status, a Mar Banutu text from the town of Hubat, a court record concerning the status of a freed person, a contract with fowlers to supply birds to Eanna, an inventory of the finery of the Lady-of-Uruk for craftsmen, a four-column list of precious objects, a two-column list of words, a tablet whose obverse records part of a contract and whose reverse is from Sb B, a fragment of an Akkadian religious text or medical or astrological commentary, and a fragment of a literary text. The book contains transliterations, translations, text notes, commentary, indices, and a mixture of hand-drawn copies and photographs of the tablets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47892206452887,"sku":"9781885923288","price":12350.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781885923288.webp?v=1781186075","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/neo-babylonian-texts-in-the-oriental-institute-collection-9781885923288","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}