Cuneiform Texts in the Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Volume 1, Administrative Texts from Tello from the Ur III Period

Description

With this volume we begin publication of the cuneiform collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Despite the relatively small size of the collection (about 1760 tablets), it is a comprehensive representation of the various chronological periods of the ancient Near East, from the pre-Sargonic (the middle of the third mil­lennium B.C.E.) to and including the Neo-Babylonian and Persian (the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E.). The collection is also diverse in content, featuring administrative and economic documents, legal and literary texts, and letters.