Published:15/08/2010
Language:EnglishPages:138, Includes 49 tables, illustrations
BAR Number: S2135
Series: BAR International Series
Sargonic and Presargonic Texts in The World Museum Liverpool
Written by Eric L. Cripps
£29.00 – £36.00
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Description
A new study of the Old Akkadian tablets in the collection of the World Museum Liverpool (Liverpool, UK). This presentation comprises three sections. Chapter 1 recounts the modern history of the tablets. It deals with the acquisition of the tablets in the early twentieth century and surveys scholarly treatments of the texts following their first publication in the 1950s and 1960s. Chapter 2 fixes the chronological position of the texts within the context of the history of the Old Akkadian period and offers some interpretations of their historical context from the perspective of the information contained in them. The final section presents the texts themselves.
Reviews
‘One of the biggest achievements of this book is to provide the scholars with a detailed treatment of the texts, putting together data, and providing missing information when possible. In this regard, the usefulness of this work can hardly be underrated. The author put a lot of effort into making the text accessible, not only to experts in Assyriology and Sumerology, but also to scientists in other fields, such as Anthropology, Archaeology, and History…Especially useful to the non-experts of third-millennium studies is the edition format, having transliterations on the left column, and translations on the right one…Cripps provides us with a very useful, clear, and convenient reference for future studies, and scholars should thank the author for his work.’
Massimo Maiocchi, Archiv für Orientforschung, Internationale Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft vom Vorderen Orient 53, 2015
