Overview

The 145 tablets presented in this volume are among a larger group of 302 tablets confiscated by U.S. customs, and which were being stored in a World Trade Center building when it was destroyed on 9/11. The 145 tablets, which come from an unknown site near Nippur in Southern Iraq, are the documents of a high official named Aradmu that detail routine agricultural operations, including receipts and grain loans. The group was repatriated to Iraq in late 2010, after the tablets were conserved and the author had completed his study. The editions offered in this volume complete an incredible journey for the tablets and the stories they hold.

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Author:   Benjamin Studevent-Hickman
Publisher:   Lockwood Press
Imprint:   Lockwood Press
Volume:   5
Weight:   1.070kg
ISBN:  

9781937040857

ISBN 10:   1937040852
Pages:   500
Publication Date:   01 July 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Other Conventions One: Introduction: Provenance, Provenience, and Basic Content Two: Agricultural Management in the Archive Three: Additional Data of Note from the Archive: The Mayor and the Men of Šimanum Four: Conclusions: Historical Context and the Question of Provenience Revisited Five: Catalog of the Tablets Six: The Aradmu Texts in Transliteration and Translation Appendix A: The Conservation of the Tablets Dennis and Jane Drake Piechota Appendix B: Final Response for Freedom of Information Act Request concerning the Tablets Appendix C: A Proposal to Publish a Group of Iraqi Cuneiform Tablets under Conservation through the U.S. Department of State John Russell and Benjamin Studevent-Hickman Appendix D:  E-mail from Dr. Amira Edan, Director General of Iraqi Museums, Granting Permission to Publish the Tablets Bibliography

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Benjamin Studevent-Hickman has a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and worked as Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and then as Lecturer on Assyriology, at Harvard.

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