Tablets from the Iri-Sagrig Archive (CUSAS): 40 (CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology) - Hardcover

Sigrist, Marcel; Ozaki, Tohru

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1575067269 ISBN 13: 9781575067261

Publisher: Eisenbrauns, 2019

Synopsis

While each of the previously known archives from the Third Dynasty of Ur has provided distinct views of Sumerian society, those from Iri-Saĝrig present an extraordinary range of new sources, depicting a cosmopolitan Sumerian/Akkadian city unlike any other from this period. In this publication, Marcel Sigrist and Tohru Ozaki present more than two thousand newly identified tablets, mostly from Iri-Saĝrig. This unique and extensive corpus elucidates the importance that Iri-Saĝrig represented politically, militarily, and culturally in Sumer.

Although these tablets were not able to be cleaned, baked, or photographed, the authors’ transliterations are based on the original tablets, often after repeated collations. Moreover, access to so many well-preserved tablets made it possible to improve upon the readings and interpretations offered in previous publications. Volume 1 contains a catalog and classification of the texts by provenance, a list of month names and year formulas, another of inscriptions, a chronological listing of the texts, and extensive indexes of personal names, deities, toponyms, and selected words and phrases. Volume 2 presents the texts in transliteration with substantial commentary.

This two-volume publication preserves and makes available to the scholarly community a significant segment of Iraq’s cultural legacy that otherwise might have been ignored or even lost. It will augment and enhance our understanding of the unique civilization of Mesopotamia in the late third millennium BCE.

About this title

About the Authors

Marcel Sigrist is Professor Emeritus of the École Biblique et Archéologique in Jerusalem.

Tohru Ozaki is a leading Japanese Sumerologist and Assyriologist, retired from the University of Shizuoka.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575067269
• ISBN 13: 9781575067261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 744