Neo-Sumerian Archival Texts Primarily from Nippur in the University Museum, the Oriental Institute and the Iraq Museum

by David I. Owen

NATN contains copies of 988 tablets and seal inscriptions from the Third Dynasty of Ur, mostly from private archives. Loans, contracts, sales, court documents, letter-orders, agricultural texts, name lists, incantations, and other genres are represented in the collection. In addition, there is a comprehensive catalogue of the entire Ur III holdings of the Babylonian Section of the University Museum in Philadelphia.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982