Cuneiform texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Title:

Author:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

ISBN:

9780870994951

9782503517407

9782503509273

Corporate Author:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Physical Description:

3 volume : illustrations, plates ; 29 cm.

Contents:

Tablets, cones, and bricks of the third and second millennia, B.C. / Literary and scholastic texts of the first millennium B.C. / Private archive texts from the first millennium B.C.

Abstract:

Volume One: 120 ancient Mesopotamian texts from the Metropolitan Museum's extensive collection of cuneiform tablets are published here in a projected multi-volume edition. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Volume Two: This important scholarly work documents 106 religious, scientific, scholastic, and literary texts, written in Sumerian and Akkadian from cuneiform tablets in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is the second in a series of four volumes that will publish all of the Museum's more than six hundred cuneiform tablets and fragments. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Corporate Subject:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Catalogs.

Subject Term:

Akkadian language -- Texts -- Catalogs.

Sumerian language -- Texts -- Catalogs.

Cuneiform tablets -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs.

Added Author:

Spar, Ira,

Lambert, W. G. (Wilfred G.),

Von Dassow, Eva,

Postgate, J. N.,

Bregstein, Linda B. (Linda Beth),