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The 173 texts contained in this volume were acquired by the Oriental Institute Tablet Collection over a long period of years from various sources. The texts are dated from 699 to 423 B.C. during the Neo-Babylonian period. The more noteworthy subject matter of the texts includes an adoption document, sale of houses and a field (from the Nur-Sin archive), a "datio in solutum," a court protocol concerning a loan of silver with interest specified, proceedings in the assembly concerning personal status, a Mar Banutu text from the town of Hubat, a court record concerning the status of a freed person, a contract with fowlers to supply birds to Eanna, an inventory of the finery of the Lady-of-Uruk for craftsmen, a four-column list of precious objects, a two-column list of words, a tablet whose obverse records part of a contract and whose reverse is from Sb B, a fragment of an Akkadian religious text or medical or astrological commentary, and a fragment of a literary text.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Archaeology Archaeology by period / region

• Full title: Neo-Babylonian Texts in the Oriental Institute Collection
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 282
• EAN: 9781885923288
• ISBN: 1885923287
• ID: 05013390
• Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
• Weight: 1796 g
• Dimensions: 316 × 240 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. December 2003

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