A Mesopotamian Miscellany / / Karen Foster, Benjamin Foster.
Drawn from Akkadian and Sumerian tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection, many of them previously unpublished, this collection of readings brings to life the vibrancy of ancient Mesopotamian literature, beyond its better-known myths and epics. The book’s unique thematic structure presents a wide r...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East ;
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