Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two : : School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts / / A. R. George, Gabriella Spada.
In ancient Mesopotamia, men training to be scribes copied model letters in order to practice writing and familiarize themselves with epistolary forms and expressions. Similarly, model contracts were used to teach them how to draw up agreements for the transactions typical of everyday economic life....
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Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 64 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Statement of Provenance
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Catalog of Tablets
- Concordances
- 1. Old Babylonian School Letters
- 2. Old Babylonian Model Contracts and Related Texts
- 3. Other Old Babylonian Legal Academic Texts
- References
- Cuneiform Texts
- Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology