Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Mesopotamian Tradition.

• Superior document: Cuneiform Monographs ; v.55
• Author: Frazer, Mary.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cuneiform Monographs
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (593 pages)

Study of royal letters of uncertain authenticity in circulation in ancient Mesopotamia ca. 700-100 BCE. Contains catalogue, text editions and a systematic assessment of their reliability as historical sources for the reigns and events they depict.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- ‎Half-Title Page -- ‎Series Title Page -- ‎Title Page -- ‎Copyright Page -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Bibliographic Abbreviations -- ‎Tables -- ‎Figures -- ‎Chapter 1. Introduction -- ‎1.1. An Exceptional Cuneiform Letter -- ‎1.2. A Larger Phenomenon -- ‎1.3. History of Research and Goals of This Study -- ‎1.3.1. History of Research -- ‎1.3.2. Goals of This Study -- ‎1.4. The Text Corpus -- ‎1.4.1. Criteria for Inclusion in the Corpus -- ‎1.4.2. Cataloguing and Subdividing the Corpus -- ‎1.5. Structure of This Study -- ‎Chapter 2. The Authenticity of Letters A4-A17 -- ‎2.1. The Significance of the Authenticity Question -- ‎2.1.1. The Authenticity of the Letters and Their Reliability as Sources for a History of Events -- ‎2.1.2. The Authenticity of the Letters and Later Communities' Engagement with the Past -- ‎2.2. Problems with the Authenticity Question -- ‎2.2.1. A General Problem -- ‎2.2.2. Corpus-Specific Problems -- ‎2.2.3. A Way Forward -- ‎2.3. Establishing Inauthenticity -- ‎2.3.1. Anachronisms -- ‎2.3.2. "Plagiarisms" -- ‎2.3.3. External Evidence -- ‎2.4. Weighing the Evidence: Subjective Assessments -- ‎2.5. Analyses of A4-A13, A15-A17, Letter-by-Letter -- ‎2.5.1. Letter A4: Very Probably Inauthentic -- ‎2.5.2. Letter A5: Case Unclear -- ‎2.5.3. Letter A6: Possibly Inauthentic -- ‎2.5.4. Letter A7: Probably Inauthentic -- ‎2.5.5. Letter A8: Probably Inauthentic -- ‎2.5.6. Letter A9: Possibly Inauthentic -- ‎2.5.7. Letter A10: Probably Inauthentic -- ‎2.5.8. Letters A11, A12, and A13: Probably Inauthentic -- ‎2.5.9. Letter A15: Case Unclear -- ‎2.5.10. Letter A16: Probably Inauthentic -- ‎2.5.11. Letter A17: Probably Inauthentic -- ‎2.6. Summary and Conclusion -- ‎Editions -- ‎A Note on the Text Editions -- ‎Category A. Letters with Identifiable Historical Settings.

‎Letter A1. Gilgamesh, "King of Ur" to an Unknown King -- ‎Letter A2. A King of the Isin i Dynasty to a King of the Babylon i Dynasty -- ‎Letter A3. Samsu-ilūna to Enlil-nādin-šumi -- ‎Letter A4. Kurigalzu to Unidentifiable Recipients -- ‎Letter A5. Unidentifiable Sender to Nazi-Maruttaš -- ‎Letter A6. Adad-šuma-uṣur to Aššur-nārārī iii and Ilī-padâ -- ‎Letter A7. A Middle Elamite King to "the Babylonians"(?) -- ‎Letter A8. "The Babylonians" (?) to a Middle Elamite King -- ‎Letter A9. A King of the Isin ii Dynasty to an Assyrian King -- ‎Letter A10. Nebuchadnezzar i to "the Babylonians" -- ‎Letter A11. The "Obedient Borsippans" to Assurbanipal -- ‎Letter A12. Assurbanipal to "the Babylonians" -- ‎Letter A13. "The Babylonians" (?) to Assurbanipal -- ‎Letter A14. Šamaš-šuma-ukīn to Assurbanipal -- ‎Letter A15. A Late Assyrian King (Assurbanipal?) to Šadûnu -- ‎Letter A16. Sîn-šarra-iškun to Nabopolassar, "His Lord" -- ‎Letter A17. Nabopolassar to Sîn-šarra-iškun -- ‎Category B. Letters with Uncertain Historical Settings -- ‎Letter B1. An Officer to a (Kassite?) King of Babylon -- ‎Letter B2. A (Middle?) Assyrian King to a (Middle?) Babylonian King -- ‎Letter B3. Extracts from One or More Letters, including One from a Group to a Superior -- ‎Letter B4. Extracts from Letters with Different Correspondents, including One between Kings -- ‎Letter B5. Extracts from One or More Letters from a Foreign King(?) to the Babylonians(?) -- ‎Letter B6. A Travelling Official to His Superior -- ‎Letter B7. Extracts from One or More Letters including One from a Group to a Superior -- ‎Letter B8. A Subordinate to a Provincial Governor (and a King?) -- ‎Letter B9. Letter about Cultic Matters -- ‎Category C. Possible Letters -- ‎Text C1. A Fugitive from the Land of Edamaraṣ -- ‎Text C2. "Strengthen the Battle Equipment!".

‎Text C3. "I Will Drag the Loot of the Assyrians to the Steppe!" -- ‎Text C4. Nazi-Maruttaš and Šubši-mešrê-Šakkan -- ‎Text C5. "Let them Give One Chariot Fighter" -- ‎Text C6. One King Addresses Another about Tribute from the West -- ‎Text C7. The Assyro-Babylonian Border Dispute in the Eighth Century -- ‎Text C8. Mukīn-zēri, a King of Elam, and Inconsistent Behaviour -- ‎Text C9. An Official to a King of the Land of Akkad (?) -- ‎Text C10. Assurbanipal to "the Babylonians" (?) -- ‎Text C11. The Cuneiform Elite 1 -- ‎Text C12. The Cuneiform Elite 2 -- ‎Text C13. "I Shall Listen to You" -- ‎Text C14. A Successful Military Campaign -- ‎Appendix 1. A5-A17 as Potential Sources for Political History -- ‎Appendix 2. The Hypothetical Transmissions of Letters A5-A17 -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Concordance of Cuneiform Sources Edited in CUMO 55 -- ‎Index of Names -- ‎Index of Titles and Epithets -- ‎Index of Subjects -- Back Cover.