Description
Each tablet was once written in the Akkadian language the usage of the cuneiform script invented in Mesopotamia at the end of the fourth millennium b.c. Paul-Alain Beaulieu’s transcriptions of the tablets are presented in autographed facsimile copies. The creator also provides an introduction to the volume, a register and descriptive catalogue of the texts, and indexes of personal names, geographical names, and names of gods and temples appearing in the texts. This outstanding collection affords important new get entry to to the history of Mesopotamian civilization throughout its last phase as an independent political and cultural entity.