The Nesbit Tablets

David I. Owen (Bernard and Jane Schapiro Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Jadaic Studies, Emeritus, Cornell, emeritus faculty)

The Nesbit Tablets
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Eisenbrauns
Country
United States
Published
18 May 2016
Pages
196
ISBN
9781575062945

The Nesbit Tablets

David I. Owen (Bernard and Jane Schapiro Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Jadaic Studies, Emeritus, Cornell, emeritus faculty)

In 1914, William M. Nesbit published his dissertation at Columbia University on 30 archival texts from the Third Dynasty of Ur. Now, more than a century later, the remaining tablets in his collection have been recovered and, thanks to the generosity of the Nesbit family, were made available for publication by David I. Owen. The majority of texts published here is from Puzris-Dagan (Drehem) with some from Nippur and Umma. They originate from the earliest clandestine finds at those sites. The 98 texts, including a re-edition of the previously published tablets, are provided with a catalogue, hand-copies, selected photographs, along with transliterations, translations and comments, thus providing an important addition to the extensive corpus of Ur III texts from this important period in Mesopotamian history.

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