Title: Early dynastic and early Sargonic tablets from Adab in the Cornell University collections /
Authors: Visicato, Giuseppe.; Westenholz, Aage
Publisher: CDL Press
Year: 2010
Subjects: Cuneiform tablets Iraq Adab (Extinct city); Akkadian language Texts; Sumerian language Texts.; Adab (Extinct city) Antiquities.; Babylonia Antiquities.; Adab (Extinct city) History Sources.; Babylonia History Sources.
Abstract: A total of 369 cuneiform texts are published with full translations in this volume, the majority (342) from Adab, nodern tell Bismaya with the remaining 27 texts from other sites. The tablets span the period from EDIIIa through the early Sargonic period, roughly 2600 to 2300 B.C.E. The archive of 180 texts from the reign of Meskigalla is the richest and most important corpus, with documents written over a very short period, between Sargon's war against Lugalzagesi and his subsequent campaigns against Mari, Ebla, and Yarmuti.
Contents: Adab calendar -- Early dynastic IIIa texts -- Early dynastic IIIa to IIIb texts -- Early dynastic IIIb texts from Adab -- Early dynastic IIIb to early Sargonic texts -- Texts from the time of Meskigalla -- Early Sargonic texts after Meskigalla -- Texts from Adab from the early Sargonic period -- Texts from other sites -- Appendix -- Indexes. Personal names -- Professions -- Deities -- Temples and sanctuaries -- Toponyms -- Institutions -- Fields and canals -- List of words discussed -- New signs -- Photographs of selected texts.