The book consists of two parts. Part two is a catalogue of 677 seals. It consists of tables offering, in a condensed form, essential data from the text envelopes on which the seals have been impressed, and of drawings of each of them. The Babylonians considered the corpus of celestial omens, called Enuma Anu Enlil, the culmination of scholarship. A modern edition of this series of 70 tablets was initiated by Erica Reiner in cooperation with David Pingree in 1975.
Indexes list all words, names and texts.
A volume dealing with solar eclipses, by F. Rochberg-Halton, will be published in the same series by the Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, in due time. The Old Assyrian Copper Trade in Anatolia. Most of these were found in the sector occupied by an important Assyrian trade colony. This yielded new insights about the terminology used in the texts and about the role played by Assyrian trading houses and authorities, as well as by the local rulers. Extensive indexes also facilitate the use of this publication.