The ancient Near East
Subtitle: historical sources in translation
By: edited by Mark W. Chavalas.
Contributors: Chavalas, Mark W. 1954-
Series: Blackwell sourcebooks in ancient history
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780631235804; 9780631235811
Subjects: Middle East -- History -- To 622 -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sumerian early dynastic royal inscriptions; title: Old Akkadian period texts; title: Late third millenium Sumerian texts; title: Old Babylonian period inscriptions (van Koppen); title: Miscellaneous old Babylonian period documents; title: Late Bronze Age inscriptions from Babylon, Assyria, and Syro-Palestine; title: Correspondance from El-Amarna in Egypt; title: Hittite historical texts I; title: Hittite historical texts II; title: Neo-Assyrian and Syro-Palestinian texts (I); title: Neo-Assyrian and Syro-Palestinian texts (II); title: Neo-Babylonian period texts from Babylonia and Syro-Palestine; title: Achaemenid period historical texts concerning Mesopotamia.