Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud 4
Literary Texts from the Temple of Nabu
Published on 31. December 1996
Book
Hardback
72 pages
978-0-903472-15-9 (ISBN)
Description
The library of Nimrud, probably established in 798 BC, was a prestigious royal foundation whose scribes had contacts all over the East, particularly with Nineveh. The 259 cuneiform tablets and fragments which constituted the library mainly described magical and medical rituals, prayers and instructions for training scribes. All the epigraphic finds from Sir Max Mallowan's excavations of 1955-7 are described in this volume, with additional material from the Iraq Archaeological Service's excavations of 1985.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
with 144 pls of Cuneiform Copies and 13 pls b/w photos
ISBN-13
978-0-903472-15-9 (9780903472159)
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Jeremy Black has recently retired as Professor of History at the University of Exeter. Graduating from Cambridge with a starred first, he did postgraduate work at Oxford and then taught at Durham, eventually as professor, before moving to Exeter in 1996. He has lectured extensively in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and the United States, where he has held visiting chairs at West Point, Texas Christian University, and Stillman College. He was appointed to the Order of Membership of the British Empire for services to stamp design. His books include The British Seaborne Empire, Contesting History and Rethinking World War Two.