Aage Westenholz

This book contains the 'Akkadian Texts' -- i.e. texts written in the Akkadian Language or script ductus -- the Enlilemaba Texts and the Onion Archive -- all three distinct archives from Nippur in Babylonia from the time of Naram-Sin and Sharkalisharri (c. 2250-2175 BC). The texts in the Akkadian archive deal with Sharkalisharri's rebuilding of Ekur, the great Temple of Enlil at Nippur. The Enlilemaba texts are the business records of a family of private citizens, and are the earliest known examples of this type of documentation from Mesopotamia. The Onion archive records the local governor's cultivation and distribution of onions, and illustrates his relations with the Imperial Sargonic government.The book is the second volume in a planned series of three tomes, OSP I-III, publishing the Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia. It contains the archaeological records of the individual texts, a list of joins and a concordance of museum numbers; copies, transliterations and translations of the texts as

Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia

Harriet P. Martin

Francesco Pomponio

Giuseppe Visicato

Hundreds of tablets and fragments were found during the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft excavations at Tell-Fara in 1902-3. These, plus other tablets from clandestine excavations, provide a valuable reference source for the administration and organisation of the city, and include sale contracts (of fields and houses), records of produce and resources, and administrative archives. The tablets are presented by means of black and white photographs along with commentary and discussion.

Aage Westenholz

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