Legal and Administrative Texts from the Reign of Nabonidus

by Paul-Alain Beaulieu

Book Overview

This book makes available to scholars for the first time transcriptions of 313 clay tablets preserved in the Yale Babylonian Collection. The tablets date from the reign of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, who presided over the destiny of the Neo-Babylonian empire from 556 b.c. until its conquest by the Persians in 539 b.c. Representing a significant addition to the body of primary sources that illuminate the social and economic history of this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300057709
• ISBN13: 9780300057706
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.8" x 11.7"