Buch, Deutsch, Band Volume 86, 297 Seiten
Reihe: PIHANS
Buch, Deutsch, Band Volume 86, 297 Seiten
Reihe: PIHANS
ISBN: 978-90-6258-087-3
Verlag: Peeters Publishers
originating from Neo-Babylonian Sippar complete with editions and
handcopies of the texts. Among the subjects treated in the commentary
are the prebendary system of the Ebabbar temple, various dues and taxes,
and agriculture.
The archive is shown to exhibit strong
traces of the activity of apprentice scribes; it can in fact be
considered to be a 'school archive,' the setting of the 'school' being
the archive owner's family. It is only part of a larger group, the other
part of which is an archive of medical texts (also consisting mostly of
school tablets) studied by Irving Finkel.