The Ur III Administrative Texts from Puzrish-Dagan Kept in the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Series: - Harvard Semitic Studies, Volume: 68
In The Ur III Administrative Texts from Puzrish-Dagan Kept in the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Changyu Liu offers an edition of a collection of 689 cuneiform clay tablets kept in the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE, formerly Harvard Semitic Museum), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. These administrative documents date to the Third Dynasty of Ur (Ur III, ca. 2112–2004 BCE) of Mesopotamian history and are from Puzrish-Dagan (modern Drehem in southern Iraq).
The editions of the 689 Ur III texts, arranged by their catalogue numbers, are significant for further study of how the Puzrish-Dagan organization functioned. New evidence has been gleaned and new conclusions can be drawn from texts in this book.
The Harvard Semitic Studies series publishes volumes from the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Other series offered by Brill that publish volumes from the Museum include Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant and Harvard Semitic Monographs, https://hmane.harvard.edu/publications.
The editions of the 689 Ur III texts, arranged by their catalogue numbers, are significant for further study of how the Puzrish-Dagan organization functioned. New evidence has been gleaned and new conclusions can be drawn from texts in this book.
The Harvard Semitic Studies series publishes volumes from the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Other series offered by Brill that publish volumes from the Museum include Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant and Harvard Semitic Monographs, https://hmane.harvard.edu/publications.
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Changyu Liu, Ph.D. (2015), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, is Professor of Assyriology at Zhejiang Normal University. He has published monographs and articles on Assyriology, including Organization, Administrative Practices and Written Documentation in Mesopotamia during the Ur III Period (c. 2112-2004 BC): A Case Study of Puzriš-Dagan in the Reign of Amar-Suen (Ugarit-Verlag, 2017).
1 Introduction
2 Catalogue of Texts
3 Chronological List
4 Catalogue of Seal Impressions
5 List of Texts Already Published
6 Classification of Texts According to Text Formula
7 Texts Nos. 1–689
Index of Names of Deities and Deified Kings
Index of Personal Names
Index of Geographical Names
Index of Selected Words and Phrases
All interested in the history of the Ur III dynasty and the Neo-Sumerian cuneiform documents, and anyone concerned with Sumerology, Assyriology and ancient Near Eastern studies.