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Buccellati  \nSchool of Theology at Claremont  \n10011383123  \nPJ  \n4054  \nN5  \nB8  \n# The Library\n\nSCHOOL OF THEOLOGYAT CLAREMONT  \nWEST FOOTHILL AT COLLEGE AVENUECLAREMONT,CALIFORNIA  \n# CUNEIFORM TEXTS FROM NIPPUR\n\nTHE EIGHTH AND NINTH SEASONS  \nBy  \nGIORGIO BUCCELLATIandROBERT D.BIGGS  \nHE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOASSYRIOLOGICAL STUDIES ·NO.17  \nHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS·CHICAGO·ILLINOIS  \nTHE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOASSYRIOLOGICAL STUDIES·NO.17  \nPJ CUNEIFORM TEXTS FROM NIPPUR4054NSB8THE EIGHTH AND NINTH SEASONS  \nBy  \nGIORGIO BUCCELLATIandROBERT D.BIGGS  \nTHE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO  \nASSYRIOLOGICAL STUDIES ·NO.17  \nTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS·CHICAGO·ILLINOIS  \n# Theology LibrarySCHOOLOF THEOLOGYAT CLAREMONTCalifornia\n\nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number:68-58167  \nTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGo PRESs,CHICAGo 60637The University of Chicago Press,Ltd.,London,W.C.1  \n1969 by The University of Chicago.All rights reservedPublished 1969.Printed in the United States of America  \nFOREWORD  \nAn extraordinary wealth of cuneiform documents has come to light in ten sea-sons of excavations at Nippur since World War II.The seasonal increments arenecessarily irregular and somewhat accidental;at times the expedition's epigra-pher is almost submerged in the brute tasks of baking,cleaning,restoring,andcataloguing,while at other times the gleanings have been relatively slight.Finalpublication and discussion of these texts naturally will take place for the most partwithin limited temporal or analytic categories,but a more immediate task is tocommunicate the range and essential character of the material to other scholarseven while further studies proceed.This is what the present volume is intended to do.  \nAlthough covering findings of only the eighth and ninth seasons of excavations(in 1962/63 and 1964/65),this volume represents the first publication under theauspices of the Oriental Institute of tablets found at Nippur in excavations whichthe Institute has sponsored alone or jointly with other institutions.It comprises amiscellaneous group of texts extending from Early Dynastic into Neo-Babyloniantimes,and includes administrative documents,royal inscriptions,votive inscrip-tions,and examples of the traditional scribal repertory,such as lexical lists andastrological and medical texts.We are extremely grateful to Drs.Robert D.Biggsand Giorgio Buccellati not only for having taken the responsibilities of the epigra-pher in the field during their respective seasons but also for having assumed theinitiative in completing a catalogue of their findings with a welcome minimum ofdelay.  \nDr.Biggs is currently preparing a second catalogue covering more than twothousand texts found during the first three seasons of post-war excavations.Inlarge part,of course,the inverted order of publication of the texts from these sea-sons is a reflection of the amount and complexity of the material that is included.The cumulative task of making the constantly increasing collection of new Nippurtexts fully and systematically available to scholars has become an awesome one.The present volume also is to be understood as the expression of a serious commit-ment to this task on the part of the Oriental Institute.  \nRoBERT McC.ADAMSDirector  \nCHICAGO  \nJune 1968  \nhttps://archive.org/details/cuneiformtextsfro000unse","cbCaiq0ZIxdsiRER","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq0ZIxdsiRER","pdf",3446108,"English","# Foreword\n## Excavation background and publication purpose\n## Scope of the published tablets\n## Acknowledgments and ongoing catalog work","[{\"question\":\"Which excavation seasons are covered in this volume?\",\"answer\":\"It covers findings from the eighth and ninth seasons, conducted in 1962/63 and 1964/65.\"},{\"question\":\"What types of cuneiform texts are included?\",\"answer\":\"The volume includes a miscellaneous group of tablets: administrative documents, royal inscriptions, votive inscriptions, lexical lists, and examples of astrological and medical texts.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the foreword discuss the difficulty of publishing seasonal findings?\",\"answer\":\"Seasonal increments are described as irregular and the work of epigraphers can be submerged in tasks such as baking, cleaning, restoring, and cataloguing, so publication naturally proceeds within limited temporal or analytic categories.\"}]","CUNEIFORM TEXTS FROM NIPPUR - Eighth and Ninth Seasons - Foreword | PDF",1791867236,151]