Content area
Full Text
Altbabylonische Rechts- und Verwaltungsurkunden aus dem Musee du Louvre. By DANIEL ARNAUD. Berliner Beitrage zum Vorderen Orient, Texte, Vol. 1. Berlin: DIETRICH REIMER VERLAG, 1989. Pp. 18, 63 plates, 1 loose errata sheet. DM 48 (paper).
In the first volume of the BBVO series, the author--known mainly for his copious publications and studies of Emar texts-offers 176 copies of Old Babylonian texts located at the Louvre. Many of the texts are fragmentary or written in a very cursive ductus, facts which explain the occasional difficulties in reading some of the autographs. The author surely merits the reader's thanks for struggling with such a variety of genres and periods: administrative, economic, and legal texts, as well as letters from early to late Old Babylonian periods. It is...