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Article: The Correspondence of Sargon II: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces, part III.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- April 1, 2004
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The Correspondence of Sargon II, part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. By ANDREAS FUCHS and SIMO PARPOLA. State Archives of Assyria, vol. 15. Helsinki: HELSINKI UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. lviii + 280, illus. (paper).
The appearance of this volume is a milestone for Assyrian studies. It is an edition of all the Assyrian-dialect letters found at Nineveh written to King Sargon II from Babylonia or from the provinces east of Babylonia. Two volumes of Sargon's correspondence have already been published by the State Archives of Assyria series (Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, part I: Letters from Assyria and the West, 1987; and ...