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Article: The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib.(Book review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- April 1, 2005
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The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib. By MANFRIED DIETRICH. Translated by Inka Parpola and Ronald Mayer-Opificius. State Archives of Assyria, vol. 17. Helsinki: HELSINKI UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2003. Pp. xlv + 214, illus. (paper).
The present volume contains 207 letters from the Kuyunjik collection of Neo-Babylonian letters that the author has assigned to the reigns of Sargon II and Sennacherib. Originally compiled in the 1960s, the work includes ninety-one texts from the edition of Robert Harper (Assyrian and Babylonian Letters [Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1892-1914]) and 114 from the author's own Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, Part ...
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