Description: This volume publishes hand copies of 292 cuneiform texts in the Yale Babylonian Collection dating to the Sargonic and Pre-Sargonic periods. It continues publication of the Pre-Ur III texts begun by George Hackman and Ferris Stephens in the series Babylonian lnscriptions in the Collection of J. B. Nies, volume 8.
Brief description: Benjamin R. Foster is Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale University. He is author of Before the Muses (CDL, 1993), The Epic of Gilgamesh (W.W. Norton, 2019), Akkadian Literature of the Late Period (Ugarit-Verlag, 2007), among many others.