Mesopotamian Civilizations: An Epistolary History of an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom

by Piotr Michalowski

The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur is a collection of literary letters between the Ur III monarchs and their high officials at the end of the third millennium B.C. The letters cover topics of royal authority and proper governance, defense of frontier regions, and the ultimate disintegration of the empire and represent the largest corpus of Sumerian prose literature we possess. This long-awaited edition, based on extensive collation of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575061945
• ISBN13: 9781575061948
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.2" x 10.2"