Babylonian Historical-Literary Texts

Albert Kirk Grayson (Author)

9781487599249

Paperback / softback, published 15 December 1975

128 pages, figs throughout
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm, 0.19 kg

Early Assyriologists were lured to Babylonian studies by the light which cuneiform text shed on ancient history and the Bible, and for later scholars this is still the attraction. The Age of Discovery is not past, and one can still read literature that has been unseen by the eyes of man for millennia. There are myriads of tablets lying in the ancient ruins of Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, waiting for the excavator's spade; in museums there are quantities of inscriptions that have not yet been made public.