Texts mainly from the Ur III and Early Old Babylonian Periods in Some Private Collections at Jerusalem

Marcel Sigrist* and Tohru Ozaki**

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* – Independent researcher. Email: marcel.sigrist@gmail.com
** – Independent researcher. Email: tohru.ozaki3@gmail.com

Cite as Sigrist, M., Ozaki, T. 2022: Texts mainly from the Ur III and Early Old Babylonian Periods in Some Private Collections at Jerusalem. Hungarian Assyriological Review 3: 105–202.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52093/hara-202202-00030-000

Abstract

This communication contains preliminary transliterations of 143, mostly Ur III and Old Babylonian documents from the antiquities market.

Keywords: archival documents, Ur III period, Old Babylonian period, antiquities market, Irisaĝrig, Ĝaršana, Umma

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