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Another of my Tools

A few weeks ago I showed what a bare-bones publication of a cuneiform text looks like. A much newer book is a good example of a lavish edition.

The blue hardcover of a book — John MacGinnis and Cornelia Wunsch, *Arrows of the Sun: Armed Forces in Sippar in the First Millenium BC.* Babylonische Archive Band 4. ISLET-Verlag: Dresden, 2012.

Only a fraction of the tablets from the Achaemenid period which have been excavated have been published, and many of the published ones look like this: A typical entry in Strassmaier’s “Inschriften von Darius, König von Babylon” (Liepzig, 1892): “1 1/2 mina 2 1/2 shekels silver …” One Johann N. Strassmaier... Continue reading: One of My Tools