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Description of  Tablets from the Iri-sa rig Archive (CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology)

While each of the previously known archives from the Third Dynasty of Ur has provided distinct views of Sumerian society, those from Iri-Sarig present an extraordinary range of new sources, depicting a cosmopolitan Sumerian/Akkadian city unlike any other from this period. In this publication, Marcel Sigrist and Tohru Ozaki present more than two thousand newly identified tablets, mostly from Iri-Sarig. This unique and extensive corpus elucidates the importance that Iri-Sarig represented politically, militarily, and culturally in Sumer. Read more