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Cuneiform texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Ira Spar

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Volume One: 120 ancient Mesopotamian texts from the Metropolitan Museum's extensive collection of cuneiform tablets are published here in a projected multi-volume edition. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.Volume Two: This important scholarly work documents 106 religious, scientific, scholastic, and literary texts, written in Sumerian and Akkadian from cuneiform tablets in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is the second in a series of four volumes that will publish all of the Museum's more than six hundred cuneiform tablets and fragments. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.… (more)
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To the memory of Vaughn Emerson Crawford, scholar, humanitarian, dear friend
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, its galleries not yet opened to the public, was still in its formative stages in the spring of 1879, when General Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the Museum's first professional director, decided to establish a collection of ancient Near Eastern cuneiform tablets.
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Volume One: 120 ancient Mesopotamian texts from the Metropolitan Museum's extensive collection of cuneiform tablets are published here in a projected multi-volume edition. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.Volume Two: This important scholarly work documents 106 religious, scientific, scholastic, and literary texts, written in Sumerian and Akkadian from cuneiform tablets in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is the second in a series of four volumes that will publish all of the Museum's more than six hundred cuneiform tablets and fragments. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

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