Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Other Conventions
One: Introduction: Provenance, Provenience, and Basic Content
Two: Agricultural Management in the Archive
Three: Additional Data of Note from the Archive: The Mayor and the Men of Šimanum
Four: Conclusions: Historical Context and the Question of Provenience Revisited
Five: Catalog of the Tablets
Six: The Aradmu Texts in Transliteration and Translation
Appendix A: The Conservation of the Tablets Dennis and Jane Drake Piechota
Appendix B: Final Response for Freedom of Information Act Request concerning the Tablets
Appendix C: A Proposal to Publish a Group of Iraqi Cuneiform Tablets under Conservation through the U.S. Department of State John Russell and Benjamin Studevent-Hickman
Appendix D:  E-mail from Dr. Amira Edan, Director General of Iraqi Museums, Granting Permission to Publish the Tablets
Bibliography

About the Author

Benjamin Studevent-Hickman has a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and worked as Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and then as Lecturer on Assyriology, at Harvard.

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