Assyrian and Babylonian contracts, with Aramaic reference notes

Stevenson James Henry Assyriologist 1860-

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• Akkadian language
• Text
• Assyria
• Commerce
• Epigraphy
• Babylonia

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ASSYRIAN
AND BABYLONIAN CONTRACTS
WITH
ARAMAIC REFERENCE NOTES
By JAMES HENRY STEVENSON, Pii.D.
Professor in Vanderbilt University.
NEW YORK : CINCINNATI : CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANYCopyright, 1902
BY
James Henky Stevenson
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PREFACE,
In the present volume all the cuneiform tablets
in the British Museum having Aramaic inscriptions,
time, and arrangedare brought together for the first
for purposes of comparative study.
The cuneiform texts with their Aramaic readings,
as they appear on the tablet, are reproduced with as
individualmuch fidelity as possible; and the Ara-
maic texts appear separately in a body of notes,
where each is discussed. The reader is requested to
compare the legends in both places, as it may some-
times happen in the process of etching, that the orig-
inal is more faithfully produced in one place than in
the other. The entire corpus of Aramaic inscrip-
tions will be found grouped together at the close of
the cuneiform texts, where readings may be com-
pared, the development of the alphabet traced, and
the individual peculiarities of the scribes noted.
In the transliteration and translation the cuneiform
order is followed, so that the line for line of the As-
preserved. This has obvious disad-syrian may be
advantages outweigh them.vantages, but I think the
it necessary to mark all accent-I have not thought
I usually indicateded letters, as i^, S(i, etc., nor have
indicated by thelong vowels when they were not
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scribe. In the translation I have generally shown
the constituent elements of proper names where
these were certain.
I desire to acknowledge the uniform whichcourtesy
I received while copying these tablets in the British
Museum, from Dr. E. A. Wallace Budge, keeper of
Assyrian and Egyptian antiquities, as well as from
his assistants. Every facility and encouragement
was given me toward making the collectiom com-
plete.
1 am indebted to my instructor. Prof. Robert
Francis Harper, for valuable suggestions and help
while studying these texts. Rev. H. W. Johns,C.
lecturer in Assyriology in Queen's College,M.A.,
has also laid me under obligation byCambridge,
the greater part of this book in the proofreading
kindness the of Dr. Har-sheets. While this on part
per and Mr. Johns is highly appreciated, yet neither
of them is to be held responsible for opinions ex-
pressed here.
Parts I., n., and IV. of this book were originally
presented to the University of Chicago for the de-
gree of doctor of philosophy.
Vanderbilt University,
Tenn,, March 28, 1902.Nashville,