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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
The large number of documents of a private nature found in Assyria and Babylonia makes it a fairly easy task to find out something about the every-day life of the people of those interesting districts, not only during later times, when the kings of the “later empire” ruled, butalso daring the period of the dynasty to which Ḫammurabi (identified with Amraphel) belonged (2300 B.C. and the three succeeding centuries). As the recently published second part of Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets contains some very good inscriptions of this period, I have translated a fewwhich will probably prove to be not uninteresting for such as study the manners, customs, laws, etc., of the ancient Semites.
page 592 note 1 As the character ẖi (
) has the value of šar, there is just the possihility that ῠattu-šar may be the true reading, suggesting a comparison with the name Khita-sira of the Egyptian inscriptions.
page 595 note 1 In some texts, however, they seem to be rather too numerous for “priestesses.”
page 606 note 1 Recent Discoveries in the Realm of Assyriology, p. 32.