The Babylonian correspondence of Esarhaddon, and letters to Assurbanipal and Sin-Šarru- Iškun from northern and central Babylonia

Name: The Babylonian correspondence of Esarhaddon, and letters to Assurbanipal and Sin-Šarru- Iškun from northern and central Babylonia
Author: Esarhaddon King of Assyria, Simo Parpola, Julian Reade

by Esarhaddon King of Assyria, Simo Parpola, Julian Reade

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Volume contains Kuyunjik letters that were written in the Neo-Babylonian dialect and that belong to the correspondence of Sargon II and Sennacherib with their subjects in Babylonia.

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