Selected Business Documents of the Neo-babylonian Period:

INTRODUCTION The neo-babylonian Business Documents or so-called contract-literature extends over a period from the time of Sennacherib down to the latest period of cuneiform-writing*). The great political revolutions of that whole epoch, especially the termination of Assyrian rule over Babylon *) and the capture of that city by Cyrus (539 B. C.) did not exert any noteworthy influence upon this kind of Babylonian literature. I have restricted myself in the present volume to business documents written before the Persian domination3), since the editors of the Study Series have reserved a separate volume for documents of the Persian period. Jules Oppbrt 4) was the first Assyriologist to devote himself to the study of neo-babylonian business docu- 1) The earliest text belonging to this class, published in VS («= Vorderasxaiische Schriftdenkmuler; cf. p. X note 4) V, I is written in the year 681 B. C, the latest, published by Strassmaiir in Zeit-tchri/l fiir Astyrioloffie III, p. 147 is w

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