State Archives of Assyria Literary Texts
State Archives of Assyria Literary Texts
(SAALT) contains critical editions of literary texts based on texts from
Assurbanipals library that fall outside the State Archives of
Assyria proper and are not part of the CNA database. The discovery of this
library by Hormuzd Rassam in the middle of the nineteenth century was
the first great milepost of the infant discipline of Assyriology. Even
now, a century and a half later, it remains the single most important
group of texts discovered in Mesopotamia. Documents from the library
concern almost every aspect of ancient Mesopotamian history and culture.
Most of these texts, as distinct from the State Archives of Assyria, are
written in Babylonian and include the gems of Mesopotamian literature
and science. In selecting texts for the SAALT series, the term
literary is taken in its widest interpretation.
The production of SAALT volumes is not based
on the CNA database. Editors of texts are free to use their own transliteration
system and format. However, since the transliterations are not based on
the CNA database format, detailed glossaries and indices cannot be prepared.
With this limitation, the volumes of the SAALT series are meant to be similar
in nature to the SAA volumes, providing transliterations, translations, and
critical commentary.
Volumes Published or in Press
- SAALT 1
- Christopher Walker and Michael Dick
The Induction of the Cult Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Mesopotamian
Mis Pî Ritual (2001)
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