{"product_id":"letters-from-old-babylonian-kish-j-nicholas-reid-9780198817581","title":"Letters from Old Babylonian Kish","description":"\u003cem\u003eLetters from Old Babylonian Kish\u003c\/em\u003e presents the primary publication of previously unstudied letters from the Old Babylonian Period. Drawing on internal and external evidence, the volume illuminates connections between these letters and other tablets housed in collections in Europe and the USA. The result is the reconstruction of a virtual archive of more than 200 letters from Old Babylonian Kish. Until at least 1600 BC, the compiled archive represents the largest group of related letters from southern Mesopotamia. Although these letters moved into various museums through the antiquities market in the early 1900s, many remained unstudied and unpublished, despite providing many pristine examples of personal and professional correspondence. The study of scribal hands and habits has been aided by the gathering of so many related letters, allowing the identification of four distinct scribal hands. The volume includes an extensive introduction, treating Old Babylonian epistolography and scribal hands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Nicholas Reid, Klaus Wagensonner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198817584\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198817581\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.80h x 8.51w x 1.24d","brand":"J. Nicholas Reid","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46767326757119,"sku":"9780198817581","price":230.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_75180e44-7ceb-4efd-a9d2-80f70654469a.jpg?v=1744169493","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/letters-from-old-babylonian-kish-j-nicholas-reid-9780198817581","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}