Babylonian Legal and Business Documents from the Time of the First Dynasty of Babylon, Chiefly from Nippur (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Babylonian Legal and Business Documents From the Time of the First Dynasty of Babylon, Chiefly From Nippur University of Pennsylvania, Who undertook to revise the English portions of my manuscript, and to the Editor, Prof. H. V. Hilpreeht, Who by his advice and kind assistance greatly facilitated my stay in Philadelphia as well as in Constantinople. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.