Sumerian Texts from Ancient Iraq

Benjamin Studevent-Hickman has a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and worked as Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and then as Lecturer on Assyriology, at Harvard.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and Other ConventionsOne: Introduction: Provenance, Provenience, and Basic ContentTwo: Agricultural Management in the ArchiveThree: Additional Data of Note from the Archive: The Mayor and the Men of ŠimanumFour: Conclusions: Historical Context and the Question of Provenience RevisitedFive: Catalog of the TabletsSix: The Aradmu Texts in Transliteration and TranslationAppendix A: The Conservation of the Tablets Dennis and Jane Drake PiechotaAppendix B: Final Response for Freedom of Information Act Request concerning the TabletsAppendix C: A Proposal to Publish a Group of Iraqi Cuneiform Tablets under Conservation through the U.S. Department of State John Russell and Benjamin Studevent-HickmanAppendix D:  E-mail from Dr. Amira Edan, Director General of Iraqi Museums, Granting Permission to Publish the TabletsBibliography