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This volume deals with a group of cuneiform tablet inscriptions, transliterated and translated, which are in the British Museum and belong to a type of literature which has hitherto been very little known.

A. Kirk Grayson presents the texts of the royal inscriptions from the earlier phase of the Neo-Assyrian period, a time in which the Assyrian kings campaigned as far as the Mediterranean and came into direct contact with biblical lands.

The inscriptions speak of the kings' building of palaces and temples in various parts of Assyria, of the gods who were invoked to bless their enterprises, of revolutions and a multitude of military conquests.

Provides commentary, bibliography, transliteration from the cuneiform, and English translation from the Sumerian or Abkadian.