The Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, about B.C. 2200, to which are added a Series of Letters of other Kings of the First Dynasty of Babylon
Leonard William King
Hammurabi King of Babylonia
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Assyro-Babylonian Letters Cuneiform Inscriptions Epigraphy
The three-volume work is subtitled “The original Babylonian Texts, edited from Tablets in the British Museum, with English Translations, Summaries of Contents, etc.” It was published in Luzac's Semitic Text and Translation Series, Vol. II, III, and VIII.
- Volume I.: Introduction and the Babylonian texts. London : Luzac and Co., 1898.
- Volume II.: Babylonian texts, continued. London : Luzac and Co., 1900.
- Volume III.: English translations, etc. London : Luzac and Co., 1900.
See also: “Review of The Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi” / by G. S. Goodspeed, in: The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, April, 1901, vol. 17, no. 3, p. 174–177 [in English].
Reprints are [s.l., s.n.], 1965 (private offset ed.); New York, AMS Press, 1976 (Hardcover); Whitefish, Kessinger Publ. Co., 2006 (Paperback); ibid., 2007 (Hardcover); [s.l.], Lightning Source Inc., 2009; Whitefish, Kessinger Publ. Co., 2010; etc.