What is it about?
An explanation of the peculiarities of the Babylonian cuneiform script in the volume R.J. van der Spek, Irving L. Finkel, Reinhard Pirngruber, and Kathryn Stevens, Babylonian Chronographic Texts from the Hellenistic Period, Atlanta: SBL Press, 2025, a book of 1074 pages containing editions with transcription, translation and commentary of all Babylonian Chronicles, historical sections of the Astronomical Diaries, two king lists and the Antiochus Cylinder, all dating to the Late Achaemenid, Hellenistic and Parthian period up to 22 BCE.
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Why is it important?
It helps to understand choices made in the interpretation of cuneiform texts - and the difficulties.
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This page is a summary of: Reading Akkadian:, May 2025, JSTOR,
DOI: 10.2307/jj.31106783.8.
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