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Excerpt from Business Documents of Murashû Sons of Nippur Dated in the Reign of Artaxerxes I. (464-424 B. C.)
It has been calculated that the cuneiform texts selected for publication in Series A of The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, edited by me, will require from twelve to fifteen volumes. This number may be increased, if the impor tance Of the new material to be Obtained through our continued excavations in Nippur should require it. The first and second parts of Vol. I have been in the hands Of Assyriologists for some time; Part 3 will be issued in the near future. Vols. II, III, VI, X, XI are in the course Of preparation.
The neo-babylonian texts published in the following seventy-two plates form Vol. IX. They belong to the general class Of the so-called contract tablets. All of them being taken from the archives Of a certain family well known as a ?ourishing business firm during the second half Of the fifth century b.c., they possess a unique value, which is augmented by the fact that they constitute the first large collection of cuneiform documents dated in the reign Of Artaxerxes I. Vol. X will bring a further selection of representative texts from the same archives, dated in the reign Of Darius II., the successor of Artaxerxes.
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