Sargonic and Presargonic Texts in The World Museum Liverpool

A new study of the Old Akkadian tablets in the collection of the World Museum Liverpool. It comprises three sections. Chapter 1 recounts the modern history of the tablets, dealing with the acquisition of the tablets in the early twentieth century and surveying scholarly treatments of the texts. Chapter 2 discusses chronology and offers some interpretations of their historical context based on internal evidence. The final section presents the 49 texts themselves.