Persepolis Fortification Tablets (Oriental Institute Publications) [Hardcover]

Richard T Hallock (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0226621952 | ISBN-13: 978-0226621951 | Publication Date: January 1, 1969

With over 2100 texts published, the Persepolis Fortification Texts in Elamite, transcribed, interpreted, and edited by the late Richard Hallock, already form the largest coherent body of material on Persian administration available to us. Essentially, they deal with the movement and expenditure of food commodities in the region of Persepolis in the fifteen years down to 493.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 776 pages
• Publisher: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (January 1, 1969)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226621952
• ISBN-13: 978-0226621951
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9.3 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,805,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Your Visitors Will Be Impressed, November 15, 2001

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This review is from: Persepolis Fortification Tablets (Oriental Institute Publications) (Hardcover)

This is the kind of non-readable but impressive looking book which I leave on the coffee table for strangers to comment on, right under the Lloyd Llewelyn autographed treasury. The tablets of Persepolis are of course the original cache of cuneiform writing, comparable to (and of course older than) the oracle turtle bones of China.

You'll not be able to read them but they're nice to look at and forty bucks is cheaper than a trip to the University of Chicago museum on 57th Street where these are housed.