The basic manuscript of this volume was prepared by J. N. Postgate and F. M. Fales. The specific contributions of the individual editors are set forth in the Introduction. We wish to express our appreciation to the editors for embarking on the task of preparing an edition of this important corpus which has not been presented in either transliteration or translation since the copies became available almost a century ago. We are particularly grateful to Nicholas Postgate who shouldered the burden of most of the editorial work and thoroughly recollated all the texts included in the volume. This was particularly important for this volume because it is the editio princeps for the vast majority of the texts included in it.
Our thanks are due to the Trustees of the British Museum for permission to publish illustrative material in their keeping and to the British Museum photographic department for its prompt and professional service. Again we thank I. L. Finkel of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum for last-minute collations.
We thank the Olivetti (Finland) Corporation for continuing technical support and the Finnish Ministry of Education for subsidies to help offset the costs of publication, and we express our gratitude to the Academy of Finland for continuing financial support for the Project.
The Project wishes especially to acknowledge the support provided by the University of Helsinki in the form of a substantial grant from its research funds.
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F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate, 'Foreword', Imperial Administrative Records, Part I: Palace and Temple Administration, SAA 7. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1992; online contents: SAAo/SAA07 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2021 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa07/foreword/]