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Assyrian Prophecies

This subproject of State Archives of Assyria online (SAAo) includes web versions of the eleven Neo-Assyrian texts edited in the book S. Parpola, Assyrian Prophecies (State Archives of Assyria, 9), 1997. The corpus can be browsed by clicking on this link [/saao/saa09/pager]. Note, at present (May, 2020), that the book is not available at the publisher Eisenbrauns [https://www.eisenbrauns.org/books/series/book_SeriesStateArchivesofAssyria.html ], an imprint of Penn State University Press.

The editions presented on SAAo/SAA09 have been adapted from S. Parpola, Assyrian Prophecies (State Archives of Assyria, 9), 1997, and they were lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, as part of the AHRC-funded research project "Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC" (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0.

Click here [/saao/index.html] to visit the Main SAAo Portal and this link [/saao/pager] to browse the entire SAA corpus.

Since August 2015, SAAo has been part of the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative [https://www.en.ag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/research/mocci/index.html] (MOCCI), which is based at and supported by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München [https://www.en.uni-muenchen.de/index.html]. Between 2015 and 2020, work on SAAo was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation [https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/home.html] through funds provided to LMU's Alexander von Humboldt Chair of the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East [https://www.en.ag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/chairs/chair_radner/staff_radner/index.html].

For further details, see the "About the Project" [/saao/abouttheproject/index.html] page.

SAAo/SAA09, 2014-. Since 2015, SAAo is based at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Historisches Seminar (LMU Munich, History Department) - Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East. Content released under a CC BY-SA 3.0 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/] license, 2007-20.
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