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The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces
This subproject of State Archives of Assyria online (SAAo) includes web versions of the 389 Neo-Assyrian texts edited in the book A. Fuchs and S. Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. The corpus can be browsed by clicking on this link [/saao/saa15/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/SAA15 have been adapted from A. Fuchs and S. Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001, and they were lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, 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.
