The edition of the texts presented here and the introduction to the volume were done by Mikko Luukko and Greta Van Buylaere. The specific contributions of Simo Parpola are set forth in the Preface.
This volume brings to completion the publication of the Assyrian language correspondence of Esarhaddon found at Nineveh. The other parts of this correspondence are to be found in SAA 10 and SAA 13.
The Project expresses its thanks to the Trustees of the British Museum for permission to publish texts and illustrative material in their custody, and to jie staff of the Department of the Ancient Near East of the British Museum for their wholehearted and enthusiastic cooperation. Professor R. Borger Göttingen) kindly checked the museum and publication numbers of the tablets included in the edition. We also express our gratitude to the Musée du Louvre and the département des Antiquités orientales for permission to use A0 20155 for Fig. I, and to the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, for permission to use VA 956 for Fig. 8. >We are grateful to the University of Helsinki for its long-standing support for the State Archives of Assyria Project.
Mikko Luukko & Greta van Buylaere
Mikko Luukko & Greta van Buylaere, 'Foreword', The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon, SAA 16. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 2002; online contents: SAAo/SAA16 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2022 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa16/foreword/]