This volume examines conditional structures in Old Babylonian from a linguistic point of view, drawing on a corpus of letters, law collections, and omens. All o

A Grammar of Old Assyrian is a grammar of the earliest stage of Assyrian (1900-1700 BC), a Semitic language that is one of the main varieties of Akkadian, and d

Ancient States and Infrastructural Power examines how early states built their territorial, legal, and political powers before they had the capacity to enforce

The articles in the present volume offer an updated view of the breadth of theoretical and empirical research being carried on in the different subgroups of the

Mesopotamia is often considered to be the birthplace of law codes. In recognition of this fact and motivated by the perennial interest in the topic among Assyri