这部期待已久的作品是CTMMA系列的最后一卷,完成了大都会艺术博物馆收藏的所有楔形文字铭牌和铭文(不包括雕塑、浮雕和印章上的铭文)的出版。共发表183篇文字,包括154块楔形文字和石碑碎片,1个泥塑铭文,14个陶土圆筒,5个陶土棱镜和4个石刻铭文。经济和行政文本来自西帕尔、巴比伦、基什、迪尔巴特、尼普尔、德雷姆、乌鲁克和巴比伦尼亚和古伊朗的其他地点。公元前一千年皇家铭文可以追溯到阿舒尔纳西尔帕、西拿基立、以撒哈顿、亚述巴尼拔、尼布甲尼撒和拿波尼都统治时期。文本分为五个部分:第一部分包含新和晚期巴比伦的经济和行政石板以及西帕尔埃巴巴尔神庙档案的碎片。第二部分包括新和晚期巴比伦时期的经济和行政碑从巴比伦尼亚和其他地点。第三部分包括后期巴比伦的行政和档案碑。第四部分包含皇家和非皇家的砖、石、圆球、圆柱和棱镜铭文,从第二和第一千年公元前。一个fin nal部分(第五部分)包括三个原始楔形文字的古碑和两个Ur III行政碑。 Professors Ira Spar (Professor of Ancient Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey and Research Assyriologist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Michael Jursa (University Professor of Assyriology, University of Vienna) were assisted by a team of distinguished scholars and conservators who provided valuable insights into the preparation of scholarly editions of the texts, seal impressions, and technical analysis published in this volume. Ira Spar hand copied and made facsimile drawings of the Museum’s texts with the assistance of Charles H. Wood. Jo Ann Wood-Brown and Charles H. Wood prepared drawings of seal impressions and divine symbols. This four-volume series of publications reaffirms the Museum’s ongoing commitment to promoting wider knowledge of ancient Near Eastern civilizations. Volume one documents 120 tablets, cones, and bricks from the third and second millennia B.C. Volume two publishes 106 religious, scientific, scholastic, and literary texts written in Akkadian and Sumerian that primarily date to the later part of the first millennium B.C. Volume three includes 164 private archival texts and fragments from the first millennium B.C. 442 pages, 174 plates, including drawings of 183 texts and photographs of selected tablets.