Babylonian Topographical Texts collects for the first time all
Babylonian and Assyrian texts of the first millennium B.C. that belong
to what is designated the topographical genre. Much of the material is
not previously published. The book is largely concerned with Babylon.
Seventeen texts on this city now allow its topography to be properly
understood for the first time. Another seventeen texts concern the
cities of Nippur, Assur, Kish and Uruk. Also included are thirty
miscellaneous texts, mostly new, which bear upon topographical matters.
The text editions and translations are supplemented by a philological
and topical commentary. The work is concluded with full indices, and 57
plates of cuneiform copies.