{"title":"Grain Deliveries to the Royal Palace in Babylon during the Reign of Nebuchadnezzar II","authors":"G. V. Buylaere","doi":"10.1086/719867","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The present contribution is the editio princeps of six large, single-column tablets, found in the N1 administrative archive of Babylon and presently located in the İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri. They document substantial barley and emmer wheat deliveries to the Babylonian capital in the tenth and twentieth years of Nebuchadnezzar II’s reign and reveal an efficient administrative apparatus with a multitude of palace officials, scribes, accountants, and measurers.","PeriodicalId":36366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cuneiform Studies","volume":"74 1","pages":"139 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Cuneiform Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719867","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The present contribution is the editio princeps of six large, single-column tablets, found in the N1 administrative archive of Babylon and presently located in the İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri. They document substantial barley and emmer wheat deliveries to the Babylonian capital in the tenth and twentieth years of Nebuchadnezzar II’s reign and reveal an efficient administrative apparatus with a multitude of palace officials, scribes, accountants, and measurers.