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This volume provides a selection of letters from ancient Western Asia up to the time of the First Dynasty of Isin. These letters were written on clay tablets with the cuneiform script; they are the earliest epistolary writings known to us from any part of the globe. The texts are translated from three languages—Sumerian, Eblaite, and Old Akkadian—all of which are imperfectly understood at...

II Letters from the Sargonic Period Early third-millennium attempts to create larger political units in southern Mesopotamia left little trace in the historical record. A larger polity may have existed farther north, centered on the city of Kish, but very little in the way of written documentation has survived from the area. Around 2330 BCE a king of the Sumerian city of Uruk by the name of Lugalzagesi managed to take control of most of the south, but his hegemony was short-lived;
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