The Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, about B.C. 2200, to which are added a Series of Letters of other Kings of the First Dynasty of Babylon
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The Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, about B.C. 2200, to which are added a Series of Letters of other Kings of the First Dynasty of Babylon

by Hammurabi King of Babylonia, Leonard William King

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The three-volume work is subtitled “The original Babylonian Texts, edited from Tablets in the British Museum, with English Translations, Summaries of Contents, etc.”
It was published in *Luzac's Semitic Text and Translation Series, Vol. II, III*, and *VIII*.

- Volume I.: Introduction and the Babylonian texts. London : Luzac and Co., 1898.
- Volume II.: Babylonian texts, continued. London : Luzac and Co., 1900.
- Volume III.: English translations, etc. London : Luzac and Co., 1900.

See also: “Review of The Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi” / by G. S. Goodspeed, in: The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, April, 1901, vol. 17, no. 3, p. 174–177 [in English].

Reprints are [s.l., s.n.], 1965 (private offset ed.); New York, AMS Press, 1976 (Hardcover); Whitefish, Kessinger Publ. Co., 2006 (Paperback); ibid., 2007 (Hardcover); [s.l.], Lightning Source Inc., 2009; Whitefish, Kessinger Publ. Co., 2010; etc.