ABSTRACT
The large collections of letters from Kanesh are available in dispersed publications only, e.g. Emin Bilgic, Ankaraner KultepeTexte III, Texte der Grabungskampagne 1970, Stuttgart: F.Steiner Verlag, 1995. A major research project in Leiden has edited and translated into German or English a large number of Old Babylonian letters, published in the series Altbabylonische Briefe in Umschrift und Übersetzung (13 volumes). In the Old Babylonian palace at Mari in Syria a very large number of letters have been found, primarily published, with a French translation, in the series Archives royales de Mari (27 volumes). A selection is provided in a recent French re-translation by Jean-Marie Durand, Les Docu ments épistolaires du palais de Mari, Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1997. NeoAssyrian palace correspondence from Nineveh is being republished in the series State Archives of Assyria, edited in Helsinki. Three volumes of letters have appeared so far. Letters from other periods are available in smaller quantities only or in older publications.
