Nikkhah Bahrami, Gita. 2025. Untersuchungen zu mittelbabylonischen Texten aus Haft-Tappe (dubsar 27). Münster: Zaphon.
G. Nikkhah Bahrami’s study offers a comprehensive edition and cultural-historical and economic-historical investigation of the texts in Middle-Babylonian Akkadian found at Haft-Tappe in the province Khuzestan in southwestern Iran. Following a brief introduction (I.), paleography, syllabary, orthography, and other philological questions concerning the texts are discussed (II.). The third section (III. historical aspects) addresses the question of identifying Haft-Tappe with Kabnak, as well as questions related to the rulers documented at Haft-Tappe and their building activities. After discussing place names and terrain features (IV.), religious and cultic aspects (V.), the legal questions of those texts containing terminology reminiscent of legal contexts are examined (VI.). An overview of social aspects (VII.) addresses the titles of officials, occupational names, and the role of women in the texts from Haft-Tappe; another section examines administrative terminology, data formulas, and the names of administrative departments (VIII.). Following the overview of the various materials that are the focus of each text (IX.), the administrative texts are arranged in the edition (Part B) according to the following categories: metal, stone and glass, reed and wood, mineral substances, textiles, shoes, animal husbandry, foodstuffs, labor, and labor; followed by editions of “Stone Inscription III” and fragmentary texts. Extensive indexes of names and occupational titles, as well as a list of the specifically attested sign forms, supplement the monograph.