Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal Linda Farber Post by the religious community itself

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Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal Linda Farber Post by the religious community itselfThe letters edited in this volume represent the correspondence of various priests and high temple officials in the Assyrian realm during the third through fifth decades of the seventh century BC. They consist chiefly of reports to Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal about cultic concerns and matters connected with the construction and renovation of temple edifices in the major cities of the Assyrian empire, both in the heartland and in the provinces. These