title: Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia (2 Volumes)
author: Daniel David Luckenbill
description: Babylonians were very fond of compiliing lists of kings
zlib_text: Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record
  edited by Eckart Frahm and Michael Jursa
  Volume 5
  
  Eckart Frahm
  Babylonian and Assyrian 
  Text Commentaries 
  Origins of Interpretation
  Ugarit-Verlag 
  Munster 2011
  
  To the memory of my teacher, Rykle Borger.
  Eckart Frahm:
  Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries. 
  Origins of Interpretation
  Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record, Vol. 5
  ©2011 Ugarit-Verlag Munster
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  All rights preserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval 
  system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo-copying, 
  recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.
  Herstellung: Hubert & Co, Gottingen 
  Printed in Germany
  ISBN 978-3-86835-056-2
  Printed on acid-free paper
  
  Acknowledgements
  The present book is the result of a long, and somewhat uneven, gestation. I be­
  gan my work on a study of Babylonian and Assyrian text commentaries in the 
  late nineteen-nineties as a t