Personal Names in Early Neo-Babylonian Legal and Administrative Tablet

Between 747 and 625 BCE, from the accession of Nabonassar to that of Nabopolassar, Babylon enjoyed a long stretch of stability under the shadow of Assyrian power. Economic life quickened, and the legal and administrative tablets that survive from these decades record the buyers, sellers, witnesses and officials of a busy society. John Nielsen gathers the personal names from these texts into a single prosopographical index.

Modelled on the Helsinki Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire project and designed as a supplement to it, the index cross-references the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, Stamm's Namengebung, the PNAE volumes, Hölscher's Personennamen and Tallqvist's Neubabylonisches Namenbuch. This is a specialist reference work, not a book of baby names: a steady, essential tool for Assyriologists and historians of Babylonian society, economy and demography.