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Boiy, T.
2004. "RIAA2 293-300. Hellenistic Legal Documents in the Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels)," Akkadica 124/1: 19-64.

Clay, A.T.
1912. Babylonian Business Transactions of the First Millennium BC. BRM 1. New York.

1913. Legal Documents from Erech Dated in the Seleucid Era (312-65 B.C.). BRM 2. New York.

Contenau, G.
1929. Contrats néo-babyloniens achéménides et séleucides II. TCL 13. Paris.

Corò, P.
2005. Prebende templari in età Seleucide 2005 HANE 8. Padova: SARGON.

van Dijk, J. and W.R. Meyer
1980. Texte aus dem Reš-Heiligtum in Uruk-Warka. BaM Beiheft 2. Berlin.

Hunger, H.
1976. Spätbabylonische Texte aus Uruk I. ADFU 9. Berlin.

McEwan, G.J.P.
1982. Texts from Hellenistic Babylonia in the Ashmolean Museum. OECT 9. Oxford.

Moore, E.W.
1935. Neo-Babylonian Business and Administrative Documents. Ann Arbor.

Neugebauer, O.
1955. Astronomical Cuneiform Texts. Princeton, N.J.

1935-37. Mathematische Keilschrift-Texte. Berlin.

Nies, J.B. and C.E. Kaiser
1920. Historical, Religious and Economic Texts and Antiquities. BIN 2. New Haven.

Oppert J. and J. Mént.
1877. Documents juridiques de l’Assyrie et de la Chaldée. Paris.

Sarkisijan, G.Kh.
1974. "New Cuneiform Texts from Uruk of the Seleucid Period in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin," Forschung und Berichte 16: 15-58

1955. "Castnye klinopisnye kontrakty selevkidskogo vremeni iz sobranija gosudarstvennogo Ermitaža," VDI 1955/4: 136-62.

Schroeder, O.
1916. Kontrakte der Seleukidenzeit aus Warka.VAS 15. Leipzig.

van der Spek, R.J.
Hellenistic Babylonian Chronicles.

Speleers, L.
1925. Recueil des inscriptions de l′asie antérieure des Musées Royaux du Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles: Textes sumériens, babyloniens et assyriens. Brussels.

Thureau-Dangin, F.
1922. Tablettes d′Uruk à l′usage des prêtres du Temple d′Anu. TCL 6 (TU). Paris.

Wallenfels, R.
1998. Seleucid Archival Texts in the Harvard Semitic Museum. CM 12. Groningen.

Weisberg, D.B.
1991. The Late Babylonian Texts of the Oriental Institute Collection. BiMes 24. Malibu.

von Weiher, E.
1983. Spätbabylonische Texte aus Uruk II. ADFU 10. Berlin.

1988. Spätbabylonische Texte aus Uruk III. ADFU 12. Berlin.

1993. Spätbabylonische Texte aus Uruk IV. AUWE 12. Mainz am Rhein.

1998. Spätbabylonische Texte aus Uruk V. AUWE 13. Mainz am Rhein.

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Seal Impressions

Invernizzi, A.
2004. Seleucia al Tigri: le impronte di sigillo dagli archivi. Alessandria.

Lindström, G.
2003. Uruk: Siegelabdrücke aus hellenistischen Tonbullen und Tontafeln. AUWE 20. Mainz am Rhein.

Wallenfels, R.
1994. Uruk: Hellenistic Seal Impressions in the Yale Babylonian Collection I. Cuneiform Tablets. AUWE 19. Mainz am Rhein.

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Secondary Studies

Beaulieu, P.-A.
2000. The Descendants of Sin-lēqi-unninni. Pp. 1-16 in J. Marzahn and H. Neumann, eds. Assyriologica et Semitica: Festschrift für Joachim Oelsner. AOAT 252. Münster.

1989. "Textes Administratives inédits d’époque héllénistique provenant des archives du bīt Rēš," RA 83:53-81.

Beaulieu, P.-A. and F. Rochberg
1996. The Horoscope of Anu-bēlšunu. JCS 48:89-94.

Boiy, T.
1998. BM 59748, 28.XIIa.43 SE: an exception to the Babylonian intercalary cycle? NABU §5:6-7

2001. Dating Problems in Cuneiform Tablets Concerning the Reign of Antigonus Monophthalmus. JAOS 121:645-649.

2002. The "Accession Year" in the Late Achaemenid and Early Hellenistic Period. Pp. 25-33 in C Wunsch, ed. Mining the Archives. Festschrift for Christopher Walker on the Occasion of His 60 Birthday. Dresden.

2004. Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon. OLA 136. Leuven.

2005. Akkadian-Greek Double Names in Hellenistic Babylonia. Pp. 47-60 in W.H. van Soldt, ed. Ethnicity in Ancient Mesopotamia. Papers Read at the 48th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Leiden, 1-4 July 2002. Leiden.

2005. The Fifth and Sixth Generation of the Nikarchos = Anu-uballit. RA 99:105-110.

2007. Between High and Low: a Chronology of the Early Hellenistic Period. Oikumene 5. Frankfurt am Main.

Bowman, R. A.
1939. "Anu-uballit—Kefalon" AJSL 56:231-43.

Brentjes, B.
2000. Hellenistisches in der Baukunst von Nisa. Pp. 17-27 in J. Marzahn and H. Neumann, eds. Assyriologica et Semitica: Festschrift für Joachim Oelsner. AOAT 252. Münster.

Briant, P.
1983. "Communautés de Base" et "Économie royale" en Asie achéménide et hellénistique. Les communautés rurales. Recueils de la Société Jean Bodin pour l’histoire 41: 315-343

1990. The Seleucid Kingdom, the Achaemenid Empire and the History of the Near East in the First Millennium BC. Pp. 40-65 in P. Bilde, et al, eds. Religion and Religious Practice in the Seleucid Kingdom. Aarhus.

Doty, L. T.
1977. Cuneiform Archives from Hellenistic Uruk. Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale.

1978. "The Archive of the Nanâ-iddin Family from Uruk" JCS 30: 65-90.

1979. "An Official Seal of the Seleucid Period" JNES 38: 195-97.

1988. "Nikarchos and Kephalon," Pp. 95-118 in E. Leichty, M. Ellis, eds. A Scientific Humanist: Studies in Memory of Abraham Sachs. OPSNKF 9. Philadelphia.

1993. "Akkadian bīt pirišti," Pp. 87-89 in M. Cohen, D.C. Snell, D.B. Weisberg, eds., The Tablet and the Scroll: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo. Bethesda.

Funck, B.
1984. Uruk zur Seleukidenzeit. Schriften zur Geschichte und Kultur des alten Orients 16. Berlin.

Grainger, J.D.
1997. Seleucid Prosopography and Gazetteer. Leiden.

Hunger, H.
1968. Babylonische und assyrische Kolophone. AOAT 2. Neukirchen-Vluyn.

Joannès, F.
1982. Textes Économiques de la Babylonie récente. Paris.

1997. "Le monde occidental vu de Mésopotamie, de l’époque néo-babylonienne à l’époque hellénistique," Transeuphratène 13:141-153.

2000. Une chronique judiciare d’époque hellénistique et le châtiment des sacrilèges à Babylone. Pp. 193-211 in J. Marzahn and H. Neumann, eds. Assyriologica et Semitica: Festschrift für Joachim Oelsner. AOAT 252. Münster.

Kessler, K.
1984. "Eine arsakidenzeitliche Urkunde aus Warka," BaM 15: 261-272.

2000. Hellenistische Tempelverwaltungstexte. Pp. 213-241 in J. Marzahn and H. Neumann, eds. Assyriologica et Semitica: Festschrift für Joachim Oelsner. AOAT 252. Münster.

Kuhrt, A. and S. Sherwin-White.
1994. The Transition from Achaemenid to Seleucid Rule in Babylonia: Revolution or Evolution? Pp. 311-327 in H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg, A. Kuhrt and M. C. Root, eds. Continuity and Change. Proceedings of the Last Achaemenid History Workshop. April 6-8, 1990. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Achaemenid History 8. Leiden.

McEwan, G.J.P.
1981. Priest and Temple in Hellenistic Babylonia. FAOS 4. Wiesbaden.

Oelsner, J.
Die Entwicklung der Kolophone im neu- und spätbabylonische Uruk. Hommage au Doyen Weiss. Nice. Nouvelle série 27.

1978. "Kontinuität und Wandel in Gesellschaft und Kultur Babyloniens in hellenistischer Zeit," Klio 60:101-116.

1986. Materialien zur babylonischen Gesellschaft und Kultur in hellenistischer Zeit. Budapest.

1996. Siegelung und Archivierung von Dokumenten im hellenistischen Babylonien. Pp. 101-111 in M.-F. Boussac and A. Invernizzi, eds. Archives et sceaux du mond hellénistique. Torino, Villa Gualino 13-16 Gennaio 1993. Paris.

2003. Cuneiform Archives in Hellenistic Babylonia: Aspects of Content and Form. Pp. 284-301 in M. Brosius, ed. Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions. Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World. Oxford.

Pearce, L.E.
1993. "Statements of Purpose: Why the Scribes Wrote," Pp. 185-193 in M. Cohen, et al., eds., The Tablet and the Scroll: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo. Bethesda.

1989/1990. Review of Oelsner 1986, AfO 36/37:136-138.

Pearce, L.E. and L.T. Doty
2000. "The Activities of Anu-belšunu, Seleucid Scribe," Pp. 331-341 in Assyriologica et Semitica. Festschrift für Joachim Oelsner. AOAT 252. Münster.

Rempel, J. and N. Yoffee.
1999. "The End of the Cycle? Assessing the Impact of Hellenization on Mesopotamian Civilization." Pp. 385-398 in B. Böck, et al., eds. Munuscula Mesopotamica. AOAT 267. Münster.

Rutten, M.
1935. Contrats de l’époque Séleucide conservés au Musée du Louvre. Babyloniaca 15. Paris.

Sarkisjan, G.Ch.
1974. "Greek Personal names in Uruk and the Graeco-Babyloniaca problem," AcAnt 22: 495-503.

1983. "Von der Tempelsklaverei im hellenistischen Babylonien" Iraq 45: 131-35.

2000. Zu einigen Besonderheiten der Wiedergabe der griechischen Namen in Keilschrift (nach Materialien aus Uruk). Pp. 401-406 in J. Marzahn and H. Neumann, eds. Assyriologica et Semitica: Festschrift für Joachim Oelsner. AOAT 252. Münster.

Scholz, B.
1978. "Akkadische-Griechische und Griechisch-Akkadische Transkriptionen." Diss. Graz.

Sherwin-White, S.
1987. Hellenism in the East: the Interaction of Greek and Non-Greek Civilizations from Syria to Central Asia after Alexander. Berkeley.

van der Spek, R.J.
1993. "The Astronomical Diaries as a Source for Achaemenid and Seleucid History." BiOr 50: 91-101.

1986. Grondbezit in het Seleucidische Rijk. Amsterdam.

2000. The Šatammus of Esagila in the Seleucid and Arsacid Periods. Pp. 437-46 in J. Marzahn and H. Neumann, eds. Assyriologica et Semitica: Festschrift für Joachim Oelsner. AOAT 252. Münster.

2001. "The Theatre of Babylon in Cuneiform," Pp. 445-446 in W.H. Van Soldt, et al., eds. Studies Presented to Klaas R. Veenhof on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. Istanbul.

Wallenfels, R.
1992. "BiMes 24 – Additional Duplicates and Joins," NABU 1992/27: 23-24.

1993. "Zodiacal Signs among the Seal Impressions from Hellenistic Uruk." Pp. 281-9 in M. E. Cohen, D. Snell and D. B. Weisberg, eds. The Tablet and the Scroll: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo. Bethesda.

1996. "Private Seals and Sealing Practices at Hellenistic Uruk." Pp. 113-123 in M.-F. Boussac and A. Invernizzi, eds. Archives et sceaux du mond hellénistique. Torino, Villa Gualino 13-16 Gennaio 1993. Paris.

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