New ISAW Library Titles: June 2015

By Gabriel McKee
08/11/2015

A list of books added to the ISAW Library in June 2015 is now available online both on the ISAW Library website and our Zotero library of new items. The titles are sorted in the website version according to thematic topics (e.g., "East Asia" and "Ancient Near East & Asia Minor"); and within each topic, the titles are organized according to Library of Congress classification.

Among the 237 titles added in June are further Assyriological items from the library of Hayim and Miriam Tadmor, including excavation reports, editions of Mesopotamian royal inscriptions, and grammatical studies of Ugaritic, Akkadian, and Elamite.

East Asia is also well represented in this month's new titles, thanks in large part to the addition of items from the collection of Prof. Edward Shaughnessy. One title of note is 長沙馬王堆漢墓簡帛集成, a seven-volume folio publishing a collection of texts discovered in a tomb at Mawangdui in 1973. The book presents the entire corpus of texts, written on silk and dating to the second century B.C., in full-color facsimile. The texts include a number of otherwise unattested medical texts as well as some of the earliest known manuscripts of Chinese classics like the I Ching and the Strategies of the Warring States.