The basic manuscript of this volume was prepared by Laura Kataja and Robert Whiting with significant contributions from Nicholas Postgate and Simo Parpola and important collations by Helmut Freydank. The specific contributions of the idnividual editors and contributors are set forth in the Preface. We are grateful to R. Borger for consultation on museum numbers and publication information of these texts.
Our thanks are due to the trustees of the British Museum for permission to publish texts and illustrative material in their keeping and to the British Museum photographic department for its prompt and professional service. Again, our thanks go to Irving L. Finkel of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities for last minute collations.
We are particularly grateful to Frau Dr. Evelyn Klengel, Director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, not only for permitting collation of the tablets in the Museum's collections on extremely short notice, but also for making arrangements for the collatons to be done, and we are indebted to Helmut Freydank who undertook the collation work. We thank the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft and the Vorderasiatisches Museum for permission to publish a copy of the previously unpublished VAT 9858.
We thank the Olivetti (Finland) Corporation for continuing technical support and the Finnish Ministry of Education for subsidies to help offset the costs of publication, and we express our gratitude to the Academy of Finland and the University of Helsinki for continuing financial support for the Project.
Helsinki, June 1995
Laura Kataja
Robert Whiting
Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting
Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting, 'Foreword', Grants, Decres and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period, SAA 12. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1995; online contents: SAAo/SAA12 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2025 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa12/SAA12Foreword/]