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MIKKO LUUKKO: Grammatical Variation in Neo-Assyrian. (State Archives of Assyria Studies, 16.) xiv, 276 pp. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2004. 951 45 9059 7.

This is the third volume to appear in an ambitious series that presents intensive studies of ancient Mesopotamia in different periods. The period under the spotlight here is the Old Babylonian period, in conventional chronology the first four centuries of the second millennium BC. This fascinating era of Mesopotamian civilization is approached from three different perspectives. Dominique Charpin examines political history (‘‘Histoire politique du Proche-Orient amorrite’’), the late Dietz Edzard covers intellectual life (‘‘Altbabylonische Literatur und Religion’’), and Marten Stol writes on the economy and social institutions (‘‘Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in altbabylonischer Zeit’’). As in previous volumes, the chosen scholars are great authorities on their subjects. Charpin and Stol, especially, have contributed what will be definitive treatments of Old Babylonian history and society for many years, backed up by very extensive referencing that is a bibliographical treasure-house. The book is designed as a work of reference specifically for specialists in Assyriology and colleagues in neighbouring academic fields: this is not an undergraduate textbook, but serious graduate students will turn to it with profit.