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Douglas R. Frayne: Old Babylonian period (2003–1595 B.C.) . (The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Early Periods, Vol. 4.) xxxi, 853 pp., 7 microfiches. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 1990. $195.

This huge book is the second volume in the main series of publications planned by the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project of the University of Toronto. The series as a whole has been well described and commended in the reviews of the first volume (A. K. Grayson, Assyrian rulers of the Third and Second Millennia B.C. = RIMA 1) and needs no further introduction here, except to express the hope that the project continues to receive the funding it needs to bring to eventual conclusion what is destined to be a standard work of monumental importance. Though well over twice the size of Grayson's book, the new volume covers a shorter period, the four centuries from the fall of Ur to the fall of Babylon. The geographical area involved is much larger, of course. Since the scope of the series is comprehensive, Frayne has collected not only the inscriptions of the well-known south Mesopotamian dynasties of Isin, Larsa, Babylon and Uruk, but also those from minor and peripheral political centres, including Kis, Kisurra and Mutalu, Esnunna and the towns of the Diyala and trans-Tigridian regions, Mari on the Middle Euphrates, and other city-states of Syria. Thus the book covers all of Mesopotamia and adjacent areas except for the dominions of the kings of Assyria and in this respect, as well as in others, it more than replaces its only modern rival, the recent editions of Karki in Studia Orientalia.