Кулинарные вавилонские тексты Британского музея - Babylonian Culinary Texts of the British Museum

Mesopotamian Culinary Texts By JEAN BOTTERO. Mesopotamian Civilizations, vol. 6. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 1995. Pp. x 252, including plates. $ A delectable pleasure to read and review, this book is a chef d’oeuvre of cuisine and of Assyriology and splendidly reflects the lifelong research interests, culinary talents, and character of Jean Bottero. The technical parts of the book are in French, but chapter 2, titled “The Yale Culinary Tablets,“ is “an adapted version of the relevant sections of ’The Culinary Tablets at Yale,’ JAOS 107 (1987): lift.“ (p. 3), plus a new English translation of the Akkadian culinary texts based on the French “traduction suivie“ in chapter 4, and a broad ranging appraisal of their contents based on chapter 7 (“Tableau general de la cuisine“).