Administration and Society in Kassite Babylonia‪.‬

Leonhard Sassmannshausen's book, a revision of his doctoral dissertation, discusses political, social, and economic institutions of Babylonia under the Kassite dynasty. It also publishes for the first time several hundred economic texts from the period. This ambitious combination of new documentation and detailed evaluation of data provides a reference work that will be consulted with profit by scholars. Part I of the volume (pp. 1-181), entitled "Social Groups and Institutions in Babylonia during the Kassite Period," has three principal divisions: (a) offices and occupations, (b) ethnic groups, and (c) institutions and buildings. It assembles a useful compendium of textual data on these topics, including occasional references to unpublished material.