Miscellaneous Early Dynastic And Sargonic Texts In The Cornell University Collections

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Miscellaneous Early Dynastic and Sargonic Texts in the Cornell University Collections

Author : Vitali Bartash
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ISBN 13 : 9781934309490
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Miscellaneous Early Dynastic and Sargonic Texts in the Cornell University Collections written by Vitali Bartash and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I -Texts from the Umma Region -- I.1 -- Administrative -- Early dynastic iiia -- Early dynastic iiib -- Early Sargonic -- Early to middle Sargonic -- Classical Sargonic -- I.2 -- legal -- I.3 -- Mathematical -- I.4 -- School/exercise -- Texts from Adab -- Ii. 1 -- Administrative -- Early dynastic iiia/b -- Early dynastic to early Sargonic -- Early Sargonic -- Early to middle Sargonic -- Middle Sargonic -- Middle to classical Sargonic -- Classical Sargonic -- Late Sargonic -- Ii. 2 -- bulla -- Ii. 3 -- legal -- Ii. 4 -- letter -- Texts of uncertain provenance -- Iii. 1 -- Administrative texts -- Early dynastic -- Early Sargonic -- Middle to classical Sargonic -- Classical Sargonic -- Late Sargonic -- Iii. 2 -- mathematical -- Iii. 3 -- royal/monumental -- Iii. 4 -- school/exercise.

Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two

Author : A. R. George
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020146
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two by : A. R. George

Download or read book Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two written by A. R. George and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Mesopotamia, men training to be scribes copied model letters in order to practice writing and familiarize themselves with epistolary forms and expressions. Similarly, model contracts were used to teach them how to draw up agreements for the transactions typical of everyday economic life. This volume makes available a trove of previously unknown tablets and fragments, now housed in the Shøyen Collection, that were produced in the training of scribes in Old Babylonian schools. Following on Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part One: Selected Letters, this volume publishes the contents of sixty-five tablets bearing Akkadian letters used to train scribes and twenty-six prisms and tablets carrying Sumerian legal texts copied in the same context. Each text is presented in transliterated form and in translation, with appropriate commentary and annotations and, at the end of the book, photographs of the cuneiform. The material is made easily navigable by a catalogue, bibliography, and indexes. This collection of previously unknown documents expands the extant corpus of educational texts, making an essential contribution to the study of the ancient world.

Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Author : Christopher Metcalf
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020111
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection by : Christopher Metcalf

Download or read book Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection written by Christopher Metcalf and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a series of volumes publishing the Sumerian literary texts in the Schøyen Collection, this book makes available, for the first time, editions of seventeen cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BCE and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Edited, translated, and annotated by Christopher Metcalf, these poems shed light on the interaction between cult, scholarship, and scribal culture in Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE. The present volume contains fourteen songs composed in praise of the various gods of the Mesopotamian pantheon; it is believed that these songs were typically performed in temple cults. Among them are a song in praise of Sud, goddess of the ancient Mesopotamian city Shuruppak; a song describing the statue of the protective goddess Lamma-saga in the “Sacred City” temple complex at Girsu; and a previously unknown hymn dedicated to the creator god Enki. Each text is provided in transliteration and translation and accompanied by hand-copies and images of the tablets themselves. Expertly contextualizing each song in Babylonian religious and literary history, this thoroughly competent editio princeps will prove a valuable tool for scholars interested in the literary and religious traditions of ancient Mesopotamia.

Ur III Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Author : Jacob L. Dahl
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020774
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Ur III Texts in the Schøyen Collection by : Jacob L. Dahl

Download or read book Ur III Texts in the Schøyen Collection written by Jacob L. Dahl and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judging from the sheer amount of textual material left to us, the rulers of ancient Ur were above all else concerned with keeping track of their poorest subjects, who made up the majority of the population under their jurisdiction. Year after year, administrators recorded, in frightening detail, the whereabouts of the poorest individuals in monthly and yearly rosters, assigning tiny parcels of land to countless prebend holders and starvation rations to even more numerous estate slaves. The texts published in this volume—dating from the time of the Third Dynasty of Ur (ca. 2100–2000 BC)—attest to the immense investment of the ancient rulers in managing their subjects. This volume presents editions of two hundred and twenty-four cuneiform tablets selected from the Schøyen Collection, the vast majority of which have not been previously published. The ancient provenience for these texts is primarily Umma, with other core provinces represented in smaller numbers, such as notable contributions from ancient Adab, which is underrepresented in the published record. In order to provide a fuller picture of the administration of the Ur III state, a number of texts from other collections, both published and unpublished, have been integrated into this volume. Accompanied by Jacob L. Dahl’s precise translations, extensive commentary, and exhaustive indexes, this volume presents extensive new data on prosopography, economy, accounting procedures, letters, contracts, technical terminology, and agriculture that adds significantly to our knowledge of society and the economy during the Third Dynasty of Ur. An important contribution to the study of the Ur III period, in particular for Assyriology, this volume will serve as a useful handbook for scholars and students alike.

Tablets from the Iri-saĝrig Archive

Author : Marcel Sigrist
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646021436
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Tablets from the Iri-saĝrig Archive written by Marcel Sigrist and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While each of the previously known archives from the Third Dynasty of Ur has provided distinct views of Sumerian society, those from Iri-Saĝrig present an extraordinary range of new sources, depicting a cosmopolitan Sumerian/Akkadian city unlike any other from this period. In this publication, Marcel Sigrist and Tohru Ozaki present more than two thousand newly identified tablets, mostly from Iri-Saĝrig. This unique and extensive corpus elucidates the importance that Iri-Saĝrig represented politically, militarily, and culturally in Sumer. Although these tablets were not able to be cleaned, baked, or photographed, the authors’ transliterations are based on the original tablets, often after repeated collations. Moreover, access to so many well-preserved tablets made it possible to improve upon the readings and interpretations offered in previous publications. Volume 1 contains a catalog and classification of the texts by provenance, a list of month names and year formulas, another of inscriptions, a chronological listing of the texts, and extensive indexes of personal names, deities, toponyms, and selected words and phrases. Volume 2 presents the texts in transliteration with substantial commentary. This two-volume publication preserves and makes available to the scholarly community a significant segment of Iraq’s cultural legacy that otherwise might have been ignored or even lost. It will augment and enhance our understanding of the unique civilization of Mesopotamia in the late third millennium BCE.

Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia

Author : Alhena Gadotti
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646021800
Total Pages : 305 pages
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Book Synopsis Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia by : Alhena Gadotti

Download or read book Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia written by Alhena Gadotti and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman investigate how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities. Despite the fact that it was a dead language at the time, Sumerian was considered a crucial part of scribal training due to its cultural importance. This book provides transliterations and translations of 715 cuneiform scribal school exercise texts from the Jonathan and Jeanette Rosen Ancient Near Eastern Studies Collection at Cornell University. These tablets, consisting mainly of lexical texts, illustrate the process of elementary foreign-language training at scribal schools during the Old Babylonian period. Although the tablets are all without provenance, discrepancies between these texts and those from other sites, such as Nippur and Ur, strongly suggest that the texts published here do not come from a previously studied location. Comparing these tablets with previously published documents, Gadotti and Kleinerman argue that elementary education in Mesopotamia was relatively standardized and that knowledge of cuneiform writing was more widespread than previously assumed. By refining our understanding of education in southern Mesopotamia, this volume elucidates more fully the pedagogical underpinnings of the world’s first curriculum devised to teach a dead language. As a text edition, it will make these important documents accessible to Assyriologists and Sumerologists for future study.

Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646021509
Total Pages : 525 pages
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Download or read book Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Ur—now modern Tell el-Muqayyar in southern Iraq, also called Ur of the Chaldees in the Bible—was one of the most important Sumerian cities in Mesopotamia during the Early Dynastic Period in the first half of the third millennium BCE. The city is known for its impressive wealth and artistic achievements, evidenced by the richly decorated objects found in the so-called Royal Cemetery, which was excavated by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania from 1922 until 1934. Ur was also the cult center of the moon god, and during the twenty-first century BCE, it was the capital of southern Mesopotamia. With contributions from both established and rising Assyriologists from ten countries and edited by three leading scholars of Assyriology, this volume presents thirty-two essays based on papers delivered at the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held in Philadelphia in 2016. Reflecting on the theme “Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE,” the chapters deal with archaeological, artistic, cultural, economic, historical, and textual matters connected to the ancient city of Ur. Three of the chapters are based on plenary lectures by senior scholars Richard Zettler, Jonathan Taylor, and Katrien De Graef. The remainder of the essays, arranged alphabetically by author, highlight innovative new directions for research and represent a diverse array of topics related to Ur in various periods of Mesopotamian history. Tightly focused in theme, yet broad in scope, this collection will be of interest to Assyriologists and archaeologists working on Iraq.

Early Dynastic and Early Sargonic Tablets from Adab in the Cornell University Collections

Author : Giuseppe Visicato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934309100
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Early Dynastic and Early Sargonic Tablets from Adab in the Cornell University Collections written by Giuseppe Visicato and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A total of 369 cuneiform texts are published with full translations in this volume, the majority (342) from Adab, nodern tell Bismaya with the remaining 27 texts from other sites. The tablets span the period from EDIIIa through the early Sargonic period, roughly 2600 to 2300 B.C.E. The archive of 180 texts from the reign of Meskigalla is the richest and most important corpus, with documents written over a very short period, between Sargon's war against Lugalzagesi and his subsequent campaigns against Mari, Ebla, and Yarmuti.

Early Dynastic and Early Sargonic Administrative Texts

Author : Palmiro Notizia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934309704
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Early Dynastic and Early Sargonic Administrative Texts written by Palmiro Notizia and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published and unpublished ED IIIb and Early Sargonic texts -- From the Umma Region -- Content of the texts -- City-rulers of Umma and chief administrators of the Temple of Inanna -- At Zabalam : the new evidence -- Unpublished ED IIIb - Early Sargonic texts -- From the Umma Region in CDLI -- Catalogue -- Concordance -- The texts -- Sheep -- Livestock -- Hides -- Fodder -- Ghee, cheese and lard -- Wool and garments -- Vegetables, fruit, flax, fish, timber, tools, military equipment -- Fields -- Personnel -- Sale documents and legal texts -- Metals -- Various contents -- Content not clear -- Barley, flour, bread, beer -- School texts -- Texts from the Adab Region and of uncertain provenance

The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near East

Author : Brigitte Lion
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614519080
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near East written by Brigitte Lion and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic history is well documented in Assyriology, thanks to the preservation of dozens of thousands of clay tablets recording administrative operations, contracts and acts dealing with family law. Despite these voluminous sources, the topic of work and the contribution of women have rarely been addressed. This book examines occupations involving women over the course of three millennia of Near Eastern history. It presents the various aspects of women as economic agents inside and outside of the family structure. Inside the family, women were the main actors in the production of goods necessary for everyday life. In some instances, their activities exceeded the simple needs of the household and were integrated within the production of large organizations or commercial channels. The contributions presented in this volume are representative enough to address issues in various domains: social, economic, religious, etc., from varied points of view: archaeological, historical, sociological, anthropological, and with a gender perspective. This book will be a useful tool for historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and graduate students interested in the economy of the ancient Near East and in women and gender studies.

Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period

Author : Nicholas L. Kraus
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900444324X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols)

Author : Juan-Pablo Vita
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004445218
Total Pages : 1677 pages
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Book Synopsis History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols) by : Juan-Pablo Vita

Download or read book History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols) written by Juan-Pablo Vita and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 1677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Akkadian Language offers a detailed chronological survey of the oldest known Semitic language and one of history’s longest written records. The outcome is presented in 26 chapters written by 25 leading authors.

Babel und Bibel 9

Author : Leonid E. Kogan
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575064499
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Babel und Bibel 9 written by Leonid E. Kogan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the ninth volume of Babel und Bibel, an annual of ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament, and Semitic studies. The principal goal of the annual is to reveal the inherent relationship between Assyriology, Semitics, and biblical studies—a relationship that our predecessors comprehended and fruitfully explored but that is often neglected today. The title Babel und Bibel is intended to point to the possibility of fruitful collaboration among the three disciplines, in an effort to explore the various civilizations of the ancient Near East. This volume includes as a major portion of its contents selected papers from the 6th Biannual Meeting of the International Association for Comparative Semitics.

The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East

Author : Karen Radner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019068786X
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East written by Karen Radner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Written by a highly diverse, international team of leading scholars, whose expertise brings to life the people, places, and times of the remote past, the volumes in this series focus firmly on the political and social histories of the states and communities of the ancient Near East. Individual chapters present the key textual and material sources underpinning the historical reconstruction, paying particular attention to the most recent archaeological finds and their impact on our historical understanding of the periods surveyed. Commencing with the domestication of plants and animals, and the foundation of the first permanent settlements in the region, Volume I contains ten chapters that provide a masterful survey of the earliest dynasties and territorial states in the ancient Near East, concluding with the rise of the Old Kingdom in Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad in Mesopotamia. Politics, ideology, religion, art, crafts, economy, military developments, and the built environment are all examined. Uniquely, emphasis is placed upon elucidating both the internal dynamics of these states and communities, as well as their external relationships with their neighbors in the wider region. The result is a thoughtful, critical, and robust survey of the populations that laid the foundation for all future developments in the ancient Near East.

Establishing Value

Author : Vitali Bartash
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501510266
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Establishing Value written by Vitali Bartash and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the reasons for which weights and scales were used to measure goods in Early Mesopotamia (ca. 3,200-2,000 BCE). The vast corpus of cuneiform records from this period sheds light on the various mechanisms behind the development of this cultural innovation. Weighing became the means of articulating the value of both imported and locally-produced goods within a socioeconomic system that had reached an unprecedented level of complexity. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of this cultural and economic phenomenon, which simultaneously reflected and shaped the relationships between individuals and groups in Mesopotamia throughout the third millennium BCE.

CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions

Author : Vanessa Bigot Juloux
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004375082
Total Pages : 486 pages
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Download or read book CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions written by Vanessa Bigot Juloux and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions is now available on PaperHive! PaperHive is a new free web service that offers a platform to authors and readers to collaborate and discuss, using already published research. Please visit the platform to join the conversation. CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions provides case studies on archaeology, objects, cuneiform texts, and online publishing, digital archiving, and preservation. Eleven chapters present a rich array of material, spanning the fifth through the first millennium BCE, from Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Iran. Customized cyber- and general glossaries support readers who lack either a technical background or familiarity with the ancient cultures. Edited by Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell, and Alessandro Di Ludovico, this volume is dedicated to broadening the understanding and accessibility of digital humanities tools, methodologies, and results to Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Ultimately, this book provides a model for introducing cyber-studies to the mainstream of humanities research.

A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East

Author : Douglas R. Frayne
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646021274
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East written by Douglas R. Frayne and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the tragic young Adonis to Zašhapuna, first among goddesses, this handbook provides the most complete information available on deities from the cultures and religions of the ancient Near East, including Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam. The result of nearly fifteen years of research, this handbook is more expansive and covers a wider range of sources and civilizations than any previous reference works on the topic. Arranged alphabetically, the entries range from multiple pages of information to a single line—sometimes all that we know about a given deity. Where possible, each record discusses the deity’s symbolism and imagery, connecting it to the myths, rituals, and festivals described in ancient sources. Many of the entries are accompanied by illustrations that aid in understanding the iconography, and they all include references to texts in which the god or goddess is mentioned. Appropriate for both trained scholars and nonacademic readers, this book collects centuries of Near Eastern mythology into one volume. It will be an especially valuable resource for anyone interested in Assyriology, ancient religion, and the ancient Near East.