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Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two

Author : A. R. George
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 164602012X
Total Pages : 528 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 528 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.

A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts

Author : Jöran Friberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387345434
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Book Synopsis A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts by : Jöran Friberg

Download or read book A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts written by Jöran Friberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyzes the mathematical tablets from the private collection of Martin Schoyen. It includes analyses of tablets which have never been studied before. This provides new insight into Babylonian understanding of sophisticated mathematical objects. The book is carefully written and organized. The tablets are classified according to mathematical content and purpose, while drawings and pictures are provided for the most interesting tablets.

Neo-Babylonian Texts in the Oriental Institute Collection

Author : David B. Weisberg
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Neo-Babylonian Texts in the Oriental Institute Collection by : David B. Weisberg

Download or read book Neo-Babylonian Texts in the Oriental Institute Collection written by David B. Weisberg and published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 173 texts contained in this volume were acquired by the Oriental Institute Tablet Collection over a long period of years from various sources. The texts are dated from 699 to 423 BC, during the Neo-Babylonian period. The more noteworthy subject matter of the texts includes an adoption document, sale of houses and a field (from the Nur-Sin archive), a "datio in solutum," a court protocol concerning a loan of silver with interest specified, a loan of silver with interest specified, proceedings in the assembly concerning personal status, a Mar Banutu text from the town of Hubat, a court record concerning the status of a freed person, a contract with fowlers to supply birds to Eanna, an inventory of the finery of the Lady-of-Uruk for craftsmen, a four-column list of precious objects, a two-column list of words, a tablet whose obverse records part of a contract and whose reverse is from Sb B, a fragment of an Akkadian religious text or medical or astrological commentary, and a fragment of a literary text. The book contains transliterations, translations, text notes, commentary, indices, and a mixture of hand-drawn copies and photographs of the tablets.

Women at the Dawn of History

Author : Agnete W. Lassen
Publisher : Yale Babylonian Collection
ISBN 13 : 9781734342000
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Women at the Dawn of History by : Agnete W. Lassen

Download or read book Women at the Dawn of History written by Agnete W. Lassen and published by Yale Babylonian Collection. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the patriarchal world of ancient Mesopotamia, women were often represented in their relation to men - as mothers, daughters, or wives - giving the impression that a woman's place was in the home. But, as we explore in this volume, they were also authors and scholars, astute business-women, sources of expressions of eroticism, priestesses with access to major gods and goddesses, and regents who exercised power on behalf of kingdoms, states, and empires.

Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks

Author : Agnete W. Lassen
Publisher : Peabody Museum (YUP)
ISBN 13 : 9781933789378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (893 download)

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Book Synopsis Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks by : Agnete W. Lassen

Download or read book Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks written by Agnete W. Lassen and published by Peabody Museum (YUP). This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning guide to the treasures housed within the Yale Babylonian Collection, presenting new perspectives on the society and culture of the ancient Near East The Yale Babylonian Collection houses virtually every genre, type, and period of ancient Mesopotamian writing, ranging from about 3000 B.C.E. to the early Christian Era. Among its treasures are tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh and other narratives, the world's oldest recipes, a large corpus of magic spells and mathematical texts, stunning miniature art carved on seals, and poetry by the first named author in world history, the princess Enheduanna. This unique volume, the companion book to an exhibition at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History, celebrates the Yale Babylonian Collection and its formal affiliation with the museum. Included are essays by world-renowned experts on the exhibition themes, photographs and illustrations, and a catalog of artifacts in the collection that present the ancient Near East in the light of present-day discussion of lived experiences, focusing on family life and love, education and scholarship, identity, crime and transgression, demons, and sickness. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (04/06/2019--06/30/2020) Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Author : Christopher Metcalf
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 164602009X
Total Pages : 413 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 413 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.

Babylonian Divinatory Texts Chiefly in the Schøyen Collection

Author : A. R. George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934309476
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis Babylonian Divinatory Texts Chiefly in the Schøyen Collection by : A. R. George

Download or read book Babylonian Divinatory Texts Chiefly in the Schøyen Collection written by A. R. George and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transliteration, translation, and commentary of new Mesopotamian divination prayers, extispicy texts, omen lists, and divinatory models. These texts extend over two millennia and come from many sites, including a previously unknown city.

Style and Form in Old-Babylonian Literary Texts

Author : Nathan Wasserman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004124042
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis Style and Form in Old-Babylonian Literary Texts by : Nathan Wasserman

Download or read book Style and Form in Old-Babylonian Literary Texts written by Nathan Wasserman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first ever modern treatment of literary theory in Babylonian literature. The volume deals with all aspects of the discipline; modes of expression, tropes, commonplaces, etc, etc.

Old Babylonian Omen Texts

Author : Albrecht Götze
Publisher : Ams PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9780404602659
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Old Babylonian Omen Texts by : Albrecht Götze

Download or read book Old Babylonian Omen Texts written by Albrecht Götze and published by Ams PressInc. This book was released on 1947 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Author : A. R. George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934309094
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection by : A. R. George

Download or read book Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection written by A. R. George and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains previously unpublished Akkadian narrative, praise, and love poetry, new prose compositions, riddles and legal prescriptions.

Babylonian Historical-Literary Texts

Author : Albert Kirk Grayson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487597851
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Babylonian Historical-Literary Texts written by Albert Kirk Grayson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1975-12-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Assyriologists were lured to Babylonian studies by the light which cuneiform text shed on ancient history and the Bible, and for later scholars this is still the attraction. The Age of Discovery is not past, and one can still read literature that has been unseen by the eyes of man for millennia. There are myriads of tablets lying in the ancient ruins of Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, waiting for the excavator's spade; in museums there are quantities of inscriptions that have not yet been made public.

Babylonian Tablets from the First Sealand Dynasty in the Schøyen Collection

Author : Stephanie Dalley
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Babylonian Tablets from the First Sealand Dynasty in the Schøyen Collection by : Stephanie Dalley

Download or read book Babylonian Tablets from the First Sealand Dynasty in the Schøyen Collection written by Stephanie Dalley and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2009 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephanie Dalley identiies, copies, and analyzes 506 Sealand dynasty tablets in the Schøyen Collection and in a Belgian private collection in this volume, providing for the first time documentation for the Sealand Dynasty, hitherto known primarily from secondary sources.

They Wrote on Clay

Author : Edward Chiera
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107486653
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book They Wrote on Clay written by Edward Chiera and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1939, this book contains an assessment of the historical evidence provided by ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets. The text is accompanied by a number of photographs of the tablets, as well as of important archaeological sites and Babylonian artefacts. Chiera's enthusiasm for his subject is clear, as the text is accessibly written and contains many Babylonian legends and assesses their relationship to biblical texts. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Assyriology and the ancient Middle East.

Ur III Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Author : Jacob L. Dahl
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 9781575067384
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (673 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 Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 488 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.

From the Mari Archives

Author : Jack M. Sasson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 157506376X
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book From the Mari Archives written by Jack M. Sasson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 40 years, Jack M. Sasson has been studying and commenting on the cuneiform archives from Mari on the Euphrates River, especially those from the age of Hammurabi of Babylon. Among Mari’s wealth of documents, some of the most interesting are letters from and to kings, their advisers and functionaries, their wives and daughters, their scribes and messengers, and a variety of military personnel. The letters are revealing and often poignant. Sasson selects more than 700 letters as well as several excerpts from administrative documents, translating them and providing them with illuminating comments. In distilling a lifetime of study and interpretation, Sasson hopes to welcome readers into a fuller appreciation of a remarkable period in Mesopotamian civilization. Sasson’s presentation is organized around major institutions in an ancient culture: (1) Kingship, treating accumulation of wealth, control of vassals, dynastic marriages, treaty-obligations, as well as illustrating the hazards and vexation of ruling a large territory; (2) Administration, from palaces that teem with bureaucrats, musicians, and cooks, to the management of provinces and vassal kingdoms; (3) Warfare, military establishment and martial practices; (4) Society, including organs of justice (and shortcuts to it), crime, punishment, and civil transactions; (5) Religion, including notices on diverse pantheons, rituals, priesthood, cultic paraphernalia, vows, ordeals, and channels to the gods (divination, dreams, and prophecy); and (6) Culture, including ethnic distinctions, class structure, and moments in the life cycle (birth, childhood, family life, health matters, death, and commemoration). Sasson’s presentation of the material brings to life a world entombed for four millennia, concretizes the realities of ancient life, and gives it a human perspective that is at once instructive and entertaining. The book is accompanied by extensive concordances and indexes (including to biblical passages) that will be useful to those who wish to study the letters more intensively.

Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues

Author : Ulrike Steinert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501504878
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues by : Ulrike Steinert

Download or read book Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues written by Ulrike Steinert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reconstruction of ancient Mesopotamian medical, ritual and omen compendia and their complex history is still characterised by many difficulties, debates and gaps due to fragmentary or unpublished evidence. This book offers the first complete edition of the Assur Medical Catalogue, an 8th or 7th century BCE list of therapeutic texts, which forms a core witness for the serialisation of medical compendia in the 1st millennium BCE. The volume presents detailed analyses of this and several other related catalogues of omen series and rituals, constituting the corpora of divination and healing disciplines. The contributions discuss links between catalogues and textual sources, providing new insights into the development of compendia between serialization, standardization and diversity of local traditions. Though its a novel corpus-based approach, this volume revolutionizes the current understanding of Mesopotamian medical texts and the healing disciplines of "conjurer" and "physician". The research presented here allows one to identify core text corpora for these disciplines, as well as areas of exchange and borrowings between them.

From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe

Author : Jacob Klein
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020979
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe written by Jacob Klein and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents first editions of a variety of cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period belonging to the collection of the late Shlomo Moussaieff. It makes available for the first time three texts representing varying levels of Mesopotamian scribal education. The first is what the authors argue is the most complete copy of the first fifty lines of the standard version of the Sumerian epic Gilgameš and the Bull of Heaven. The second is a hitherto unpublished bilingual (Sumerian-Akkadian) lexical list of unknown provenance, similar to the Proto-Aa syllabary. Each of the 314 entries preserved on this tablet provides a pronunciation gloss, a Sumerian logogram, and an Akkadian translation. A unique feature of this list is that the signs are arranged on the basis of graphic concatenation: each sign contains one of the graphic components of the preceding sign. It also yields a great number of hitherto unknown, synonymous Akkadian translations to the Sumerian logograms. The final chapter contains an edition of two groups of lenticular school tablets, containing thirty-three elementary-level scribal exercises. With this volume, Jacob Klein and Yitschak Sefati preserve and disseminate important artifacts that advance the study of Sumerian literature, Mesopotamian lexicography, and ancient Near Eastern scribal education.