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Author : Oliver Robert Gurney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : OCLC:187130756
Author : Oliver Robert Gurney
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X001670564
This eleventh volume of the Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts contains autograph copies of all 143 Akkadian and Sumerian literary texts and fragments still unpublished in the Ashmolean Museum, including a number of miscellaneous texts inscribed on the reverse of lexical texts as school exercises. Gurney provides transliterations and translations of some of the better preserved pieces, among which are an Old Babylonian hymn to Amurru, three Old Babylonian incantations, a fragment of a Babylonian state ritual, and an expository text on the cultic calendar. The text is supplemented with 45 pages of black and white illustrations of the tablets.
Author : A. R. George
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9068314106
Babylonian Topographical Texts collects for the first time all Babylonian and Assyrian texts of the first millennium B.C. that belong to what is designated the topographical genre. Much of the material is not previously published. The book is largely concerned with Babylon. Seventeen texts on this city now allow its topography to be properly understood for the first time. Another seventeen texts concern the cities of Nippur, Assur, Kish and Uruk. Also included are thirty miscellaneous texts, mostly new, which bear upon topographical matters. The text editions and translations are supplemented by a philological and topical commentary. The work is concluded with full indices, and 57 plates of cuneiform copies.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Wilfred G. Lambert,Eva Von Dassow
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : 9782503517407
Volume One: 120 ancient Mesopotamian texts from the Metropolitan Museum's extensive collection of cuneiform tablets are published here in a projected multi-volume edition. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : Albert T. Clay
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597523707
The intention of Ancient Texts and Translations (ATT) is to make available a variety of ancient documents and document collections to a broad range of readers. The series will include reprints of long out-of- print volumes, revisions of earlier editions, and completely new volumes. The understanding of ancient societies depends upon our close reading of the documents, however fragmentary, that have survived. --K. C. Hanson Series Editor
Author : Rebecca Laemmle,Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle,Katharina Wesselmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110712230
Lists and catalogues have been en vogue in philosophy, cultural, media and literary studies for more than a decade. These explorations of enumerative modes, however, have not yet had the impact on classical scholarship that they deserve. While they routinely take (a limited set of) ancient models as their starting point, there is no comparably comprehensive study that focuses on antiquity; conversely, studies on lists and catalogues in Classics remain largely limited to individual texts, and – with some notable exceptions – offer little in terms of explicit theorising. The present volume is an attempt to close this gap and foster the dialogue between the recent theoretical re-appraisal of enumerative modes and scholarship on ancient cultures. The 16 contributions to the volume juxtapose literary forms of enumeration with an abundance of ancient non-, sub- or para-literary practices of listing and cataloguing. In their different approaches to this vast and heterogenous corpus, they offer a sense of the hermeneutic, epistemic and methodological challenges with which the study of enumeration is faced, and elucidate how pragmatics, materiality, performativity and aesthetics are mediated in lists and catalogues.
Author : A. R. George,Junko Taniguchi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646021727
This book publishes 323 handcopies of cuneiform tablets found in the academic papers of W. G. Lambert (1926–2011), one of the foremost Assyriologists of the twentieth century. Prepared by A. R. George and Junko Taniguchi, it completes a two-part edition of Lambert’s previously unpublished handcopies. Written by Babylonian and Assyrian scribes in ancient Mesopotamia, the texts collected here are organized by genre and presented with a descriptive catalogue and indexes. The contents include omen literature, divinatory rituals, religious texts, a scribal parody of Babylonian scholarship, theological and religious texts, lexical lists, god lists, and a small group of miscellaneous texts of various genres. The tablets are mainly from the British Museum, but some come from museums in Baghdad, Berlin, Chicago, Geneva, Istanbul, Jerusalem, New Haven, Oxford, Paris, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Toronto, and Washington. In addition, there are copies of eight tablets whose current whereabouts are unknown. This third collection of Lambert’s handcopies published by Eisenbrauns—following Babylonian Creation Myths and Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part One—is a crucial part of the intellectual history of the field of Assyriology. In addition, many of these texts are published herein for the first time, making them a valuable and important resource for further study.
Author : Eleanor Robson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780691201405
This monumental book traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of indigenous intellectual culture in the second century BCE when cuneiform writing was gradually abandoned. Eleanor Robson offers a history like no other, examining ancient mathematics within its broader social, political, economic, and religious contexts, and showing that mathematics was not just an abstract discipline for elites but a key component in ordering society and understanding the world. The region of modern-day Iraq is uniquely rich in evidence for ancient mathematics because its prehistoric inhabitants wrote on clay tablets, many hundreds of thousands of which have been archaeologically excavated, deciphered, and translated. Drawing from these and a wealth of other textual and archaeological evidence, Robson gives an extraordinarily detailed picture of how mathematical ideas and practices were conceived, used, and taught during this period. She challenges the prevailing view that they were merely the simplistic precursors of classical Greek mathematics, and explains how the prevailing view came to be. Robson reveals the true sophistication and beauty of ancient Middle Eastern mathematics as it evolved over three thousand years, from the earliest beginnings of recorded accounting to complex mathematical astronomy. Every chapter provides detailed information on sources, and the book includes an appendix on all mathematical cuneiform tablets published before 2007.
Author : British Academy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019726302X
Volume 120 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 25 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.
Author : A. R. George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian
ISBN : 0199278415
"The Babylonian Gilgamesh epic is the oldest long poem in the world, with a history going back four thousand years. It tells the fascinating and moving story of Gilgamesh's heroic deeds and lonely quest for immortality. This book collects for the first time all the known sources in the original cuneiform, including many fragments never published before. The author's personal study of every available fragment has produced a definitive edition and translation, complete with comprehensive introductory chapters that place the poem and its hero in context."--Publisher's description.
Author : Deborah Bekken,Karen L. Wilson
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614910930
From 1923 to 1933, the Chicago Field Museum and the University of Oxford conducted archaeological excavations at the site of Kish, located on the floodplain of the Euphrates River in modern Iraq approximately 80 kilometers south of Baghdad. Over the course of ten years of work, the expedition explored seventeen different mounds both inside and outside the ancient boundaries of Kish. The finds were divided at the end of each season, with the Iraq Museum retaining half of the objects and any one-of-a-kind items and the two excavating institutions splitting the remainder. Beginning in 2004, the Field Museum undertook a reevaluation of its Kish holdings. To highlight new research and insights into the material culture from Kish and our understanding of the importance of the site to Mesopotamian archaeology, the Field Museum held a symposium in 2008 that brought together an international group of scholars who presented papers on various aspects of the ancient city. This volume, which grew out of that symposium, presents a wide array of studies on the excavated material remains from Kish, including cuneiform texts, animal figurines, human remains, lithics, figural stucco wall decorations, and more.
Author : William W. Hallo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004173811
Literature begins at Sumer, we may say. Given that this ancient crossroads of tin and copper produced not only bronze and the entire Bronze Age, but also by neccesity, the first system of record-keeping and the technique of writing. Scribal schools served to propogate the new technique and their curriculum grew to create, preserve and transmit all manner of creative poetry. In a lifetime of research, the author has studied multiple aspects of this most ancient literary oeuvre, including such questions as chronology and bilingualism, as well as contributing fundamental insights into specific genres such as proverbs, letter-prayers and lamentations. In addition, he has drawn conclusions for the comparative or contextual approach to biblical literature. His studies, widely scattered in diverse publications for nearly fifty years, are here assembled in convenient one-volume format, made more user-friendly by extensive cross-references and indices.
Author : Robert W. Rogers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597523073
'The first major collection of cuneiform texts in English' Despite its age, this volume still has a major contribution to make. Unlike other collections, Rogers's volume includes the transliterated Akkadian for each text. This provides an invaluable access to the original texts without having a library that includes every volume of the original publications. A further asset is the collection of forty-eight excellent photographs and line-drawings. Included here are tablets, prisms, cylinders, seals, boundary stones, and bas reliefs. The bibliography is composed of two parts. The first includes the entries from Rogers's ÒList of Books Quoted or Mentioned,Ó but with numerous corrections and supplying much missing data. The second part is an updated list, organized by major cuneiform languages: Diverse Collections, Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Hurrian, Eblaite, and Ugaritic. This will direct the reader to the wealth of primary documents that is now our privilege to read.
Author : Hugo Radau
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597523813
In this brilliant analysis, Radau organizes the archival and inscriptional material from c. 4500 BCE to c. 2300 BCE. The volume includes extensive transcriptions and translations of the relevant documents along with the author's historical judgments. Also included are chronological tables and lists, as well as a new Select Bibliography. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Lord of Kengi 3 Rulers of Shirpurla 4 Kings of Kish and Gishban 5 The First Dynasty of Ur 6 The Patesis of Shirpurla between Lummadur and Ur-Ba'u 7 Kings of Agade 8 The Kings of Guti and Lulubi 9 The So-called Later Patesis of Shirpurla 10 The Second Dynasty of Ur 11 Kings of Erech 12 Kings of Isin 13 The Third Dynasty of Ur 14 the Fourth Dynasty of Ur 15 The Names of the Months 16 The Sign of 'God' before Certain Proper Names 17 Appendix: The E. A. Hoffman Collection of Babylonian Clay-tablets 18 Indices
Author : Joan Goodnick Westenholz,Aage Westenholz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047408383
The cuneiform inscriptions in this volume illuminate the political, juridical, economical, and religious conditions in Babylonia around 1800 B.C.E. In particular, the large document on the daily cult in Larsa (no. 1) is unique.
