Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two

Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two
Author: A. R. George
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 164602012X

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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 liturgical texts

... Sumerian liturgical texts
Author: Stephen Langdon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1917
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

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Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two

Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two
Author: A. R. George
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1646020146

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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.

Babylonian Liturgies

Babylonian Liturgies
Author: Stephen Langdon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1913
Genre: Akkadian language
ISBN:

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Sumerian Texts from Ancient Iraq

Sumerian Texts from Ancient Iraq
Author: Benjamin Studevent-Hickman
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1937040860

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The 145 tablets presented in this volume are among a larger group of 302 tablets confiscated by U.S. customs which were being stored in a World Trade Center building when it was destroyed on 9/11. The 145 tablets, which come from an unknown site near Nippur in southern Iraq, are the documents of a high official named Aradmu that detail routine agricultural operations, including receipts and grain loans. The group was repatriated to Iraq in late 2010, after the tablets were conserved and the author had completed his study. The editions offered in this volume complete an incredible journey for the tablets and the stories they hold.