Babylonian Ceremonial Script In Its Scholarly Context

Author : Carole Roche-Hawley
Publisher : Lockwood Press
ISBN 13 : 194848840X
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book Babylonian Ceremonial Script in Its Scholarly Context written by Carole Roche-Hawley and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the advent of Assyriology in the early nineteenth century it has been known that two distinct scripts were used in ancient Mesopotamian inscriptions and documents. One, usefully characterized as "cursive," was used for the ephemeral documents of "daily life" as well as on most library and archival texts. The other was a deliberately archaizing script reserved for ceremonial use. This ceremonial script, of Babylonian origin, contained both archaic and archaizing signs, and was in productive use for over two millennia, not only in Babylonia but occasionally also in Assyria and beyond. Yet to date there has been no systematic study devoted specifically to this ceremonial script, nor any published syllabary of the archaic and archaizing signs it employs. This volume attempts to rectify this deficiency by providing a substantive introduction to Babylonian ceremonial script, along with a history of its modern study, and several case studies of how the script was actually used. The introduction is supplemented by an edition of the paleographic lists of the second and first millennia BCE, which contain pedagogical inventories of the archaic and archaizing cuneiform signs, illustrating how the ceremonial script was taught, learned and transmitted in scholarly contexts.

Author : Carole Roche
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ISBN 13 : 9781957454030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Babylonian Ceremonial Script in Its Scholarly Context written by Carole Roche and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since the advent of Assyriology in the early nineteenth century it has been known that two distinct scripts were used in ancient Mesopotamian inscriptions and documents. One, usefully characterized as "cursive," was used for the ephemeral documents of "daily life" as well as on most library and archival texts. The other was a deliberately archaizing script reserved for ceremonial use. This ceremonial script, of Babylonian origin, contained both archaic and archaizing signs, and was in productive use for over two millennia, not only in Babylonia but occasionally also in Assyria and beyond. Yet to date there has been no systematic study devoted specifically to this ceremonial script, nor any published syllabary of the archaic and archaizing signs it employs. This volume attempts to rectify this deficiency by providing a substantive introduction to Babylonian ceremonial script, along with a history of its modern study, and several case studies of how the script was actually used. The introduction is supplemented by an edition of the paleographic lists of the second and first millennia BCE, which contain pedagogical inventories of the archaic and archaizing cuneiform signs, illustrating how the ceremonial script was taught, learned and transmitted in scholarly contexts"--

Author : Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479834629
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200-900 BCE) written by Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New results and interpretations challenging the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200–900 BCE) presents select essays originating in a two-year research collaboration between New York University and Paris Sciences et Lettres. The contributions here offer new results and interpretations of the processes and outcomes of the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in three broad regions: Anatolia, northern Mesopotamia, and the Levant. Together, these challenge the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, followed by the regeneration of political powers. Current research on newly discovered or reinterpreted textual and material evidence from Western Asia instead suggests that this transition was characterized by a diversity of local responses emerging from diverse environmental settings and culture complexes, as evident in the case studies collected here in history, archaeology, and art history. The editors avoid particularism by adopting a regional organization, with the aim of identifying and tracing similar processes and outcomes emerging locally across the three regions. Ultimately, this volume reimagines the Late Bronze–Iron Age transition as the emergence of a set of recursive processes and outcomes nested firmly in the local cultural interactions of western Asia before the beginning of the new, unifying era of Assyrian imperialism.

Author : Clarence Elwood Keiser
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies, Yale University written by Clarence Elwood Keiser and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Hager
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
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Download or read book A Dissertation on the Newly Discovered Babylonian Inscriptions written by Joseph Hager and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Aaron Barton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
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Download or read book The Origin and Development of Babylonian Writing written by George Aaron Barton and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. Leo Oppenheim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617767X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Mesopotamia written by A. Leo Oppenheim and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.

Author : A. H. Sayce
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions written by A. H. Sayce and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions" by A. H. Sayce Sayce became interested in Middle Eastern languages and scripts while still a teenager. Old Persian and Akkadian cuneiform had recently been deciphered at the time and the world was interested in learning more about them. Sayce's book offered an easily-digestible guide.

Author : Sir Henry Creswicke RAWLINSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylonia and Assyria written by Sir Henry Creswicke RAWLINSON and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Tobias Clay
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
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Download or read book Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies written by Albert Tobias Clay and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: