Selected Sumerian And Babylonian Texts
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Selected Sumerian And Babylonian Texts
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Author : Henry Frederick Lutz
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2017-01-30
Selected Sumerian And Babylonian Texts written by Henry Frederick Lutz and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-30 with History categories.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Letters From Mesopotamia Official Business And Private Letters On Clay Tablets From Two Millennia
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Author : A. Leo Oppenheim
language : en
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1967
Letters From Mesopotamia Official Business And Private Letters On Clay Tablets From Two Millennia written by A. Leo Oppenheim and has been published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Social Science categories.
The Sumerians
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Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-09-17
The Sumerians written by Samuel Noah Kramer and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-17 with History categories.
“A readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture” from a world-renowned Sumerian scholar (American Journal of Archaeology). The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. “An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity.” —Library Journal
Road To Babylon
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Author : Meade
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-06-26
Road To Babylon written by Meade and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-26 with Religion categories.
Akkadian Royal Letters In Later Mesopotamian Tradition
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Author : Mary Frazer
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-06-17
Akkadian Royal Letters In Later Mesopotamian Tradition written by Mary Frazer and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-17 with History categories.
Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Mespotamian Tradition reconsiders the question of the authenticity of the letters attributed to earlier royal correspondents that were studied in Assyrian and Babylonian scribal centres ca. 700–100 BCE. By scrutinizing the letters’ contents, language, possible transmission histories ca. 1400–100 BCE and the epistemic limitations of authenticity criticism, the book grounds scepticism about the letters’ authenticity in previously undiscussed features of the texts. It also provides a new foundation for research into the related questions of when and why these beguiling texts were composed in the first place.
Old Babylonian Texts In The Sch Yen Collection Part Two
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Author : A. R. George
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2019-07-01
Old Babylonian Texts In The Sch Yen Collection Part Two written by A. R. George and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-01 with History categories.
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 Sch Yen Collection
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Author : Christopher Metcalf
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2019-07-01
Sumerian Literary Texts In The Sch Yen Collection written by Christopher Metcalf and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-01 with History categories.
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.
The Literature Of Ancient Sumer
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Author : Jeremy A. Black
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006
The Literature Of Ancient Sumer written by Jeremy A. Black and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Collections categories.
Sumerian is the oldest written language of ancient Iraq, first written down some 5,000 years ago. Its literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, proverbs and love poetry, provides a stimulating insight into the world's first urban civilization. This is a comprehensive collection.
Diagnoses In Assyrian And Babylonian Medicine
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Author : Jo Ann Scurlock
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Diagnoses In Assyrian And Babylonian Medicine written by Jo Ann Scurlock and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with History categories.
To date, the pathbreaking medical contributions of the early Mesopotamians have been only vaguely understood. Due to the combined problems of an extinct language, gaps in the archeological record, the complexities of pharmacy and medicine, and the dispersion of ancient tablets throughout the museums of the world, it has been nearly impossible to get a clear and comprehensive view of what medicine was really like in ancient Mesopotamia. The collaboration of medical expert Burton R. Andersen and cuneiformist JoAnn Scurlock makes it finally possible to survey this collected corpus and discern magic from experimental medicine in Ashur, Babylon, and Nineveh. Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine is the first systematic study of all the available texts, which together reveal a level of medical knowledge not matched again until the nineteenth century A.D. Over the course of a millennium, these nations were able to develop tests, prepare drugs, and encourage public sanitation. Their careful observation and recording of data resulted in a description of symptoms so precise as to enable modern identification of numerous diseases and afflictions.
Babylonians
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Author : H. W. F. Saggs
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000
Babylonians written by H. W. F. Saggs and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Babylon stands with Athens and Rome as a cultural ancestor of western civilization. It was founded by the people of ancient Mesopotamia, who settled in the fertile crescent between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers before the fourth millennium b.c. Some of the earliest experiments in agriculture and irrigation, the invention of writing, the birth of mathematics and the development of urban life all began there. Biblical associations are also numerous, from Nineveh to the Tower of Babel and the Flood. In Babylonians, H. W. F. Saggs describes the ebb and flow in the successive fortunes of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Amorites, and Babylonians who flourished in this region. Using evidence from pottery, cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, early architecture and metallurgy, he illuminates the myths, religion, languages, trade, politics, and warfare--as well as the legacy--of the Babylonians and their predecessors. During the twentieth century, collaboration by archaeologists from many nations has greatly increased the range of archaeological evidence, while work by linguists has gradually unlocked the secrets of the thousands of clay tablets recovered from the area. Today the historical record for some periods of ancient Mesopotamia is substantially better than for some centuries of Europe in the Christian era. Gaps and uncertainties remain, but Babylonians conveys a rich and fascinating picture of the development of this remarkable civilization from before the beginning of the third millennium b.c.