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

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 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.

Ancient Kanesh
Ancient Kanesh

Author: Mogens Trolle Larsen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-09-17

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1107119561

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This book presents a detailed description of the political, cultural, and economic world of ancient Kanesh (present-day Kültepe, Turkey), a vibrant Bronze Age Anatolian trade outpost and the earliest attested commercial society in world history.

Economy and Society in Northern Babylonia in the Early Old Babylonian Period (ca. 2000-1800 BC)
Economy and Society in Northern Babylonia in the Early Old Babylonian Period (ca. 2000-1800 BC)

Author: Anne Goddeeris

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9789042911239

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Early Old Babylonian economy and society are analyzed in this volume. The first part presents all the relevant cuneiform documents published before 2002, about 1200 in number. As far as possible, the texts are situated in their original archival context. A short summary of the content of each of them is given and, if necessary, there is an accompanying discussion of specific problems. Each reconstructed archive is followed by a description of the activities recorded in it and by a study of its protagonists. A family tree is often added to clarify the history of the archive. In the second part of the volume, the data presented in the archival study are integrated in a comprehensive analysis of the early Old Babylonian economy. Aspects of economy, such as land and labor management, trade, crafts and credit are evaluated and situated in their specific historical context.

Babylonia under the Sealand and Kassite Dynasties
Babylonia under the Sealand and Kassite Dynasties

Author: Susanne Paulus

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-09-21

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1501510231

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Babylonia in the second half of the 2nd millennium BCE is one of the most understudied periods of Mesopotamian history. In the last few years, discoveries of new texts and archaeological materials from the Sealand Dynasty have emerged, which expand the possibilities to fill this gap in our knowledge of Mesopotamian history. At the same time, scholars have started to revive Kassite studies using new materials, methods, and questions. While those works are groundbreaking contributions to the field, many questions about the history and chronology, archaeology, economy, language of Babylonia during this period are still unsolved. This volume brings together eleven contributions by leading scholars in the Sealand and Kassite period, approaching those questions from an archaeological, ethnological, historical, linguistic, and economical point of view. The book opens with an introduction into the history and research on Babylonia under the Sealand Dynasty and the Kassites.

Aspekte des Menschseins im Alten Mesopotamien
Aspekte des Menschseins im Alten Mesopotamien

Author: Ulrike Steinert

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-02-17

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9004226141

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Being the first monographic study of this kind in the field of Assyriology, this book comprises an investigation of Ancient Mesopotamian concepts of the human person. Concentrating on Akkadian cuneiform texts from the 2nd and 1st millennium BC, the author examines the characteristics and attributes attached to human beings and the notions of the person as a composite being through a semantic analysis of Akkadian terms for the body, body parts and aspects of the self, which can be termed "souls". Through an examination of a wide range of textual sources and an interdisciplinary approach, this study shows that the Mesopotamian views of personhood share amazing similarities with those of the neighbouring ancient cultures, but often differ from our own. “...in short, as a piece of modern Assyriological scholarship it is very well done and a tribute to its author’s capabilities and accomplishments.” Benjamin R. Foster, Yale University

The Material and Ideological Base of the Old Babylonian State
The Material and Ideological Base of the Old Babylonian State

Author: Lukáš Pecha

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1498559883

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This book describes and analyzes the economic and administrative structure as well as the ideological background of the Old Babylonian state during the rule of the first dynasty. The author focuses on the role of the state in the economy, administration, politics, and ideology.