Ancient knowledge networks : a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia
| 1. Verfasser: |
Robson, Eleanor 1969-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London :
UCL Press,
2019.
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| Ausgabe: | First piblished |
| Umfang/Format: |
xxiv, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
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| Parallelausgabe: |
Ancient knowledge networks (Online version) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Bibliographical abbreviations; Museum and excavation sigla; Dating conventions; Editorial conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. From 'Ashurbanipal's Library' and the 'stream of tradition' to new approaches to cuneiform scholarship; 3. Trust in Nabu? Assyrian royal attitudes to court scholarship; 4. The writing-board was at my house: Scholarly and textual mobility in seventh-century Assyria; 5. Grasping the righteous sceptre: Nabu, scholarship and the kings of Babylonia 6. At the gate of Eanna: Babylonian scholarly spaces before and after the early fifth century7. Conclusions: Towards a social geography of cuneiform scholarship; Bibliography; Index
